You do wonder at the culture that prevailed at the BBC. When did it change, I wonder?
An alleged victim of Dave Lee Travis said when she worked at the BBC in the mid-1970s ‘it was common practice to have tongues down your throat, tongues in your ear, bums being squeezed’.
The woman, who claims the veteran DJ pinned her up against a wall and groped her while presenting his Radio 1 show, said she learned to deal with the ‘unwanted attention’ the longer she worked there. She also told jurors at Southwark Crown Court that when she tried to complain about Travis’ alleged behaviour, the corporation ignored her and ‘slammed the door’ in her face.
I guess the atmosphere at the BBC changed with the ascent of Labour prior to them winning power in 97. Wimmen began to rule, ex nurses who became hospital managers on double the pay or head teachers on fantastic pay or they became women vicars. Political correctness went mad. No man dare offer a seat nor hold open a door. Yes, in the 1970’s there were men with wandering hands, but as a woman you dealt with it.
Well said, workplaces have become a sterile, fun free minefield since the 90’s.
I can’t tell if that is sarcasm or not but as much as you have to be overly pc in every aspect of life, groping women isn’t exactly something that should be allowed….
Now where did I say that?
By jumping to that conclusion it would appear that you have attended too many feminist run diversity courses …
Yes I have been on too many feminist run diversity courses….they make us go on one every year.
So it seems the BBC’s exculpatory plea before any inquiry or at the Court of Public Opinion is “we have changed”. Or another line is “it was a different time then”.
Except the activities of Savile and his cohorts were criminal and such an excuse doesn’t wash.
And they were still trying to cover it up after Savile died.
And they were still trying to smear an innocent man to take the heat off (who happened to be a Conservative peer).
Such pleas of mitigation after denial, cover up and then lying….. No it does not work
Frank Words, times were different then. There were wandering hands, but a firm tap got rid of them. Which doesn’t lessen the Savile and his cohort’s crimes and I agree with you that the BBC’s claims (for many things) is that the BBC has changed; and then they carry on as if nothing has happened. But some of the claims I am reading from witnesses at these trials are that they have been damaged for life suggests they were or have become vulnerable women or they are wanting large sums for damages. I am not sure which. However I can be sure that the way the trials are reported on the BBC will be that the BBC is not to blame.
Am I really living in a country where trying to snog someone 40 years ago, or being rude to someone on twitter can wind up in a prison sentence?
FFS, what’s happened to this country?
But bankrupting the economy, sending thousands to die in non-mandated wars with minimal public support or lying about someone in the media often results in a pay-rise.
Party lines don’t really come into it either, the whole establishment has been corrupt for some time now and the BBC is 100% compliant in it while attempting to look like it’s challenging it.
But,but, in the 70s and 80s the BBC kept saying how sexist men were in the 1950s and it was so wonderful because everything had changed.
But now we find out that the BBC allowed Savile free reign because according to the BBC everyone was doing it and children were seen as exotic.
What a bunch of hypocrites.
Perhaps I moved in the wrong circles but to me the ’70’s were the Decade that Taste Forgot. Ugly fashions, Disco, Punk and ugly attitudes. Even so, I was taught to treat women with respect and, despite living amongst troglodytes the vast majority of men I knew did. Gropers were looked down on and molesters would be lucky not to get lynched.
So what went wrong? How did we go from respecting women to groping them to femi-nazism in 30 years?
The question is, did you live amongst troglodytes who felt they were generally above the law, looked down on such bourgeois values, and had a massive bias to the Left, like at the BBC during that period?
Yes and no.
There were those for whom the law was merely a nuisance to be avoided but they were a small minority.
Their values were not bourgeois but working class. Known wife beaters were shunned and men who took liberties with the wrong girl got a beating.
And yes most voted Labour. But then Labour was about working class issues, on the face of it, and not the Alinsky-esque nonsense that it now spouts.
the allegations of sexual going ons at the bbc seems to have spread to the liberal party just recently,scandal after scandal has blighted the bbc and both the liberal party in recent years,covers up and sweeping these issues under the carpet seems to be a culture that has been exposed with these organisations,every damm night i switch on the news it is just another story or court cases involving wrong doings involving alleged allegations of sexual abuse involving employees of both the bbc and liberal party,what has really made me sick this week is these false crimes figures that have been released,the police have admiited that they dont record crimes involving sexual abuse,rape or paedophilia in these crime figures,why is that and what have they got to hide i must wonder.
Let’s also not forget the alleged goings-on in the Socialist Workers (sic) Party. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/09/socialist-workers-party-rape-kangaroo-court
What is it with these leftys?