BBC drops Drag Race UK

That wasn't Drag Race. That was the Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2019.

I don't believe either of those things so you'll have to ask someone who does. Are you always this aggressive and unpleasant to people who reasonably disagree with you about a TV show?

So you can't explain your own assertion then. Par for the course, I guess.

but if someone misgenders a transperson it’s literal genocide isn’t it? So how come calling a TIM a man is literal violence, but mocking and degrading women is ok?

Wait, Sam Fox is a lesbian?
Oh wow, that's tickled me pink. 😁
All those Sun readers....... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ooh, I'm actually surprised you didn't stick a 'pearl clutching' or 'hysterical' in there!

https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/28/vivienne-hits-back-criticised-using-word-fishy-big-fat-quiz-year-2019-11970023/amp/

Note that the apology for using a hugely offensive term wasn't to women, but to the trans community.

'But laughing at the supposed smell of women's vaginas is soooo funny! If you don't find it funny, you have 'very low level offence sensors, don't you know!!'.

I couldn't eye roll more, pal.

I think this was the point being made.

Hundreds of contestants and two being drag queens is hardly 'knee deep' is it?

If Drag Race UK is 'offensive and demeaning to women' then you no doubt have a very low level offence sensors so you shouldn't be too confused.

I can't be the only one wondering why objecting to men (of any sexual orientation or gender identity) being offensive and demeaning to women is framed as 'naked homophobia'.

You're going to have to explain that to me as if I'm 5, I'm afraid.

And you can be homosexual and be a bit 🤔🙄😡 at the implication that mad offensive misogyny and sexual behaviour is just all totes a normal part of being gay and everyone should celebrate it. No thanks. Likewise 'celebrity' masterchef, which got to be knee deep in men in drag. Tedious.

The BBC have finally realised that mad overexposure for years and years while ignoring all feedback has caused the exact opposite effect of what they intended.

Lots of people here claim they would have supported Lily Savage - but she was a single mum under social services investigation for abusing her criminal kids, pimped them out and regularly used vulgar language and drugs/sex terminology with audiences. She was a hoot! Honestly some of these posts are just naked homophobia. You can believe in the right to single sex spaces and enjoy yourself watching drag acts!

Believe me, it was something of that sort, I didn't imagine it. There was something they did not like, and it was odd. Big sign several metres tall, large lettering, up on the wall as you walked in, gone the next week

Not accepting certain payment types is hardly excluding non-Brits.

It hasn't been cancelled, it is simply moving to the streaming service from the production company.

A lot of moaning, nonsense talk over "fascism", because people don't want to pay £5 a month to watch it.

Never liked drag so good but should never have been on at all

..and in one case died whilst sodomising a dog.

Other way round, in the interests of factual accuracy.

Sorry, I can't recall exactly. I went back to read it and be sure I hadn;t imagined it, and it had gone, which confirmed I had been right. It was about methods of payment and excluded some forms - would it have been the cards issued to asylum seekers? Seems unlikely. I was going to photograph it to go away and think. They had a food department. But it seemed odd.
The diner with good breakfasts was much more explicit. Union Jack, and "England, love it or leave it." on display over the counter. It was the memory of that which alerted me at the garden centre. Somone must have had a word.

And back on track on the English, the kind of Morris which includes a Betty seems quite harmless, though I noted an Austrian version which was nasty and scarey, though not in the same way as drag.

This is interesting news. A new series of Drag Race seems to have started within the last week or so. iPlayer has been aggressive about shoving it in my face, despite me never showing any interest. They did a similar thing with a drag queen comedy a few months ago, and with the godawful Disney Doctor Who. All were given the hard sell on the iPlayer homepage, in quite a desperate way, before flaming out and being cut loose from the BBC stable.

I'm guessing viewership has fallen off a cliff.

I see the Graun has a particularly whiny and teeth gnashing article about its cancellation, boiling down to little more than ‘but…but what about the REPRESENTATION?!’. This and any other article in a similar vein are ignoring a few salient points;
Its viewing figures have dropped by a third.
Drag has become very over-exposed.
The over-exposure has had the inevitable effect that drag has become boring (let’s face it, the ballroom style drag schtick is, underneath the wigs and sequins, shallow, samey, and lacking scope for true originality) and it’s slipping out of fashion.

The kind of drag that people are disgusted by, the 'fishy whore' type get up, I truly believe is because these particular men are insanely and obsessively jealous of how naturally and effortlessly sexy and beautiful women are.

They have to tear us down as they can't ever achieve it with their scaffolded fake boobs and bodies, sewn in arses, wigs and caked on makeup. They have to throw in constant putrid jibes about straight women's sexuality to make it clear how much they hate and despise them.

And they all (without exception) look ridiculous - like circus clowns at a strip club.

Drag is not wholesome at all...and certainly not something for family viewing as it was starting to become. The whole drag culture, the jokes etc are often sexualised and 'smutty'.

Also in recent times a number of high profile drag queens have died from recreational drug overdoses, and in one case died whilst sodomising a dog.The decadent, 'subversive' and 'transgressive' culture in which drag operates in not in the least bit family friendly, or benign.

So pleased to read this earlier. It was utter shite!
Pissed off about Ski Sunday though.

Well then you get onto the mess that is TQ+, whereby straight people can be part of the original LGB community because trans can mean just about anything today. Trans is a deliberately ambiguous term.

I know this is off topic, but I'm really curious about the coded notice.