to despair that this sexual crassness is not “news” BBC!!!!!!

[WanderOver]

I was scrolling down BBC online news this morning .... the usual ... coronavirus, stock market.

About the 10th item down was an item entitled “How To Masturbate”.

I didn’t click on it, I wasn’t really wanting to get instruction on that. But I was truly gobsmacked. How is this an online news item? Isn’t it sexually crass? Is it click bait designed to shock and offend? Why is the BBC news website writing this sexual stuff?

I did write a complaint to BBC, and will no doubt hear a justification in due course.

But ..... words fail me.

Bless

Its your cookies!

Do you have teenage children?

I always get laser surgery in Slough!

I’m with you. It’s not what I pay my licence fee for. Plus the BBC cannot be trusted on sexual matters. BBC Three features that shocking woman pushing binders on confused teenage girls - it’s self harm with a cool edge - all because the BBC have swallowed the queer theory sex agenda.

My word OP, you need a large stiff

Brandy.
For the shock you understand.

Thanks BInterested - I’m not alone anyway! And I agree they must have an agenda, pushing this stuff. There’s often some “non-binary” item in their main web “news” page. But even if I was (alone in my view) I would still have it.

I’m not “clutching my pearls” either, I just have a sense of time and place and don’t want a sexual agenda constantly pushed in my face.

Lol YABU.

Thankfully I am very well practiced so have no need to read it. Perhaps the algorithm detects you needing a little loosen up?

To have values is to be uptight? I wonder if people have lost the plot in this country completely.

I always get laser surgery in Slough!

I always get how to save on funeral costs

I think the porn agenda is just everywhere. I mean why wouldn’t the BBC give positive coverage to abusive practices like binding? Why wouldn’t they have a piece on the website that my ten year old looks at every morning and has done for years - about masturbation ? Why wouldn’t the NSPCC hire a porn model as a children’s ambassador ? Why wouldn’t their staff member post videos of himself in the staff toilets in his rubber fetish gear? Why are we all such pearl clutchers?

And if you can’t see the thread linking all this and you don’t realise that people objecting to all of the above were called pearl clutchers as a way of shutting them down then you haven’t really understood the agenda behind all this.

This was an article from Feb 2018?

Do you have DeLorean @WanderOver?

Hi @Binterested I sort of understand where you're coming from but most of what you said has nothing to do with porn.

Binding is a very complex issue - studies have shown that while it has negative physical effects when used improperly, it has significant mental health benefits (www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13691058.2016.1191675?journalCode=tchs20&). It's short sighted to dismiss it as abusive - we need more research on this for sure.

So your 10 year old reads the BBC website - that means they also have access to stories about murder, terrorism, rape, sex crimes, trafficking, and many other horrific things. I don't think some information about masturbation is going to cause any harm to your child.

The children's ambassadors are presumably chosen for what they can bring to the charity now, not what they have done in the past. How is their past relevant? They must be qualified/capable now or they wouldn't have been appointed. They haven't done anything illegal and they're not going around telling children about their former work so what's the problem?

I honestly have no idea who you're referring to with the last one but no, no he shouldn't do that 😅

‘Sexual crassness’? ‘Values’? ‘Sexual agenda’ ‘pushed in your face’? Gosh, your vocabulary is like a trip down memory lane to the warm and fuzzy old days of Section 28.

YABVU

Sex education is important.
Teaching women to embrace their sexuality is important.
Reading something before you ignorantly complain is important.

You whine about a "time and place" when you have to actively choose when and where to read it...

Also, the BBC isn't just for news, you know?

Ridiculous thing to complain about.
Sex is a part of life, get over it

Op, your next advert will be for spec savers, you have been warned,

If you typed 'lady looking for BBC' into Google and clicked on the first link that might explain the issue.

I wish I hadn't read this with a mouthful of coffee. It's come out of my nose!!!

I just have a sense of time and place and don’t want a sexual agenda constantly pushed in my face.

My point was I dont trust the BBC to deliver information on this without their creeping adherence to a sexual rights and queer ideology agenda. There is a horrible history of the BBC and safeguarding. They’ve shown themselves too willing to ignore what children need.

And the person at the NSPCC wasn’t a porn model in distant history and they now do useful work with children. They are really only notable for taking their clothes off. They have nothing useful to say to children. The fact that you don’t know about the other scandal at the NSPCC is ironically because the BBC and others didn’t report on it. For fear of being seen as censorious. The NSPCC initially called complaints about the person uploading pornographic videos of himself in their premises as ‘homophobia’. Always the same tactic - don’t be so uptight. Don’t be such an old prude. You’re so old fashioned. You’re such a pearl clutchers.

don’t want a sexual agenda constantly pushed in my face

Do you really think one article that you didn’t even have to click on is an agenda constantly being pushed in your face?

To have values is to be uptight?

What value is that then? That women shouldn’t masturbate? That it’s dirty and wrong to talk about? It’s precisely because of attitudes like this that we need articles from institutions like the bbc bringing the subject out into the open.

Honestly. You are being ridiculous. You didn’t even click on the article, but you’re frothing at the mouth over it’s mere existence. All of the content on the internet isn’t going to be tailored to your personal preferences and ‘values’. You are not the arbiter of what is acceptable. If an article on the bbc isn’t to your taste, just ignore it. It really is that easy.

I'm off there now to see if I'm doing it right...

@tarttlet “women and girls don’t really have sexual desires like men and boys do.”

Sex with you must be a bag of laughs.

I have no words. 😂🤣

Who else uses the Google account, it is possibly cookies from a previous search? Is there anyone at home who you suspect is interested in learning how to do it.

queer ideology agenda

Wow. This is offensive.

They’ve shown themselves too willing to ignore what children need.

How so? They're not a children's service, in the main. Tell your child to read Newsround instead.

They have nothing useful to say to children.

How on earth do you know?

I do think the OP has a point about articles that aren't news - the BBC news website seems to encourage you to read entertainment/lifestyle type pieces rather than serious news. It's more frivolous stuff that appears on the sidebar, whereas other news sites eg. the Guardian (there's one for anyone playing MN bingo!) have clearer "news" and "lifestyle" sections. I doubt it's cookies as my browser automatically deletes them every time it closes.

Rhubarbpeony What a daft overreaction

I honestly read that as "over-erection" Very Freudian... Clearly I need some instruction

I think the queer ideology is extremely dangerous. I think most people do. It’s the attempt to break down boundaries that we all have as humans that keep us safe in the name of a highly individualistic and frankly male agenda. I don’t want it becoming mainstream. I’m not sure why you think that’s offensive unless you think it’s something to do with gay people.

How have they ignored children’s needs - Jimmy Savile? CBEebies promoting the trans child born in the wrong body agenda.

How do I know this person has nothing useful to say to children? To be fair I’ve never met them. But they are known for abusing women online. Especially Lesbians. Asking children to contact them privately online. They have no experience whatsoever of working with children or in any related area of interest to children. Every interaction I’ve seen them have is either crass or banal. Their only product that I’ve ever seen them promote is their surgically altered body. Again to be fair the NSPCC also asked Melinda Messenger back in the day to be a supporter - not sure if she was meant to be working with children in this role. Also a pretty awful decision and Melinda actually seems like a pretty ordinary women who doesn’t have a history of online abuse of women or of asking children to contact her privately.