A classic example of the BBC revisionists at work….anti-male, anti-western, anti-Christian,, anti-iconic image of western beliefs and history…attempting to undermine everything that you value about your society’s or cultural past.
Here the BBC attacks what it calls ‘One of the great icons of what it is to be a man’……The Knight.
Now from the BBC blurb you might think that this could be inclusive and wide ranging, taking in many different examples of ‘knight’ from various cultures of which there are many famous examples….Japanese Samurai, Native American ‘Braves’, Zulu warriors, Muslim warriors, Gurkhas amongst others.
But no….it is the European, Christian knight that gets the ‘treatment’.
Amanda Vickery explores the history of masculinity through six different archetypes of the ideal man, archetypes which still have an echo today.
The history of men and masculinity is now at the cutting edge of scholarship. In conversation with historians, Professor Vickery asks: Where did these ideals of how men should behave come from? How influential were they on the lives and careers of real men? And what did women make of them?
The series begins in the Middle Ages and ends in the 1950s. It explores The Knight, The Gentleman, The Lover, The Sailor, The Explorer, and The Suit.
Cultural historian Bill Burgwinkle introduces some revealing songs which suggest there was a strong homosexual subculture among knights. And medieval historian Helen Castor uncovers manuscript evidence of the struggle (personal and financial) ordinary gentlemen faced to live up to the exacting ideal.’
It turns out our ‘iconic hero’ is just an ultra violent murdering, raping, pillaging homosexual who doesn’t understand women but does it all for the love of Jesus….and is all the more conflicted because of that.
I am certain Knights were really bothered about the conflict of killing in the name of Christ just as Muslims are in the name of Allah.
But then of course the BBC always tells us that Muslims don’t kill because Allah demands it….he loves peace….so for Muslims the question doesn’t arise…hence they are not included in this piece.
And I can’t wait for the final example of ‘manhood’…the ‘suit’….another banker bashing exercise almost guaranteed….any bets on Gordon Gecko being mentioned?
I know what Mohammed’s idea of manliness was.
Yes, me too, it was consummating his marriage when she was errr……9?
“‘I WOULD LIKE A ROYALTY CHECK’:
” GLENN BECK ENDORSES ‘THE DARK KNIGHT RISES’ AND WE BREAK DOWN ITS MESSAGES”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/i-would-like-a-royalty-check-glenn-beck-endorses-the-dark-knight-rises-and-we-break-down-its-messages/
At least one good thing if Islam takes over all the IBBC people will go the way of the left in Iran after the revolution.
“The history of men and masculinity”? Masculinity?!? Must have outsourced the research, then.
Perhaps restricting their research to certain saunas around Hampstead Heath?
Is there any non-homosexuals at the IBBC now?
Is there any non-homosexuals at the IBBC now?
Is there any homophobes left on Biased BBC whose gets their grammar correctly?
“Is there any homophobes left on Biased BBC whose gets their grammar correctly? ”
Ha ha. Own goal from Scotty as a failed grammar-nazi.
And I was referring to the “whose gets” as the other mistake is obviously intended.
Hey Scott, I was referring to “manly” metrosexuals – the most prominent class in the BBC. Who said anything about gay men?
(But yours was a funny response)
Erm, Demon, the whole sentence was deliberate. Sorry, I assumed everybody would get the joke. Gould have known better 🙂
…and Muphry’s law (combined with autocorrect) strikes at the most ironic of times! “Should”, not “Gould”…
Hole digging skill like this could well have commercial value. May be worth contacting RTZ.
Scott of the Antarticulate.
Hoist on your own petard sir?
If questioning the proportion of homosexual employees at the BBC makes one homophobic then doesn’t questioning the racial make up of the same organisation make you a “waycist”?
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/1104305.stm
No wonder Greg had to go.
I asked a genuine question how am I a homophobe?
Or is this the typical left tactic of calling someone a nasty name so they will be to scared to debate the lefty. This being because the lefty way of winning any arguement because lefty’s can’t last outside the Socialist dream world they live in.
Lefties always end up playing the man because they can’t play the ball -metaphorically and literally (which is why they despise ‘elitism’ in sport).
“Amanda Vickery explores the history of masculinity”…
Funny name for a man to have, Amanda.
Oh bbc, you fail again.
Perhaps a male professor might have had a better insight into being male?
Can you imagine the opposite scenario:
“Professor Reg Blenkinsop explores the history of femininity…”
No, neither can I.
It’s called the feminisation of masculinity or emsaculation if you’re a really militant feminist.
It really ought to concern us all that so many boys do not have a positive male role model in their lives – at home and at school.
Now there’s a topic for womens’ hour to explore.
