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<\/p>\nA BBC weather presenter has slammed the ‘weather girl’ stereotype after her bottom was given its own online fan club.<\/p>\n
Sam Fraser, who has worked as a stand-in presenter for BBC South Today since 2012, said she was initially flattered by the attention but it quickly became tiresome.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘I had no idea that, within a fortnight of my first appearance, my bottom would have an online fan club and I’d feature on a social media channel entitled Babes of Britain,’ she told Radio Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘At first, I’ll admit, I was flattered\u2026but a little dive into the discussions about me \u2013 my chubby arms, muscular calves and other anatomical observations \u2013 soon put paid to that.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ms Fraser said she was shocked by how ‘fetishised’ the idea of the ‘weather girl’ had become when she looked the term up online.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Sam Fraser said she was initially flattered by comments about her appearance but they quickly became tiresome<\/p>\n
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Ms Fraser\u00a0has worked as a stand-in presenter for BBC South Today since 2012. She is also a stand-up comedian\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘It took me to parts of the internet I hadn’t known existed. It opened my eyes to a world of casual sexism and misogyny that is the continuing legacy of the term,’ she said.<\/p>\n
‘The ”weather girl” as an object of desire is a tenacious and dangerous stereotype. As long as the term is in use, it contributes to a culture of permission to demean, humiliate and objectify.’<\/p>\n
The BBC presenter is also a comedian and explored the phrase in 2018 Edinburgh Fringe show, Stand Up, Weather Girl!\u00a0<\/p>\n
She’s now investigating it further a in new Radio 4 documentary, Scorchio! The Story of the Weather Girl.<\/p>\n
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