Gyles Brandreth - urgh

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Currently on This Morning advocating for ‘weaponised male incompetence’ proudly stating how he does house jobs badly so his wife takes them over. They’re all laughing at this jolly little admission.

Men like him make me fucking sick

I’m not a ‘personality’ whose whole career is based on loudly spouting my opinions though am I

I agree. He’s a very generous interviewer. I don’t get misogynist vibes from him at all.

I’m loving his reading of his diaries too.

I thought he was gay too!

Love Gyles, he has a great podcast which I discovered recently.

Not quite. He said that people like him (who don’t have much to lose) should instead of popping to the pharmacist to get some with ease - not the clinically obese. I’m sure he stated that more than once actually.

I think "middle aged" might be a slightly optimistic description?😄

<misses point of thread>

I think you'll find his career was far more complex on the narrow bit written about here

In the past I would have found Gyles a bit tiresome, but nowadays I notice im hugely relieved when he appears on things, because he has a good vocabulary and a sense of humour. So many people on TV now are lacking wit and articulacy I can’t fathom how they ever got their jobs.

There's no need to take what he says seriously. He's just trying to amuse.

Men of his generation are were functioning adults in the 1960s and 70s when women were fighting hard for equality, so they have no excuse for their ignorant behaviour. Unfortunately even now I know many young women who enable them.

I like him. I think he's entertaining and I bet he'd be great company with some amusing tales.

Re: the male incompetence comments. I assume it was said for laughs and fail to see what's so upsetting about it.

Would he really be great company? Good company to me is people who listen as well as talk. He’d just talk over you (as he does on TM) with his name dropping stories.

No, I didn't; but it's hardly esoteric knowledge about how many ordinary people he went around merrily offending and making appalling comments to, in the knowledge that the balance of power meant he could get away with it with impunity.

He also banged on repeatedly about how urgent and crucial it was that we must reduce the population - yet he chose to father four children.

I'm not saying in the least that he never did anything nice for anybody; but on balance, I don't think he can have been that lovely a person.

Oh I got confused with Prince Andrew!!!!

I’ve encountered him in person at various media events and his “sense of humour” is just basic crude sexism. He’s a dick.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one 😂

Yes. He does this, along with a side helping of leering at very young women in the room and making comments about how he’d like a bit of that, etc. Really grim.

A friend of DS's who worked for Prince Philip says he was a wonderful man to work for.

Yes I get it, along with the dreaded “banter”. But honestly, morning TV is just fluff. He’s not advocating The Handmaids Tale or similar - lighten up a wee bit.

I take it as a joke as him putting on a persona, like when comedians make jokes about their kids i don't take it seriously, i don't like somw of the jokes but I don't presume they are like that in their normal life

But men can be as incompetent as they want and they find women who 'mother' them which is weird

Yes I think don’t take it too seriously. Claudia winkleman makes out she’s a dimwit fuckup who sleeps all the time. She’s a massively well educated successful woman with a Cambridge degree.

This. It’s a great podcast.

OP- why so bored on a Friday you’re watching TM and starting a thread about someone you don’t personally know?

He"s such a fucking prick. I have loathed the man since he said how much he loved Thatcher, thats enough for me. Surely anyone with two brain cells would ignore his narcissistic bleatings.

His wife is a Woman of Steel. Pity not required.

i find him very annoying
so full of himself