Saturday Kitchen wtf?

[BerwickLad]

Found this while flicking through the channels and there's a woman on there talking about some erotic story she's written and how she's turning it into a "live sex show" - lots of talk about porn, pornos, eroticism etc.

It's frigging half past ten on a Saturday morning. Wtf is going on?

[CuriousaboutSamphire]

Yes! One of its tag lines is "erratic, not erotic"

It's whole premise is satirical.

[museumum]

“My dad wrote a porno” isn’t actual erotica though - it’s a cringe comedy about someone embody finding out their dad wrote an erotic book. And erotic books are not the same as porn ethically or morally. At all.

So they’re not talking about “porn” as such although they may have used the word (don’t know, didn’t watch it all). The OP is misleading (I’m very anti porn myself).

[7Days]

Of course not ok, but then I can only dream of being cool enough to not care about every fuckin thing being sexualised.
Can I not even watch some chefs chop an onion with the kids of a morning without being on guard for a tricky conversation.

[CatherineOfAragonsPrayerBook]

I totally agree with you OP. And I contrary to a previous pp I think your sarcastic posts are well justified.

It's totally inappropriate, and some children will be watching.

[maddiemookins16mum]

I stopped watching SK because of that pointless omelette challenge.

[Boireannachlaidir]

Agree with you OP.

It's insidious and people don't realise or seem to care how much imagery is normalised now and language is changing so rapidly.

[Waterandlemonjuice]

I thought the same OP. Not ok for a Saturday morning cooking show.

[MitziK]

My kids liked cooking shows and would sometimes have one on in the mornings whilst I was sleeping cleaning the kitchen and doing other housework.

I wouldn't have appreciated their hearing about porn when they were expecting to see who fucked up an omelette the most and I was happily not hearing yet another Wizards of Waverley Place episode for a change.

[TellMeWhoTheVilliansAre]

Your kids were in the room, but we're they watching, or paying any attention to the programme at all? Probably not. It's not exactly television aimed at kids.

[RedRec]

I thought she was great, although was a bit startled by the first mention of porn I also thought what a contrast there was between her and the sweet and demure Eleanor Tomlinson! But weirdly they look exactly the same.

[Toofaroutallmylife]

Slightly off topic but this reminds me of watching a news item with my grandma about porn shops. She tutted and said “that’s ridiculous, pawn shops don’t exist any more” (this was the early 80s). Her aunty ran a very successful pawn shop in the 1920s. I didn’t try to correct her! (I have had to concentrate very hard on spelling in this post ...)

[RubbishRobotFromTheDawnOfTime]

We had it on and my 6 and 4 year olds were in the room. As they have no idea what porn or pornos are though they didn’t even register.

@elbeagle don't your children ask you what things are/what words mean when they hear or see something new? Presumably they weren't paying any attention to the programme. If they had been watching it, they'd have likely asked 'what's porn, mummy?'

[CuriousaboutSamphire]

I think the podcast does quite a lot to rail against said objectification... it is pretty satirical, takes a merciless tack against the less than competent writer.

[RubbishRobotFromTheDawnOfTime]

YANBU. It's part of the legitimisation and mainstreaming of porn etc, sex-positivity blah blah.

[Sparklybaublefest]

Why watch it

[TheGoldenNotebook]

as well

[CuriousaboutSamphire]

Made me smile. Not quite as you described, OP, and all pretty innocent. They were quite careful with their language.

Did you not hear the Spanish chef say, about himself not the book, that he felt raped? He was quietly corrected, offered a better word and they all moved on without drawing attention to it!!

Far more tricky to explain to a kid than someone going to a fancy dress party as a location... handcuffed to trellis

[TheGoldenNotebook]

Of course it's inappropriate. The way porn (and therfore the objectification of predominantly women) has entered the mainstream is worrying. As more women die at the hands of men in "sex games gone wrong", society needs to take a bit of responsibility. Part of that should be not serving up the normalisation of porn on a Saturday morning TV show. Oh and i can be cross about lots of things at the same time... Food banks, misogyny, Brexit. Which is just really given the current climate.

[BloggersBlog]

Quite enjoying the sarky replies

[SplashingAroundTown]

I absolutely agree OP

[nopocketsgrr]

It is not suitable at all for daytime telly. How can anyone think it is?

Why shouldn't kids be watching Saturday Kitchen? We sometimes bake while it is on and while it may go over the heads of the youngest children it won't go over the heads of 9 years plus. It is bad enough to think they have heard about porn and sex etc via other kids (and they often have even if we think they haven't) but it really does not need normalising via daytime telly that should be family friendly. Bloody BBC.

[SummerPavillion]

YA obviously NBU. Glad my dc weren't watching it, I don't fancy explaining those words quite yet.

[Sparklesocks]

I understand your frustration OP but I don’t think passive aggression and sarcasm in your replies is really necessary

[misspiggy19]

I didn’t think it was appropriate for Saturday morning either OP.

[BerwickLad]

Amazingly enough, it's possible to have an opinion about appropriate broadcasting content even if your own precious smashers are unaffected.