Dykes on bikes

[2Loose]

Gill and his editor are both tw*nts. No society should let offensive comments like those outside of their own heads, let alone into a news paper.

The Clarkson analogy was way off the mark too. Clarkson is derided directly, but the comments in her direction were broadly done to offend all lesbians. Probably deliberately. Shame that such a 'lad' writes for that paper.

 

[darkstar]

That is such BS that I cannot bring myself to answer it this side of P&L

Oh I know, was searching for an argument, this was scraping the barrel though, I admit

 

[snapper_37]

I didn't know Clare Balding was gay.

Yee of little gaydar......

She certainly wouldn't have had to ring the bell to get into a Ladies Only club in the 80's

As I self proclaimed lezzer, who is not offended by the term dyke, Mr Gill esquire is a cock of the highest order.

 

[Over The Hill]

Good to see Gill had had his knuckles rapped over this one now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11333484

"Sports presenter Clare Balding's official complaint over an article in the Sunday Times that mocked her sexuality has been upheld.

In July, she complained to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) over AA Gill's review of her new TV show, in which he called her a "dyke on a bike".

The paper defended its columnist on freedom of expression grounds.

The PCC ruled that some of the words were used in a "demeaning and gratuitous way"."

 

[Ravenbait]

I cheered.

Sam

 

[pepecat]

Good news!

 

[dellzeqq]

well, sort of. I expect he'll frame the judgment and put it on his mantelpiece.

Gill, like Clarkson and O'Leary have worked out that there is a market for twunts. Clarkson is the master of this - he's traded being a twunt (actually a twunt tweaked by self-deprecation and self-doubt) for an absolute fortune. Gill, like Giles Coren, craves money, and realising that his only talent is twuntery is determined to make the most of it.

What Gill is really like is neither here nor there - he represents a brutish facet of british masculinity that, in less wordy form, throws up on street corners on Friday night (I almost wrote 'gets in to fights on street corners on Friday night, but thought better of it). It's juvenile, it's out-dated, it's a bit pathetic, but that's really the worst of it. If you don't read what he writes then you'll not be offended by it, and it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that Gill's coarsening of public life compares in any way with the effects of advertising or pornography.

I'm afraid I thought Clare Balding's prog was dull. I love her sports work, and think she's a sharp interviewer, but the camerawork on this job was all a bit CTC-goes-to-Rugby for the day, and the voice stuff was repetitious.