"Michael Buerk, the veteran BBC presenter, was dismissed as a "poor, miserable old bat" and "eccentric" by female colleagues yesterday after he delivered a tirade about the dominance of women in society.
Buerk, former newsreader on The Nine O'Clock News, complained that men were little more than
"sperm donors" in a feminised society in which most of the important jobs - including at the BBC - had gone to women.
As most of the BBC executives to which he was referring were taking time off from world domination by being on holiday yesterday, it was left to other prominent women at the corporation to refute his claims.
"He's bonkers. He's a dear old-fashioned chauvinist of the first order," said Anna Ford, one of the corporation's first women newsreaders.
"Poor, miserable old bat. What he ought to be saying is how nice it is to have women around the office. He's never seen the point of women in positions of seniority. There's no hope for him."
Obviously the silly season.
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