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To have complained about today’s episode of Loose Women

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WithYou47 · 15/05/2025 20:44

My DH thinks IABU but I’m adamant this was inappropriate.

Loose Women had a ‘dummy’ of a man’s bottom on their show earlier and one of the presenters/guests inserted their finger where the sun doesn’t shine.

I was eating lunch at the time and found this extremely unbecoming for that time of the day.

I expect my complaint will fall on deaf ears, but it’s worth a go.

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ApricotFlan · 16/05/2025 00:46

“Extremely unbecoming” 😄😄

Ilikeadrink14 · 16/05/2025 00:32

LoveBecomesaHabit · 15/05/2025 21:10

Why do they do this Loose Men thing? Do they seriously think that the husbands/ partners of their regular viewers are going to sit down and watch it instead of them? Or that men who don’t normally watch Loose Women will suddenly get the notion to because it’s men presenting?

I have often wondered the same myself. Both programmes are complete and utter trash and I gave up watching ages ago. The Loose Men, especially, is dire. That said, if I find out that they are discussing something relevant to me, I might watch that bit. I can’t remembe4 when I last sat through a whole programme.
I fail to understand why these programmes are still being aired and why some people actually watch them every day. The presenters are mostly inept, especially the dreadful Ruth, or Colleen when she fills in. Christine is bearable, just, but can be juvenile. Janet would probably be ok but for some reason, she is only a panellist. Annoying people like Myleen Klass keep getting shovelled in , presumably in the hope they will save the day. They don’t! Even Gloria seems bored and is showing her age. All told, it’s a train wreck.
How these programmes carry on when viewing figures drop as drastically as they have, I do not know,

BobbyBiscuits · 16/05/2025 00:30

ItGhoul · 15/05/2025 23:27

The programme was Loose Men and themed around men’s health. Not there for women to giggle at. And most women take men’s health really seriously because they don’t want their partners and sons to, you know, die unnecessarily and all that.

Ok in that case it seems ok. But I don't see why men need to see a plastic replica of an arse with stuff being inserted into it?

CountryMumof4 · 16/05/2025 00:27

I've never watched LW, or any daytime TV other than when I was on MAT leave, but I certainly wouldn't get worked up about a segment covering men's health. It's not like they had a real man standing there with a doc doing the examination up his bum on live TV (and even then I wouldn't be bothered). it's an essential part of health care, as are smear tests etc.

I'm sorry if it upset or offended you OP, but I do feel it's important for things like that to be discussed opebly so it's the norm. Imagine how many lives could be saved. Even just one!

redcord · 16/05/2025 00:24

And all this in front of the future King of England's uncle. How unlike the homelife of our own dear Queen (RIP).

MumWifeOther · 15/05/2025 23:58

Really!?

Spirallingdownwards · 15/05/2025 23:50

So just the one arsehole on the thread and not the plastic one on the TV show!

Treesandsheepeverywhere · 15/05/2025 23:40

Don't watch This Morning OP, they had a sperm race the other week just for fun.

Both shows are embarrassing but also informative on health matters.

Everyday is a school day for someone out there.

Treesandsheepeverywhere · 15/05/2025 23:35

IDontHateRainbows · 15/05/2025 21:08

Shoving a finger up someone's arse against their will

Although doesn't rape technically require a penis?

Edited

And a real bum.

ItGhoul · 15/05/2025 23:33

feelingbleh · 15/05/2025 22:41

This. She needs to turn off pornhub and realise real life isn't like that

Real life absolutely is like that and that act isn’t a particularly porny thing at all. Daytime TV, however, is not like that, so the OP is obviously still being ridiculous and weird.

Pinepeak2434 · 15/05/2025 23:30

Makes a change from Nadia Sawalha lifting up her top to expose her breasts.

ItGhoul · 15/05/2025 23:27

BobbyBiscuits · 15/05/2025 23:20

I didn't think the demographic for that show were men so it seems more like they're doing it to be OTT and get women to have a laugh about men's bodies? They'll say it's got a serious health message is what they'll no doubt allege but everyone knows what a bum hole is, and how to stick something up it? So yeah, it's totally unnecessary.

The programme was Loose Men and themed around men’s health. Not there for women to giggle at. And most women take men’s health really seriously because they don’t want their partners and sons to, you know, die unnecessarily and all that.

BobbyBiscuits · 15/05/2025 23:20

I didn't think the demographic for that show were men so it seems more like they're doing it to be OTT and get women to have a laugh about men's bodies? They'll say it's got a serious health message is what they'll no doubt allege but everyone knows what a bum hole is, and how to stick something up it? So yeah, it's totally unnecessary.

DelphiniumDoreen · 15/05/2025 23:18

I’m really looking forward to episode where Mortimer and Whitehouse discuss and demonstrate how to do a vaginal examination on a rubber fanny. Because we all know men are interested in women’s health.

Meanwhile in the real world…..

EastGrinstead · 15/05/2025 23:06

What a mind-bogglingly stupid OP.

GoodQueenBess · 15/05/2025 23:04

@LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway , Thanks for the link to the show. I thought it got the tone right.

Ellephanting · 15/05/2025 23:02

Years ago LW was ok but these days I can’t watch it. I watch Homes Under the Hammer or Love it or List it.

Blogswife · 15/05/2025 22:57

This post is so ridiculous. This is why so many men don’t get checked out - ignorance and embarrassment. It was only a plastic model fgs !

Gymnopedie · 15/05/2025 22:55

I assumed it was a sexual discussion and they were demonstrating a prostate massage for sexual purposes.

If only pearl clutching was an Olympic sport.

We'd be a shoo-in for gold.🏅

whitewineandsun · 15/05/2025 22:48

Banmooo · 15/05/2025 21:58

You made weird assumptions because you missed the start and then complained?

Are you for real?

This is peak MN. YABVU, OP.

feelingbleh · 15/05/2025 22:41

nocoolnamesleft · 15/05/2025 22:30

So you are so sex obsessed that you interpreted a demonstration on a mannikin of an incredibly common medical examination technique as a sex act. Pretty sure the problem is with you.

This. She needs to turn off pornhub and realise real life isn't like that

MrsClatterbuck · 15/05/2025 22:40

Also I miss Stephs Big lunch which was more enjoyable and had a bit more gravitas imo

Thedogscollar · 15/05/2025 22:40

My complaint stands it didn't need a graphic demonstration.
Could you be any more ignorant than your OP?
Yep you just were. * *

Flyswats · 15/05/2025 22:40

That photo shows the rubber bum. It doesn't even look like a bum.

MrsClatterbuck · 15/05/2025 22:38

Gloriia · 15/05/2025 20:49

LW is an embarrassment for women imo. What could be an interesting show with some intelligent women is just reduced to a shrieking whooping joke. I like Janet SP and Christine Lampard, the rest omg just stfu!

Like them as well but they are proper journalists