Should This Pundit Have Been Fired?

[bad company]

This sort of language has been used for years but I guess times change:-

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.lincolnshireliv...

[SS2.]

Pulled up for using the terms 'handbags' and 'drama queen' - great example of the BBC pandering to keep a few snowflakes happy.

I'm not at all surprised at the (ever worsening) BBC, but it does sadden me to read he's been disciplined for that.

[Matt_E_Mulsion]

What a load of old waffle, what has the world come too? It's hardly crime of the century.

[ReallyReallyGood]

People should stop getting their knickers in a twist over such language.

[V40TC]

The BBC are going to self destruct
and not before time.
one example after another keeps appearing.

[bad company]

V40TC said:

The BBC are going to self destruct
and not before time.
one example after another keeps appearing.

Last week it was referring to ‘Fisherpeople’.

[10126 Torino]

Maybe all pundits should be on a 10 second time delay to remove any dodgy old insults for the sensitive

souls of the 21st century .

[vixen1700]

Like the comment about the moaning MP and the bondage pictures on his PC. Hope that's true.

[irocfan]

Quite pathetic tbh - agreed to undergo voluntary retraining

[stuartmmcfc]

I don’t think “handbags’ and “drama Queen” are sexist to women.
In this “inclusive” era surely we shouldn’t forget the gays?

[Drezza]

Sadly, I'm not even surprised anymore...

[bad company]

stuartmmcfc said:

I don’t think “handbags’ and “drama Queen” are sexist to women.
In this “inclusive” era surely we shouldn’t forget the gays?

Hardly any women (other than the serially offended) would have a problem with either of those terms.

[ReallyReallyGood]

“Hardly any” is still too many. No-one should be expected to suffer the mental anguish of being offended any more.

[motorizer]

Had he been informed in advance that these time honoured examples of classic pundit speak were now unacceptable?

Or did they move the goalposts without telling him?

[vixen1700]

motorizer said:

Or did they move the jumpers for goalposts without telling him?

FTFY

[irocfan]

motorizer said:

Had he been informed in advance that these time honoured examples of classic pundit speak were now unacceptable?

Or did they move the goalposts without telling him?

I did read that he had been warned previously for not using the correct language

[General Price]

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/en...

[Pugaris]

SS2. said:

Pulled up for using the terms 'handbags' and 'drama queen' - great example of the BBC pandering to keep a few snowflakes happy.

I'm not at all surprised at the (ever worsening) BBC, but it does sadden me to read he's been disciplined for that.

He also said "he’d have been better wearing a skirt" which is an obviously sexist remark.

Understandable that someone would find it tough to stop themselves saying a phrase common growing up - I still call things 'gay' in my head and default to homophobic insults (internally, learned to stop them coming out) and I'm a queer man. But "he'd have been better off wearing a skirt" is more indicitive of a mindset that is misogynistic than the other 2 imo.

Regardless, the BBC doesn't want outdated terms used in their commentary. If a freelancer is not capable of checking themselves, why not get rid of them and replace them with someone who does?

[General Price]

Pugaris said:

He also said "he’d have been better wearing a skirt" which is an obviously sexist remark.

Understandable that someone would find it tough to stop themselves saying a phrase common growing up - I still call things 'gay' in my head and default to homophobic insults (internally, learned to stop them coming out) and I'm a queer man. But "he'd have been better off wearing a skirt" is more indicitive of a mindset that is misogynistic than the other 2 imo.

Regardless, the BBC doesn't want outdated terms used in their commentary. If a freelancer is not capable of checking themselves, why not get rid of them and replace them with someone who does?

There is nothing more outdated than the BBC.