Evening, how is the the 2nd already?!
Anyway, it’s Monday, let’s see what the feed has in store for us.
OK, I’ve got my gum shield in for this one as I’m not totally sure I can explain what’s going on here, but I’ll try. Ok firstly my understanding as of this date is that there isn’t anything proved here yet and I’m fairly sure the accusations are of him just being a bit of a twat and saying stupid shit, acting stupid in the workplace. I think I heard something about him thrusting his hips near someone’s head when they were bent over, and getting changed on set instead of his dressing room - Now, I’m happy to be corrected on that if he turns out to be the second coming of Huw Edwards, but for the moment it appears he’s just been a 1970’s man in a post millenium world. I’ll also add that I’m not defending him and genuinely couldn’t give a shit about him, we already know he’s a turd - do you remember when he became a meme earlier in the year when he gave that ‘day in the life’ interview where he basically threw a tantrum about having to spend time with his son he didn’t want, when he’d rather be playing a computer game? Yeah, diamond geezer. What’s happening in the post above doesn’t have anything to do with that. I think this is a combination of timing, an expendable personality, the apparent mildness of the ‘offenses’ and the general anti longhouse zeitgeist we see slowly entering the mainstream. Cancel culture as a thing is done, it no longer has any power, people are tired of it. But as is the way now, the public are way ahead of the ‘mainstream media’ who live in their metro-elite bubble, they haven’t got the message yet. I’m unsure why after 13 years this contestant has now come out with these complaints about him (note that he was just a part of it, her complaint was also about a ‘toxic environment’ not limited to him). I remain happy to be corrected, but I’d wager this has been in someone’s pocket a very long time and something has happened behind the scenes with Wallace to have this go public. As I’ve previously said, it sounds like he’s basically just a bit creepy and hasn’t got the memo the rest of his industry did about male/female professional interactions. As is predictable (and this is part of what we’re going to get to) once one story appears, so follow many others of varying ‘severity’. In his ill advised response video he said the accusers were ‘middle class women of a certain age’, deviating from the correct response to internet pile ons which is never apologise, never explain. Where this all links to the above and what ‘the internet’ is trying to get at, is this completely fake reality that has been enforced on men and women progressively over the past 30 odd years, but really ramped up in the last 10. The idea that we (men and women) are to become sexless drones when we enter a professional environment and anything deviating from that is the worst thing in the world - To be clear, do I think it’d be better if the workplace was like that, yeah, is that reality and natural, no. Men and women have not changed in those 30 odd years. They still find each other attractive, they still enjoy flirting, they still enjoy knowing someone finds them attractive, they will still use their sexuality to gain advantage if they think they can - this is just human nature. But we have to pretend this isn’t true and it is generally men who will see the sharp end of this due to the dynamics of romantic communication that the sexes find attractive in each other. Women typically want the man to make the first move as it displays two things, confirmation of attraction and confidence. It is a turn off for the man to not be capable of this. Both sexes are in a pickle here, the woman can’t really approach as that may be seen as uncouth for her. The man cannot approach because he may get Gregg’d, but both *know* there’s an attraction, that is a primitive thing we can sense. But because they’re in the workplace they cannot act on their attraction, so are destined to a life of loneliness (it can feel like that in this disconnected world) because RULES. Now, are workplace romances ideal, nope, don’t shit where you eat. But that can be easier said than done when you can feel a genuine connection and after all, in some respects the workplace is where you will get to know people best, you probably know your co-workers far better than your neighbours or certainly through interactions on a dating app. So how does this connect to Mastertwat becoming a meme… again? Because the internet is insane and couldn’t give a shit about him either. They know he’s a turd, he’s expendable, so they will use his image to send a message that it’s time to return to a more grown up time when we all acknowledge that this stuff happens, it isn’t ideal at all, but it’s not traumatic to hear a shit joke or to have someone flirt with you when you’re not interested and most people are really tired of hearing about it. This kind of thing happens a lot less when the individual being creepy doesn’t have a head like a circumsized penis, it’s 50 Shades Of Grey syndrome. Make ‘Mr Grey’ a Deliveroo Rider you met in Weatherspoons and suddenly getting tied up and beat with a belt isn’t as attractive as when it’s a handsome billionaire. To reinforce, if Brad Pitt or Sidney Sweeney tells you a crude joke in the workplace and flirts with you, you probably lean in to it instead of going to HR - unless your bank balance could do with an injection. You know all of that is true because you’re human and you’re capable of being honest with yourself, the internet’s response is to call you a hypocrite if you say otherwise. So the above post isn’t actually supportive of Gregg as an individual - although there is certainly a touch of respect for him at least trying to fight back a bit, in his own shit way - clearly typical of the man’s character and probably why we’re even having this discussion - it’s just saying let’s all stop being so sensitive, and using his image to do it. There is a masculine angle to this yes, because that’s the majority (though certainly not all) of shitposters on the internet, but both sexes win by us trying to get to being human again and not robots, it’s messy, but that’s reality.
I’ll just add a touch about the society we’re living in now and why we have the use of the term ‘incel’ in the complaint about the post from the start of this piece. This world is a fucking lonely place for some people, really fucking lonely, male and female. If you’re not aware ‘incel’ is short for ‘involuntary celibate’ or in simple terms, wants to get laid but can’t. It’s moved on a lot now from that original meaning and encompasses a host of weird groups - google ‘transmaxxing’ that’s fun. It’s now used often to just mean loser guys in the internet, as an insult. Now I have a lot of sympathy for the original meaning, imagine despite your best efforts you just can’t get close enough to someone in a relationship (or maybe never have even had a conversation with someone of the opposite sex) for them to what to be intimate with you, you’ve had a life of nothing but rejection. That’s fucking bad. Now maybe you’re a cunt, plenty of that type around too, maybe it’s all your fault and you need to change your behaviour. Those people can get really bitter and grow intense hate for women, they’re an issue (ironically exactly the sort of potentially violent individuals true masculinity is there to counter). You cannot chuck both of these types in the same bucket. You may also have seen videos of women crying (usually in their cars) because no one approaches them anymore. They’re successful, they make an effort to look nice and go to places where they should meet men, but nothing happens. One of the major factors responsible for this is because men are concerned about being reported for being a perv, for trying to speak to someone and it doesn't go right for some reason and this leads to offense. They think why bother, it’s too dangerous. Yeah it might all happen anyway in a different environment when both parties are drunk, but that creates its own problems and its own potential nightmare scenarios that perhaps mean it’s just not worth the effort. I’ve genuinely seen the same girl online filming herself in the gym moaning about guys looking at her, then crying in her car because she’s lonely - engagement bait, yeah maybe, but you see my point. If we don’t get over this fear of each other as opposite sexes this shit only going to get worse and the results with get more and more pathological.
I’ll leave it there and reiterate that if Greg Wallace turns out to be genuine wrong un and not just a fucking idiot, then fair enough. But I stand by what I’m saying in general about the need to return to honest, acceptably messy interactions between men and woman. Because if we don’t the man who likes a buttery biscuit base is going to be the least of our concerns.
One final thing, this has been the BBC’s top story for two days now and the UK government have made a statement about it.
Remember the petition? Nope.
Remember the Chancellor lying on her CV? Nope.
Remember the PM letting Ukraine use UK weapons to strike Russia? Nope.
Remember the PM’s early knowledge of the Southport details and imprisoning people who told the truth? Nope.
Remember fucking over the farmers and enabling BlackRock to buy assets? Nope
You should be able to read this shit like a book by now.