Whingeing on Steroids

by Les May

SEXUAL harassment of female performers at the Edinburgh Fringe is a problem, or at least the BBC would have us believe so.  If this was a serious news item whoever put it together might have found a couple of better and more convincing interviewees than we were offered.

The first complained that when she offered a flyer for her show to three young men they said they would only take it if she put her phone number on the back. Shocking isn’t it?

I could have said that she ‘accosted’ three young men out for a stroll down the Royal Mile and tried to press on them an advertising flyer, which would have been an equally correct version of what happened.

The second complained that a gentleman of mature years had approached a police officer about the amount of flesh being shown by her and the other women in her troupe who had built their performance around something to do with the #MeToo ‘movement’.  So that’s alright then.

Seemingly the police officer concluded that the troupes costume, or possibly lack of it, did not transcend the bounds of public decency and sent them on their way.   The complainant said that the actions of the man who approached the policeman amounted to ‘harassment’.

Both these women were whingeing aided and abetted by the BBC. 

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