The cult of courtly love, troubador poetry,the celebrity of William Marsall and the teachings of the mediaeval church about warfare are all interesting topics but this programme seemed deliberately to make them all slightly squalid and unpleasant areas of study you would rather not be bothered about, somehow. This is unfortunate as they all represent movements to civilise rather brutal times. I suppose it was because it was made by a feminist with an axe to grind (aided, in part, by a roped in historian who seems to bat for the other side). If the uncovered manuscript evidence referred to in the programme’s blurb means the Paston letters -they were all printed in the nineteenth century. The strange thing is that the courtly love and chivalry bit were very popular with the ladies at the time and played at least a small part in creating (and reflecting) a situation where women were treated with a respect and deference so despised in some parts of the world – and so exploited by feminists.
Wally, once again you fail revisionism 101.
“Cultural historian Bill Burgwinkle introduces some revealing songs which suggest there was a strong homosexual subculture among knights.”
Oh dear, this would be the ‘bonding’ always seen in sports teams and fighting units, anyone listening to ‘some revealing’ rugby songs or ‘some revealing’ army/navy banter would also ‘suggest’ the same thing but it isn’t so. Burgwinkle by name Burgwinkle by nature.
Yes, indeed. The BBC is enraged by those US Churches which claim they can ‘pray out the gay’ but has no problem with charlatans claiming that every guy who ever lived was a closet case who just needed some therapy (church for liberals) to get over his repression.
Bill Burgwinkle from Wikipedia
His research focuses on vernacular literature, especially the Occitan troubadours, gender and queer theory, hagiography, and the history and travels of medieval manuscripts.
“queer theory…”
Is there anyone left in academia doing anything useful? You know, engineering, real science (any scientific discipline that doesn’t include the word “environmental”), medicine…?
What an enormous drain, financially and culturally, these cockends must be on our society.
Good grief – disclaimer before I start ranting, I am no homophobe and find some of the cooments on this site a bit to virulent for my taste – but I really do believe in freedomof expression. having said that, FFS!!”%$**! Queer Theory – a man specialising in it is fairly certain to find Gomorrahn tendancies in anything he looks at. I have not seen the show but an examination of masulinity by a feminist and an academic publishing such as “sodomy, masculinity and the law in medieval literature” is unlikely to have anything to say that is not profoundly influenced by his pre – judice – hie existing mindset. Clearly this show has been set up to ‘challenge’ existing views. This is an entirely legitimate complaint against the BBC and its manifold institutional biases – not a hint of homophobia. I imagine if they asked a fanatical evangelical christian from West Africa to contributre to a programme about the incidence of so called demonic posession and witchcraft amongst London based Africans he would find that there were real bona-fide satanic spirits and Kindoki daemons running riot throughout the metropolis. He would find them everywhere.
I am fairly sure that some knights were gay. So what? lots of people are, but nowhere near the fictitious one in ten promugated by the gay lobby.
Disgusted
Is Burgwinkle a homosexual, or does he simply campaign for homosexuality as his money spinner with the pink BBC?
Well the second part of his surname does mean “bent” in germanic languages (well…”angle”, anyway) and “bög” (pronounced “burg”) is the Swedish word for shirt lifter. So..inconclusive then.
Not being homophobic, Scotty, just having a little joke.
Think sense of humour bypass and you’ll understand.
‘Cultural historian Bill Burgwinkle introduces some revealing songs which suggest there was a strong homosexual subculture among knights’.
Thought this must be some kind of satire as first off I read that as ‘Bill Burglewinkle’ and fell about laughing. Sounded like a gay BBC reporter created by Viz.
What have taekwondo and homosexuality got in common?
We know people do it but we hardly know any and very few on first name terms. Scott on this site represents 20% of the gay men I have ever met and talked to.
Don’t get me wrong, I have absolutely nothing against gays and I am more than happy they have the same protections and freedoms as the mainstream. One of my favourite customers is gay and I always enjoy his company and I count him as a friend.
What I find sad though is the desperation of a certain segment of the gay community for perpetual validation. They are not happy unless they are overly represented in TV drama comedy and news. Now we have this strange revisionist history. Apparently most of the Romans were gay as we’re the Greeks and now knights, if we are to believe bbc TV historians. It’s funny how very out gay proff starkey doesn’t seem to liberally sprinkle the odd gay in his telling of history. Where it is relevant then he may bring it up but not every history book needs to contain a gay chapter but every BBC history show has to.
As for the Christian thing , the Beeb are laughable, ignoring abuse by Muslims ignoring sexual mutilation, slavery of women persecution of minorities including gays and wanton murder and planned genocide, while blaming everything bad in the world on mid west American Christians and those pesky jooze
Well said. The BBC’s version of history has so many gay people in it that it is difficult to understand how the human race managed to continue. The only procreation was, presumably, by an heroic minority of the overwhelmingly homosexual populace who were forced into marriage by the oppressive right wing government / ruler / church of the time.