CRISIS IN MASCULINITY ? WHAT TWADDLE !

The BBC makes a programme which it calls "The Big Questions" in which presenter Nicky Campbell acts as the facilitator for a group of presumably specially selected panellists. Today's edition posed a pretty ridiculous, not to say pretentious, question "Is there a crisis in masculinity ?"

This is not a programme that I usually watch but today I decided to give it a go - big mistake. The studio panel seemed to be comprised of, on the one hand, people who don't like either being men or simply don't like men, and on the other by men who had either little to contribute or had some pretty weird and extreme views. There didn't seem to be a normal man amongst the lot of them,, barring one who did actually say that he couldn't really understand the twaddle that was being discussed.

I gave up watching this rubbish after 30 minutes or so and I won't be wasting my time in this way again. However, for what it's worth and in case Mr Campbell is still trying to answer his own  question, there is no crisis in masculinity. What there is, is a media obsession with sexuality, 'equality' and the terrible way that men have supposedly treated women over the ages. This garbage has, of course, been hyped up by a mixture of left wing feminist, lesbians and man-haters, with assorted homosexuals and others who claim to have 'gender issues' or problems with 'identification', jumping on the bandwagon.

For some reason that I fail to comprehend, our political representatives have fallen in line with this nonsense and we now all have to fall over backwards to pretend that men and women are 'equal', whatever that may mean, that homosexuality is a 'normal' activity and it's perfectly reasonable for people to 'identify' with a gender other than that with which they were born. The misdeeds of a very few men of dubious character, such as Harvey Weinstein, have been used to justify branding all men as rapists, paedophiles and worse, with the result that men are now more oppressed than women have ever been. Men are now routinely discriminated against and have to think very carefully before making any remark, or carrying out any action, to which 1 women in a thousand may object. The world has gone mad, with fact and truth replaced by a type of Orwellian approach which imposes a perverted form of language and logic on us.

Today's programme did nothing to identify any supposed crisis in masculinity although it did expose the highly confused views of at least several of the panellists. For the vast majority of people, men are men and women are women; they get on with their lives much as men and women have done for many years without suffering any crises of identity. The only people who are in crisis are the man-haters who simply can't come to terms with the facts of the real world of ordinary men and women.

Why the BBC gives a voice to these messed up loonies and wastes our money on such appalling programmes is the real 'Big Question'.