Marieke Elsinga was embarrassed at the presentation of the Golden RadioRing prizes. She was there, in front of an entire room full of colleagues, called names ‘angry, white woman’.
Like many other prizes, the Golden RadioRing prize has now become gender neutral, which means that separate statuettes are no longer awarded to men and women. As a result, only men won prizes on Thursday and that is what Marieke Elsinga was already a bit afraid of.
Marieke is bummed
Marieke does not think it is a good development. She believes that novice media women need figureheads and making the radio price gender neutral does not contribute to this in her opinion.
The Qmusic presenter says in front of the RTL Boulevard camera: “I keep saying: make a separate prize for women and a separate prize for men, so that we have at least three radio women in the spotlight every year.”
Angry white woman
Many female colleagues are in Marieke’s camp, such as Willemijn Veenhoven and Nellie Benner, but there are also radio ladies who are for a gender-neutral price, such as Mischa Blok.
NPO Radio 1 voice Jo van Egmond also belongs to that group. She entered the stage during the award ceremony and delivered a mean sneer to Marieke in front of a room full of colleagues.
“When the word gender neutrality comes up, there’s always an angry white man standing up and muttering something about lost rights, but this time it wasn’t an angry white man, but an angry white woman. Looking at youMary!”
“Disagree”
Jo’s attack is striking. “I understand what you are saying (cheering in the audience for Marieke, ed.) And I hear more women saying that, but I’m going to say that I disagree (booing in the audience for Jo, ed.). In fact, I think we as women should stop saying that we need role models as women.”
Media connoisseur Rob Goossens thinks Jo is mean. “I was very surprised by Jo van Egmond’s plea, who pretended that role models are pointless. “
In the sun
Role models are very important, according to Rob. “It is very clear that if you send lawyers to neighborhoods with low-educated people, then suddenly the eyes of children are opened, who thought: but apparently you can become a lawyer. That is of course also the case with radio DJs.”
He concludes: “If you have few female radio DJs for whatever reason, I don’t think it’s at all strange that you say: we’re going to put the women in the spotlight separately.”
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The fragment from RTL Boulevard:
