Inappropriate BBC video? What It Takes To Look This Fabulous

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I just saw this video, www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-48583447/what-does-it-take-to-look-this-fabulous and I'm really appalled by it, I really don't think it's appropriate to be on the BBC website; I would be concerned about children seeing it and also as a woman I find it offensive. I'm going to make a complaint to the BBC but I'd like to hear your opinions too.

because the UK is on the whole an inclusive country and it is indeed fabulous.

could be fabulous without spending lots of money

I can't believe he spent 200 quid on that fabric. That stuff was cheap as chips in the remnant shop near here. He was had.

Still, who wants to go to the stuffy old funeral of the guy who brought you up when you can dress like that!

Oh darn, were there trans people involved? I just laughed at the picture but wasn’t wearable glasses the first time. Now I can either treat them as transpeople and let them get on with it , or I treat them as women and say they are a disgrace promoting ridiculous ideals to girls. Quandary here.

Hideous.

I think the days of using the BBC website as a resource for homework are probably drawing to a close

Yes.

Any child browsing the BBC home page interested in history and shoes would (yesterday and this morning, at least) have come across a story with a lead image of a pre pubescent child in high heels and, on clicking through to the story - about the history of high heels - an introduction to pornography as one of the historical facts about high heels.

I just tried to link to it but it seems to have been removed, thankfully.

It's getting easier to connect the dots at the BBC.

The BBC home page style of combining sexualised content with zero critical thinking about the issue is dangerous.

I think you are pearl clutching. I don't think the video is worse than anything you might see normally on TV and the boobs aren't real.

I think the number of children who land on the BBC homepage, if that's where you saw it, would be extremely, extremely small.

If children were doing research they would Google and land on the page they needed, surely.

No children looking for cbbc or CBeebies would end up there either.

No worse that strictly come dancing

I'm impressed he has a pension in place, but it's really sad that he had no money left to attend his grandfather's funeral despite his whole family going, then concludes that's what his grandfather would have wanted.

he had a part-time job to fund most of it, but where did the rest come from, I missed that bit or did he not say?

But.....nah the video didn't bother me. You couldn't even really stick a nudity warning on it as you don't really see anything.

I hate drag, think its creepy, drag queens just stay out of the women's and girls toilets.

Just listened again...

"Part time work is how i get most of my income and errrr hustling"

So what.... hustling is that like conning people out of money or is it like sugar daddies?

I can't see any problems with youngsters exressing themselves and having fun really. No different from the new romantic scene in the 80's. I can't imagine any of those kids are still going around like that.
Much better to flaunt it while you are young then when you are older and it doesn't suit you anymore.
It's better than middle aged men in fetish gear which is always quite tragic.

Wow, from the post I was thinking it's going to be something awful so was reluctant to click.
It's literally a drag queen dancing and saying how much it costs to keep up looks.
Not sure what exactly you're upset about?
OK, the boobs are a bit much lol but it's nothing worse than half the celebs you see in magazines now with their boobs hanging out of dresses

Just seen @Bespin comments -agree, you see just as much of that on the reality dancing shows!

I'm surprised that you are shocked, OP, really. And I am quite a prude by modern standards.

Your best bet is to stay with your children and talk to them about what they've seen.

I dont think it it is offensive per se.

But does say a lot about the BBC and the way it is going - that it presents this kind of surface lifestyle as fabulous and one that people should aspire to. On its overall front page

And I do wonder about the money and what hustling really means in this case

I’m not going to click on it as the more views the video gets, the more of this kind of thing, the BBC put up.

The front picture is enough for me. No, Kenni you do not look fabulous. You look ridiculous.

Lizzie
It's a non issue story. Boy enjoys dressing in drag talking about the costs involved.

Nah sorry I didn’t find it offensive. I found it quite creative. Lot of money for the outcome though. My question is do the performers make money from this? How does it compare/balance against the outlay?

Sad he couldn’t make grandfathers funeral.

I don't think there's anything offensive about this, except how much the look cost him. I feel like he needs some guidance on sewing as the outfit was poorly fitted and awful fabric.

Suddenly the words ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ have taken on a whole new meaning, and not in a good way!

Wow. Ballroom is not what I thought it was ...

This.

Wtf is “ballroom” then? The video i didn’t mind, tbh. He’s a bloke, and seemingly a sensible one who’s careful not to get into debt etc, who’s hobby is dressing like that and going out to a certain scene.

Not so different to some mates of mine in the 90’s who’d dress in 3 bits of string, take an E, and head off to a rave in a field somewhere.

I didn’t get the impression he was trans, it’s how he dresses for a certain scene, not him feeling female.

Op what have children got to do with it? It’s not aimed at them.

I'm beginning to think I should move to an Amish community and live a luddite existence.

Can I come too?

I know what you mean, I’m planning to retire to a house and garden and mix with as few people as humanly possible!

Media is full of shite to ignore though.

I don’t find it offensive at all.

Wtf is “ballroom” then?
Underground drag balls. There was a show based on it on BBC2 recently.