No you are
Guy accused of sexist behavior blames those stupid old middle-class bitches.
Gregg Wallace hits out at insults ‘handful’ of accusers
Gregg Wallace has
hit back atrejected allegations of historic misconduct, saying they have come from a “handful of middle-class women of a certain age”.
For the umpteenth time: adult journalists need to stop translating rude words into “hitting out at” or “hitting back” or any other form of hitting. Saying is not hitting, and news organizations should be careful not to use metaphors recklessly. Poetic license is all very well but BBC News is not a poet.
That said – the guy is obviously a shit. Oh no, women dare to be middle-class and over 30 – the nerve of them! How old is he? 60. Yeah but he’s a guy so there is no “of a certain age.” That’s only for bitches.
Responding to Wallace’s video, actress Emma Kennedy who won Celebrity MasterChef in 2012 and says she complained about his behaviour at the time, said “it doesn’t matter what the age of any woman is”.
“If you behave inappropriately, you behave inappropriately,” she told BBC News. “It’s a story as old as the tides that people who have been accused of inappropriate behaviour turn the tables on those pointing it out and try and change the narrative.”
She added: “Playing the ‘they’re having a go at me because I’m working class’ card is ridiculous.”
Can’t a guy have a little fun?
TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp told BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend about an encounter with Wallace several years ago that left her “so embarrassed”, after he “made a reference to something [he and his partner] did in bed”.
She also called Wallace’s claims on social media on Sunday “unacceptable”, adding: “He is essentially saying this is a class issue and middle-class women don’t understand the type of things he says because he’s working-class.”
And because he’s a guy and because he’s…er…60.
I don’t understand the class aspect of this, either. He gets something like £250,000 per year, and he has a net worth of around £4 million, but he’s working class. I know social class in Britain is not based on income alone, but this seems odd to me.
Sackbut, I had a supervisor who insisted he was working class, even though he was a dean at a college and has a Doc Ed. His rationale? He has a limp from having a horse step on him; he knows blacksmithing.
He came from a middle-class family, went through school without working, and is now making good money telling faculty what to do when he has no clue what they do. That’s as middle-class as you can get.
Being in the middle class seems to be a matter of evil these days, so a lot of people are identifying as working class. And as we know, if you identify as, you must be. TWCAWC.
In April 1970 someone I knew read out of Playboy that Jake Weinberg had reached his 30th birthday. Who cared? one might wonder, but he was the Berkeley activist responsible for the slogan “Never trust anyone over 30”.
The manner in which he dismisses the allegations against him do a nice job of confirming them.