Gregg Wallace may be a creep but is he a misogynist? Readers discuss
Have your say on these MetroTalk topics and more in the comments.
So, is Gregg Wallace a misogynist?
‘Is there noone to tell him to stop acting like a caveman’
Wallace denies he’s done anything wrong but he’s a misogynist and that includes how he speaks about his wife and what he expects from her. Are there no strong females in his life, such as his adult daughter, willing to tell him he’s acting like a caveman?
It’s as well to remember this man was a self-confessed Millwall football hooligan in the 1980s who would likely have enjoyed having ‘a ruck’ every weekend.
Seems like he has always been a pompous no-mark… Ellie, via email
Or, is he just a sexist?
‘Sexism and misogyny are not the same’
You would think that someone as well educated as prime minister Sir Keir Starmer would not use the word misogynistic so flippantly in describing Wallace’s behaviour (Metro, Tue).
Misogyny means a ‘hatred or dislike of women’. Gregg Wallace may be sexist, lewd or maybe chauvinistic.
But from what I’ve seen in the media there’s no evidence of misogyny. The words ‘sexism’ and ‘misogyny’ are not interchangeable. John, Brighton
He said he has a ‘problem’ with certain women…
So Gregg Wallace has a ‘problem’ with women of a certain class/age. I suggest it is the other way round! Sara (64), Cheltenham
Greg Wallace – not so much coq au vin, as cocky vain. Russ, Stockport
It’s not all men but it’s almost always a man
There are ready available statistics that say so
Paul from London (MetroTalk, Tue) is against using the term ‘male violence’ when talking about assaults by men against women.
He says doing so ‘alienates’ the majority of men who are innocent and supporters of the cause. It’s a shame Paul seems more offended about it being called ‘male violence’ than the fact that women and girls are getting murdered.
The statistics are readily available for the public and it’s a shame that a majority of those deaths are at the hands of men. It’s not all men but almost always a man. Angelika, Birmingham
Donald Trump has multiple sexual assault allegations… What does that mean for women and girls?
Do those who voted him (women included) take sexual crime seriously?
Here’s a question: How on earth are we supposed to deal with the ingrained societal cancer of violence against women and girls when the once and soon-to-be leader of the free world – one Donald Trump – is a man accused of multiple sexual assaults.
Yet 77million people voted for him even after he freely admitted to habitually groping women.
The future president of the most powerful country in the world is a fox guarding a chicken coop, backed up by tens of millions of people – including tens of millions of women – who clearly do not take sexual crime remotely seriously.
Something is extremely wrong here and it will take a lot of hard work from all of us to fix it. Ryan Cooper, London
Bringing awareness to the pain people with terminal illness have to go through
‘It’s so important to share these stories‘
I just wanted to thank Mike Longhurst (MetroTalk, Tue), for sharing his heartfelt story about the ‘utterly pointless month of pain, indignity, fear, anxiety and almost unendurable discomfort’ of his 43-year-old daughter, Kate, dying of cancer.
It’s so important to share these stories to bring awareness to the pain that people live with in these situations but also the people left behind.
It’s reassuring his beloved Kate received wonderful palliative care but she should have had the power to decide to ‘select the off switch,’ as Mike said.
My thoughts are with you, Mike, and your family at this time. Sarah Russell, Howdon