Robert Webb - Strictly

[GrimDamnFanjo]

Really looking forward to Robert Webb on Strictly.
Unfortunately TRAs are already frothing and apparently writing to the bbc,

I love him.

I don’t watch strictly as a rule but Id def try to catch up on his bits.

He’s just bloody sensible isn’t he. He’s obviously academically intelligent and extremely educated but he’s also just bloody sensible. It oozes from him, if you had an issue you could ask him and he would 100% give you a ridiculously stupid dead pan answer but then he’d give you the perfect advice.

We need more men like this to speak up please

@dementedma

Slightly at a tangent but I had to send an email to 3 men today, and cc’d in a woman (who I genuinely like and admire). I work in a very formal setting - military - where emails often begin with “sir” or “ma’am”

i opened this one with “gentlemen” which I thought was polite. The woman has gently corrected me and suggested we should be moving away from gender specific language! I’m not sure how to reply!

I'd totally ignore her and carry on doing what I wanted to do.

I’d thank her for her input and carry on doing what I wanted to.

@dementedma

Slightly at a tangent but I had to send an email to 3 men today, and cc’d in a woman (who I genuinely like and admire). I work in a very formal setting - military - where emails often begin with “sir” or “ma’am”

i opened this one with “gentlemen” which I thought was polite. The woman has gently corrected me and suggested we should be moving away from gender specific language! I’m not sure how to reply!

Maybe just say that gender neutral language would have been appropriate if you were addressing the email to a mixed - sex group of people but as it was addressed to men (and she was only cc'd) then a polite and fairly formal, masculine form of words seemed appropriate.

I think that gender neutral language is absolutely fine when biological sex is irrelevant eg firefighter, police officer or postal worker. It can help break down stereotypes.

Peep Show is genius but anyone here seen Back?

Robert Webb plays a con man and he is superb.

If you read this, best of luck, Robert. I feel a bit aggrieved on his behalf - it's likely he just wants to write comedy, act and dance his socks off, I bet he does not want to be a GC warrior, but it may wellbe thrust upon him.

I bet he gets asked about it and grilled and pushed for quotes and it's not something he wants to get embroiled in. If he does, reluctantly, gets conscripted it might not be to the detriment of the MN position, so I hope he's given space to say what he wants and then leave it there.....

Really like him, love the flashdance, will definitely be watching 😊

I'm an intermittent watcher of Strictly, but I've just watched the flashdance youtube, and will watch this time around for sure, just because he seems to be someone who really enjoys dancing, so it looks to be very entertaining. And he's pretty good!

It's his that I'd like to see on strictly.

I'd forgotten Robert Webb has ALL the moves

I really enjoyed How not to be a Boy, the only non-disturbing cult related material I have read in ages. I adore Peep Show and I would definitely watch Strictly if Robert Webb was in it.

I think that Webb would make a really good, decent politician, but suspect he would be extremely reluctant to get involved in politics.

Oh and apparently Greg Wise is also on board so I'll definitely be watching 😅

I've just finished listening to How Not To Be A Boy and loved it. It was, by turns, both laugh out loud funny and extremely moving. There were times when I was very close to tears.

Thank you for posting the Comic Relief clip up thread, it just makes me smile so much! I can't wait to see him on Strictly.

I would like to go but you can only apply for tickets to Strictly in groups of four, and there's only two of us, but if anyone else might be interested in supporting Robert, ticketing is by ballot as it's so popular. At Elstree Studios. bbc.co.uk/showsandtours

I'm reading How Not to be a Boy thanks to this thread. Has some great bits in it. (And is great as a whole so far! But I mean has a few things to make you think).

I love Robert Webb. I read How Not to be a Boy before all the tra craziness and it is excellent. Can't wait to see him on Strictly!

I had How Not To Be A Boy in the (vast, teetering) To Read pile, but fast tracked it on the Strictly announcement.

I heartily recommend it; funny, self-deprecating, honest and viscerally passionate about the damage (to men and women) of gender stereotypes.

I really like confidently written autobiographies that jump about a bit chronologically.

There's a great bit that says

"I want the same thing for boys, men, girls, women and anyone who grew up feeling that none of these words held any meaning for them. I want them all to have the freedom to express their individual and contradictory selves with confidence and humility. Feminism has had some success in challenging the restrictive stereotypes of what a girl or woman is supposed to be like. What I'm after is extending that awareness to the half of the population who might still be under the impression that gender conditioning didn't happen to them because they've got a Y chromosome.

Gentlemen, it did happen to you. I don't blame you for forgetting because forgetting was part of the deal."