Role models are important.
A Tory MP has linked young men turning to crime to women playing traditionally male roles in TV and film.
Nick Fletcher said “female replacements” in shows like Doctor Who were robbing boys of good role models.
The only characters they had to look up to were gangsters the Krays and Tommy Shelby from Peaky Blinders, he said.
“Is there any wonder we are seeing so many young men committing crime?,” he asked MPs taking part in a debate on International Men’s Day.
His comments were met with surprise by Labour Party chair Anneliese Dodds, who said she thought she had “misheard” him.
The reason boys turned to a life of crime was “far more complex” than “who should be the next 007”, she added.
Well, yes, it is more complex. However, the constant underlying message is that white men are bad. Keep hammering that message home even on a subliminal level and what do you expect? That said, with the wokerati, it isn’t even subliminal.
But later, Mr Fletcher tweeted a statement, saying his “rather nuanced point” that there were “increasingly fewer male role models for young boys” had been “misconstrued”.
Well, there’s a surprise.
It has been misconstrued by the usual woke assholes, but I’m sure most people perfectly understand and agree with him.
As he said, a nuanced comment was entirely misconstrued to build the usual strawman.
Also in any mixed group on TV, the male will be the dummy.
Somehow or other he manages to have a well paid responsible job and afford a spacious detached house in London yet when he comes home, as soon as he crosses the threshold he becomes a pompous blundering idiot. This goes way back to Terry and June, then My Family and now Friday Night Dinner. Plus many others.
P.S. I do / did not watch these.
I see it now on police/crime/detective drama.
The dumb plod is male, the smart officer is a suitable other.
An exception to this being a recent one McDonald and Dodds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_&_Dodds#:~:text=McDonald%20&%20Dodds%20is%20a%20British%20crime%20drama,Season%202%20began%20airing%20on%2028%20February%202021.
The eccentric middle aged white male being the one who solves the crimes. It’s amusing precisely because it goes against the general flow.
Doonhamer, when I grew up there were loads of positive male role models ranging from my own father, other male relatives and copious examples in the media of men doing the right and moral thing. These were everything and anything from WWII movies, through John Noakes engaging in acts of derring do and even cartoons such as Scooby Do that showed men protecting women. Fast forward to today and you have a character like Daddy Pig who seems to be in the show to be the fall guy and the archetypal idiot. Yes the wokeists have failed, possibly deliberately, to see the nuance in what this MP said but he’s correct. Without decent and commendable male role models being available for male children, then more and more boys will go off the rails and choose role models that are dangerously unsuitable.
Do TV shows really have that much influence? Maybe my lack of interest in such shows give me a skewed view on the matter.
I believe a constant drip drip drip of both negative male role models in the media and the portrayal of male characters as idiots, must have some effect and not a good one.
See also television adverts.
Sort of like this …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULIHjFy-eUo&t=3s
If you constantly tell boys that everything bad in the world is due to them, women are superior, the future is female and there is no place in society for them, then why should they have any interest in conforming to the morals of society and take part in it?
White man bad? Biden is about as bad as it gets in the real world but the wonderfully diverse “woman of colour” who is a strained fart away from the big chair?
Enter nightmare of choice!!!!
Sorry peeps. White men built the world that we know, however unpleasant and unacceptable – that abracababra of the woke – this fact may be, it is the truth.
You can replace white men with whatever you want in the fantasy world of advertising or film, but in the real world there are consequences. Your controlled media can only cover up so much.
Given all the wondrously competent, spiritually and morally pure paragons of diverse gender and pronoun compliance we see portrayed, pursuing their arcs of sustainability towards the diverse nirvana that awaits us, I’m at a loss to understand why they can’t do this in the real world.
A thought occurred to me, the repair shop has positive role models. There are male and female specialist restorers and repairers demonstrating amazing skills. Often the people that bring in their items to be fixed have stories of fathers or grandfathers who have lived life well and, in some cases, have done heroic things. I’m not sure how many young people watch it but I would think that it has pretty broad appeal.
True. It’s not a bad programme, that.