If there’s one factor we’ve come to be taught, it’s that you simply can not belief the British Government to get something proper about fashionable tradition (or something else, actually). But the most recent little bit of style farce from the halls of Westminster within the UK may simply be taking the biscuit for its most ludicrous entry into the tradition struggle to this point.

Conservative MP Nick Fletcher—greatest identified for being actually unhealthy about trying to fake visits to his own constituents—lately lead a Parliamentary debate for International Men’s Day. You’d suppose such a factor can be a possibility British officers to advocate for higher psychological well being assist for males (roughly three quarters of the individuals who died by suicide in the UK in 2020 have been male), or something really helpful as an alternative of it being a cudgel utilized by clueless individuals to complain when it’s International Women’s Day. Instead, Fletcher took the prospect to rail in opposition to so-called-“woke” initiatives, the perceived existence of poisonous masculinity, and the best menace dealing with each single man in Britain immediately: Jodie Whittaker being on Doctor Who.

“Everywhere, not at least within the cultural sphere, there seems to be a call from a tiny, but very vocal minority that every male character or good role model must have a female replacement,” Fletcher talked about in his feedback (by way of the BBC). “One only needs to look at the discussions about who will play the next James Bond—and it’s not just James Bond. In recent years we’ve seen Doctor Who, Ghostbusters, Luke Skywalker, the Equalizer, all replaced by women.”

“Men are left with the Krays and Tommy Shelby,” Fletcher continued, referring to, presumably, the 2015 Tom Hardy film Legend concerning the prison Kray twins, and the BBC interval crime drama Peaky Blinders, revolving round crime households in 1900s Birmingham. “Is there any wonder we are seeing so many young men committing crime?”

Reader, I too can not consider that every one fictional males have been Thanos snapped, particularly the males in Ghostbusters, or Luke Skywalker, who was actually on Television Last Year. Thankfully a few of Fletcher’s friends within the debate have been simply as incredulous as we’re about his galaxy-brained correlation. Labour Party chair Anneliese Dodd first advised Fletcher she thought she had misheard what he mentioned, earlier than merely including that points dealing with males within the UK have been “far more complex” than “who should be the next 007.” After spending a lot of yesterday being clowned on for the remarks, Fletcher posted a follow-up statement on social media defending his “rather nuanced” argument, including that “I did not link a Dr Who being female to crime being committed by men,” regardless of that being a factor he did in actual fact say. “In fact, I was making a statement that boys and young men also need positive role models within the media, just as women do.”

Oh wherever will they get them? No doubt Fletcher is very excited to see who turns up within the TARDIS when Whittaker exits Doctor Who subsequent yr, as am I, particularly to see what crime I will likely be allowed to rise up to ought to the long run Time Lord be feminine.

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