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AIBU?

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Matthew Wright?

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thefirstMrsDeVere · 26/08/2011 10:16

Yes YOU Matthew, I know your minions will be watching.

Why do you feel the need to be an apologist for Domestic Violence?

Its not the first time you have done it and I doubt it will be the last.

Yes that Policeman who was horrifically blinded has been traumatized beyond my comprehension but IF he has assualted his wife why do you think its ok?

If she had assulted him due to the strain of her caring role and living with an obviously angry man - would you think that was ok?

You opined that ex service men should br treated sympthetically if they beat up their partners because of what they had been through.

Where, in your world, does that leave the rights of women and children to be safe in their own homes.

Knob.

BTW the over use of 'moron' and 'mental' in your show this morning is beginning to piss me right off.

While I am at it - why are you asking for the Notting Hill Carnival to be cancelled because of ther riots?

Buying in to the idea that the riots were about race perhaps?

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MrsBethel · 26/08/2011 10:54

Personally, I think our society generally gives far too much consideration to why criminal's have done something.

There's always some sort of sob story. Why be lenient on one chap where the sob story is immediate and tweaks the emotions, while throwing the book at another chap whose sob story is perhaps too complex for us to easily understand?

It should only really come into it for the purposes of rehabilitation.

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thefirstMrsDeVere · 26/08/2011 10:58

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sparkle1977 · 26/08/2011 11:02

I secretly love Matthew Wright!

Cannot comment on the show today as I didn't watch it but generally I find him amusing and quite honest and he says it like it is.

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thefirstMrsDeVere · 26/08/2011 11:02

The ex service men thing got to me when he said it.

It was like I suddenly had to put up with whatever OH did to me because he had been in a war.

OH is a lovely bloke and not agressive and I have not been abused. But as the wife of an ex service man I was deemed to have even less rights than any other victim of DV.

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Filibear · 26/08/2011 11:14

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SardineQueen · 26/08/2011 11:24

I think he likes to think he's playing devil's advocate with a lot of this stuff.

And sometimes he is.

But sometimes he just says really obnoxious things.

ChairOfTheBored · 26/08/2011 11:36

Sardine I agree to an extent, I think he does take an extreme line purely to provoke debate. What worries me is that it's not 'just a bit of telly'. Some people genuinely hold those extreme beliefs, that if a woman (or man, but let's play the odds here) is assaulted in her own home, she has somehow done something to deserve it, even if that something is just not to understand the stress her man is under.

Hearing Mr Wright endorse these views gives them a legitimacy they don't deserve.

And it also distracts from the real issues - yes we absolutely must do something to support troops who come back from active service suffering from trauma. But that something is not to excuse violence, it's to prevent it happening in the first place.

Odious television, by an odious man.

SardineQueen · 26/08/2011 11:39

I didn't hear him this morning. Totally agree that sometimes he is not playing devil's advocate but simply spouting obnoxious views.

I have no doubt that he crossed the line today.

Takitezee · 26/08/2011 13:28

I've watched him now and then but didn't see this particular show. I get the impression that he needs to create a debate and it's not interesting viewing if everyone has the same opinion. I'm not sure it's entirely his view but he is just presenting it that way.

BeStillMyBeatingFart · 26/08/2011 14:30

Matthew Wright has made it clear on many occassions how much he hates women. Mums in particular.

He's an arse.

Didn't he dump his girlfriend because she had cancer? Was years ago but I'll try to look it up.

Honeydragon · 26/08/2011 14:35

I called in the show, I made him see that I was in fact correct. Tis easy...just demonstrate you have a brain

LeBJOF · 26/08/2011 14:35

I don't think he dumped his girlfriend for having cancer- he supported her through it iirc. He's probably perfectly nice- he's only doing a bloody telly show, he's not the devil incarnate. Jeremy Vine is far more irritating.

Honeydragon · 26/08/2011 14:39

And......

he actually wants children, despite what he says on the show

mrjellykeepskidsquiet · 26/08/2011 14:51

YANBU....I find him obnoxious. The fact that he hates woman is very obvious IMO

auntmargaret · 26/08/2011 16:57

I like Matthew and I like the show. I don't see him as misogynist at all. He generally tries to see both sides, plays devil's advocate really well, and is very entertaining. Clearly domestic violence isn't to be condoned but I think he would be trying to understand. Didn't see that part of show,though,so can't comment on his particular words.

LadyBeagleEyes · 26/08/2011 17:02

I don't think he's a misogynist either, and his breeder comments are just lighthearted imo.
Is he planning on having children now he's married?
I must admit I do watch the show most days, but much preferred the week that Kaye Adams did it.

Honeydragon · 26/08/2011 17:34

Interview from the highly intellectual Woman & Home Magazine

Two years ago, all that changed because Amelia nearly died. We were sitting chatting one evening when she doubled over in pain, passed out and went blue. She had recently had a miscarriage, but the doctors hadn't realised it was twins - the second was ectopic and ruptured. She had to have major surgery and when they took her into the operating theatre, I was terrified I'd lose her. The operation was a success, and three months later Amelia moved in with me and we got engaged. We can now only have children by IVF, but we're going to try.

AliGrylls · 26/08/2011 17:42

Personally, I don't like him. I don't actually think his show really spends long enough discussing any topic for any meaningful conclusions to be drawn and agree he is a prat. In saying this, when I feel like shouting at someone, in the past I have turned the TV on because his show winds me up enough.

Birdsgottafly · 26/08/2011 17:46

I partly agree with him, i didn't watch the show, though.

If someone behaves out of character, there isn't anything wrong in trying to find out if there is a reason for that.

It is up to the partner to decide if they want their partnership to end, but the courts have to allow for the fact that we are human and humans can be damaged (emotionally, mentally etc) by what we have gone through/are going through. The justice system should allow for that, as the judge did in the recent case of kidnap and assualt by the mother of the disabled woman who was abused over FB.

Humans don't always 'think straight' and behave as they should, whilst they are going through/have been through trauma.

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