Panda BBC Faces of the Year 2011 women Tian Tian Sweetie vs Kim Kardashian OUTRAGE SEXIST SEXISM
THE BBC has defended its decision to name a panda among the 12 women in its Faces of 2011 as "a light-hearted addition" to the list. PANDAGATE pandagate Sweetie, who is one of a pair of pandas newly installed at Edinburgh Zoo, joins 11 other notable names on the BBC list including shot US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and singer Adele. A BBC spokeswoman said: "Including Sweetie as one of the annual headline makers was a light-hearted addition to the list, and this isn't the first time it has featured a non-human. In 2009, Benson the Carp, a much-caught giant fish, was August's entry on the male list and last year Peppa the Pig was on the female list for April." The BBC came under fire last month after its shortlist for the Sports Personality of the Year award did not include any women. MPs accused the BBC of "ignoring women's achievements" in 2011 by choosing an all-male shortlist. The BBC's inclusion of a panda as one of the 12 "Faces of the year 2011 - the women" has caused an outrage. The list published Wednesday included Tian Tian, also known as Sweetie, one of two giant pandas on loan from China to the Edinburgh zoo, for December. The women representing each of the other 11 months of the year are people, as are all the 12 men on the BBC's male faces list published Monday. Freelance journalist Bob Chaundy, whose name appears at the bottom of the BBC's webpage, told the Guardian newspaper of London that he agreed the panda it was an odd choice but that the selection <b>...</b>
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