Where Do You Draw The Line?

[DeeLicious]

On TVs Good Morning Britain earlier, stand-in weather presenter Lucy Verasamy was wearing a knee-length denim dress. She said she was worried it might shrink in the rain, to which Richard Madeley said: “I think you should go outside right away and test it out!” I saw that as pretty harmless, but can imagine the PC brigade thinking otherwise. What's your opinion?

[naomi24]

ummmm, not just TV, it's across the board. Everyone is expected to pussyfoot for fear of causing offence. I read recently of a woman complaining of 'sexism' or something like that because a man asked her out for a drink.

[ummmm]

Then she needs to get a grip, Naomi. If anyone is that sensitive they really should stay home!

[douglas9401]

I don't think we can use 'pussyfoot' any more Naomi. :-)

[Old_Geezer]

Use "paw" ?

[SurreyGuy]

But it's OK for the females on programmes such as Loose Women to *** off/letch and make inappropriate remarks about guys??!! DOUBLE STANDARDS!!

[jackthehat]

I don't think Loose Women should be indicative of.....well, anything.

It's an awful programme and to my mind ought to have been shelved years ago when it started to morph into the shoddy mess it now is.

[ummmm]

Lol...I quite like Loose Women :-)

[jno]

That’s what Loose Women is for. it’s not what Good Morning Britain is for.

[steg]

Aye so do I

[jackthehat]

It used to be a good 'magazine-type' programme; talking about health and social issues in a structured and informed way.
Now it, too often, turns into a 'chat-mag' programme with the presenters airing their own trials and tribulations.....

ITV could balance things out by shelving Loose Women AND Richard Madeley at the same time! :o)

[douglas9401]

Ms Verasamy brings on a welcome warm front for me.

[Hopkirk]

Metoo Douglas

[andy-hughes]

I have always maintained the same consistent view about giving and taking offence.

If a comment is made with the intention of upsetting, or embarrassing the recipient, then the speaker should be called out for it.

If the comment is made, and more importantly received, as acceptable, then it is not for others to leap in and take offence on the recipient's behalf.

If a comment is made in jest, but not received as such, then it is beholden on the speaker to accept their error and apologise -not accuse the recipient of being devoid of a sense of humour.

Clearly on the basis of those points, offence was neither intended or received, so no issue here at all.

[vernonk]

Andy Hughes, The Answerbank’s very own Judge Rinder giving his verdicts

[andy-hughes]

vernonk - // Andy Hughes, The Answerbank’s very own Judge Rinder giving his verdicts //

Everything I post on here is an opinion, nothing more, unless I know it to be a fact, in which case I say so.

I'm not academic enough to be a judge, even a pretend one!!

[vernonk]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5553003/Richard-Madeley-makes-pervy-comment-weather-girl-introducing-feature-GMB.html

[andy-hughes]

vernnok - You can always rely on the Mail to jump on the bandwagon.

Richard Madeley occasionally makes inappropriate comments, and is correctly called out for them.

For Twitter users to assume that is comment was timed before a MeToo discussion is to assume far too much on his behalf in terms of his timing - he has none! Mr Madeley says what comes into his brain, and then deals with the consequences afterwards, and he is far from alone in that.

As for the Mail criticising anyone for sexism, their level of hypocrisy is beyond the stratosphere, when you check out the sidebar of its website any hour of the day or night.

[Ellipsis]

> Loose Women

I think the clue to what this programme is all about is in the name.

> Metoo Douglas

You missed out the hashtag - but an amusing repurposing!

> You can always rely on the Mail to jump on the bandwagon

My earlier picture of Ms Verasamy in a bikini was from the Mail so, to be fair to them, I think they're driving the bandwagon.