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Family Feud answers under fire

Updated: TEN apologises for "ill-advised" questions, that should not have been included in Family Feud.

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2014-10-16_0051It’s supposed to be good old-fashioned fun by Family Feud has come under fire for Wednesday’s episode in which host Grant Denyer asked contestants to “name a woman’s job.”

Social media has branded the answers “misogynistic,” according to Fairfax media.

The 100 answers stacked up as:

Cooking 28
Cleaning 17
Nursing 13
Hairdressing 7
Domestic Duties 5
Dishes 4
Receptionist 4
Washing Clothes 3

It was a young female contestant who gave the first answer, “Cooking.” She later suggested “Ironing.”

One young male added, “Vacuuming.”

Asked to name a man’s job, the top responses were as follows:

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It’s a disappointing outcome given the show’s Executive Producer Pam Barnes is female and TEN is the only Free to Air Network with a female Chief Programming Officer, Beverley McGarvey.

While the show can’t be blamed for skewing the responses the question is probably whether it was a good idea to include it in the first place.

The US version of Feud, and to some extent the Australian one, have made much of the awkward question / responses from contestants under the game show gun. But in this segment there didn’t appear to be much funny business going on.

Thoughts…?

UPDATE: Network Ten has since apologised:

“Network Ten apologises for including two questions relating to what people think is a man’s job and a woman’s job in the episode of Family Feud which aired last night,” the statement read.

“The questions were ill advised and should not have been included in the show.

“The survey results are determined by 100 people and we understand they are not reflective of all Australians.”

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  1. Also really enjoy what Denyer has done with a classic game show format. Never warmed to him on 7 but he’s doing a great job hosting Family Feud – much better than Bert. Hasn’t been a decent version since Rob Brough back in the 90’s.

  2. If you’re going to call the female version sexist than you must also call the male version sexist or you’re being sexist. Storm in a tea cup. It’s ok I guess for taking the bin out or mowing to be a “man’s job”. If you’re aim is equality for the sexes you can’t have it both ways.

    In the end it was just a bit of light hearted fun.

  6. It boils down to casual, comfortable sexism.

    To those who say ‘it’s just a show’ or ‘there are worse things going on in the world’ or even, ‘so what?’ you’re adding to the casual, comfortable sexism of Australia in 2014.

  7. The question wasn’t “what is a woman’s job”. It was “name something people *think* is a woman’s job”. Of course the contestants would jump to the stereotypes. They were trying to win the game.

  9. “you don’t really want to give kids these impressions (that women only cook or clean)”. Well, best way to give the ‘correct’ impressions is for mummy to start mowing the lawn and fixing things, while daddy does the vacuuming and washing.
    This was a Fairfax beatup? Thought it more likely a News Corp. paper.
    This is the problem when you take surveys. Don’t always get the answers you want.
    As for “misogynistic”, which means “reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women” – please spend less time on anti-social media, or at least use words that you know the meaning of.

  12. It’s a fun show. I thought I’d hate it, but got sucked into it. And it probably more intelligent than the news offerings on 7 & 9. What’s with the vendetta?

  14. “The US version of Feud, and to some extent the Australian one, have made much of the awkward question / responses from contestants under the game show gun”

    That’s because Grant is no Steve.

  15. They aren’t even stereotypical. If you look at the ABS statistics women do much more domestic work than men. It is the truth that people are objecting to.

    Childcare worker and primary school teacher would have topped the list of female occupations if the sample had read the ABS labour stats broken down by gender. Construction, trades and IT are still mostly male occupations.

  18. Stereotype answers are misogyny?

    My goodness people don’t understand the word. They throw it out there to look clever, yet they’ve no idea what misogyny is.

    I don’t see people complaining that building is the top answer for men. Social media complaining for the point of complaining.

  19. I think it’s a storm in a teacup. It was a question posed to a survey of 100 people. It was handled well after the first question about male jobs and I think it’s fine. No one in our house batted an eyelid, in fact, we laughed at the responses as in our house, the gender roles are mixed.

  20. Great questions and great responses.

    I showed them to my wife this morning at 0530 before she headed off out to her full time job. Her response was….”if you don’t get the dishes done, the cleaning done, daughter to school and my dinner on the table when I get in, I will cut your effing allowance”

    No messing with nurse unit managers eh?

    Better get on with my chores

  21. I think surely someone in the production crew would have the common sense to omit this question.

    For a family show – there are kids watching and you don’t really want to give kids these impressions (that women only cook or clean) that they may carry with them later on in life.

    I just thought we were past that in this day and age, Channel 10 prove me wrong.

  24. I did see this ep, and recall the question being more along the lines of what do people think of as a woman’s job; a subtle difference from ‘name a woman’s job’ (which i dont think it was worded that way). Also in defence of the program, the male version of the question was also asked in another round. I thought it was all about perception rather than reality in regards to masculine and feminine jobs or roles.

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