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To think Kay Burley reporting on 'groping' is BU?

38 replies

WhooooAmI24601 · 15/08/2017 17:02

Just watching Sky News about Taylor Swift winning her lawsuit against a radio DJ who groped her. Kay Burley asked "surely women have a responsibility to look after themselves and protect themselves?" and mentioned a case of an airline worker who had reportedly "led on" a pilot who was later accused of groping her, saying she shouldn't have led him on if she didn't want to be groped.

Is it Unreasonable to hope that any articulate, educated woman with a voice worth her salt shouldn't be making comments along those lines because they potentially normalise and downplay sexual assault, which surely will lead to fewer reports and prosecutions? And is it also U to think that a woman can flirt with a man (or a man with a woman, or whoever with whoever) but once they're finished flirting that the other party has no 'right' to continue any form of touching, flirting or engagement?

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WorkingBling · 15/08/2017 17:04

Sky News is particularly bad. that Steven guy was once on there talking about how surely if women are wearing short skirts they can't be surprised when they get attention.

I think journalists have to ask the questions others are thinking. But agree, it's ridiculous. Another nail in Sky News' coffin for me.

TopBitchoftheWitches · 15/08/2017 17:04

Kay Burley disgusts me quite often.
I won't watch sky news if she is on.

DamnDeDoubtanceIsSpartacus · 15/08/2017 17:05

What a vile comment. Men have the responsibility to not put their hands up women's skirts.

x2boys · 15/08/2017 17:06

Yanbu but I think it more likely shows what a terrible reporter Kay Burley is I watched sky after the Grenfall Tower and Manchester Bomb some of the crao she came out with was enough to make your toes curl.

x2boys · 15/08/2017 17:06

Crap*

Ijustwantaquietlife · 15/08/2017 17:11

Kay burley is woorse reporter than trump is a president.

jay55 · 15/08/2017 17:13

How is posing for a picture leading a man on?

maxthemartian · 15/08/2017 17:13

It's Kay Burley so no great surprise.

WinnieTheMe · 15/08/2017 17:14

That's vile. What was TS meant to do? Turn up to a meet and greet in a hazmat suit?

acatcalledjohn · 15/08/2017 17:46

Ah, Kay Burley. A victim blaming poor excuse of a journalist.

Can't say I'm surprised.

DeleteOrDecay · 15/08/2017 17:52

She is a massive twat and her comments don't surprise me in the least.

Sparklingbrook · 15/08/2017 17:55

I agree with Delete, she's awful and I don't understand how she's still on TV.

VladmirsPoutine · 15/08/2017 18:05

Kay Burley gets a lot more shit than men who've pretty much said or done what she has. I think she just doesn't give a shit. The pressure on her to censure herself because she's a woman yet men can get a free pass must grow tiresome.
I'm not saying I'm her biggest fan. But I do see where she's coming from. It's not her job to uphold the rights of women or be voice for women just because she's reached where she has in life. No-one expects that of men.

Crunchymum · 15/08/2017 18:07

Kay Burley is a cunt. HTH

Seeyamonday · 15/08/2017 18:09

Can't stand the bloody woman, all pout and breathless reporting.

DeleteOrDecay · 15/08/2017 18:57

It's not about upholding the rights of women, it's about being a decent person. Anyone who thinks women deserve to be assaulted if they 'lead a man on' or don't appear to be 'protecting' themselves is a cunt.

I really don't see Kay Burley's point at all to be honest.

Fitzsimmons · 15/08/2017 19:00

YABU for describing Kay Burley as an articulate educated woman.

ShellyBoobs · 15/08/2017 19:02

Burley is an idiot.

If you bear that in mind whenever she opens her mouth it helps.

AnyFucker · 15/08/2017 19:05

Ms Burley appears to be a perfect representation of how much some women can hate other women

pnutter · 15/08/2017 19:06

Kay Burley is always a twat!!

Sparklingbrook · 15/08/2017 19:07

DH can't stand her either. Just for balance.

AndTodayIAm · 15/08/2017 19:13

I think Kate Burley is unkind and heartless. Did you see her harangue the two local women when April Jones was found to be murdered. KB basically broke the news to them live on air then continued to badger them despite them clearly being in shock. It was revolting to watch. I, along with many others reported it and I've refused to watch her ever since.

She also asked the partner of Ipswich serial killer Steve Wright: “Do you think if you’d had a better sex life he’d have done what he did?”.

(Exact quote)
That's a seriously fucked up thing to ask.

i suppose she has to pay for her facelifts somehow....

AndTodayIAm · 15/08/2017 19:16

Anyfucker. I'm not sure what you mean about how she appears to be a perfect representation of how much some women can hate other women. I promise you I'd feel the exact same way if it were a man.

Have a look at the videos of some of her worst moments.

NachoFries · 15/08/2017 19:18

lol how about the time she said she was kicked out of a mosque when she wasn't? Or when she mourned the death of Malcolm Muggeridge almost three decades after his death when she was supposed to write "RIP Cliff Michelmore"? Those are just two off the top of my heed and I'm sure there are many more 😂 She's clearly a cat as she has many lives [big grin]

WhooooAmI24601 · 15/08/2017 19:23

Ms Burley appears to be a perfect representation of how much some women can hate other women

AnyFucker That's it exactly. I'd be pissed off hearing a male presenter make those comments but for a woman to do so is somehow worse because it's revolting of her to not even consider any form of 'sisterhood'. To openly state that she expects women to take responsibility for the potential actions of men is just awful.

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