Strictly’s Craig and howling Feminazis giving women a bad name
No sooner had strictly judge Craig revel Horwood uttered the words on a late-night comedy show than the feminist lynch mob was upon him. He’d been asked by Jimmy Carr, puerile host of Channel 4’s 8 out of 10 Cats, whether he watched the fantasy drama Game of Thrones, which is renowned for its sexual violence. Foolishly, he replied: ‘I liked all the sex scenes and the rape...’
I was watching the show and I thought: ‘What a stupid thing to say, Craig. really bad taste, you shouldn’t have opened your mouth.’
But, frankly, it is the sort of thing that can easily happen when people like him step out of their family-viewing comfort zone into oh-so edgy post-watershed shows where you’re encouraged to push the boundaries of decency for laughs.
As I say, it was an appalling remark, but Craig realised this as soon as he said it. He has apologised ‘unreservedly’ for any offence caused, and that should be the end of it — lesson learnt.
But no, that’s not good enough for the sisterhood. They will only be happy once they’ve hounded Craig out of strictly.
‘rape is the most devastating and vile crime and I would have to question him as a person and his merit as a judge,’ cries Marilyn Hawes, founder of enough Abuse UK. ‘You cannot have people on a family show with that mindset. The BBC should get rid of him.’
What a ludicrous over-reaction! But then we shouldn’t be surprised. For this is the same mentality as that of the baying mob of feminist fascists who went for the brilliant nobel Prize-winning biologist sir Tim Hunt, forcing him out of his job as a professor at University College London.
sending himself up as a chauvinist when addressing female scientists and journalists, Hunt had said: ‘Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab. You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them, they cry . . .’
It may not have been the best joke and I can understand why some took offence. But it was monstrous for the grievance-obsessed sisterhood to hound a great scientist out of a job because of a minor lapse in taste.
Predictably, the loudest howls of outrage came from an unspeakable charlatan called Connie st Louis, who said the conference had been ‘utterly ruined by sexist speaker Tim Hunt’.
st Louis was on the warpath again this week, claiming that she had been ‘bundled out’ of her job last month as a journalism lecturer at City University — which shouldn’t surprise anyone given that it was revealed by this paper she had made up much of her so-called journalistic career on her CV.
Feminism has achieved huge things for women. Feminazism could undo some of those achievements.