Why, I say why, is the State Broadcaster spending money on trying to tell me how to fuck?
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Mungo no understand – why is some midlife crisis between bored suburban couples the responsibility of the State Broadcaster?
This drive to tell me how to fuck isn’t just limited to TVNZ, it’s all over Stuff as well!
I was saying just the other day that what NZ needs more of is another poorly watched strident feminist podcast noting how shit NZ men are at sex, a lo and behold, we now have it!
The Good Sex Project: Why are Kiwis having so much average sex?
In the series’ first episode, we meet three people who’ve had plenty of pretty average sex and not-so-healthy relationships.
One of those, Chloe*, is a young Kiwi woman who’s had 45 different sexual partners. She goes on to describe how much bad sex she’s had along the way (spoiler alert – all of it).
What is surprising is that on one of the podcasts, there was almost a suggestion that heteronormative sex might be pleasurable in some form, which is a shock editorial change of direction for Stuff!
TVNZ, our public broadcaster has extended into meaningless middle class lifestyle wank in their pursuit for relevancy…
New Life section among changes to 1News.co.nz
1News.co.nz has launched a new Life section, offering stories about psychology, work, play, parenting, health, food, gardening, architecture and style.
The Life section is one of several new additions to the website, with quizzes, email newsletters and fresh video series also introduced.
The Life section, led by award-winning magazine editor Emily Simpson, launched this morning with some clever op-shopping tips from stylish thrifters such as Miriama Kamo, and a look at the new success-oriented self-help books aimed at men by the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dan Carter.
…it’s like The Spinoff BUT SMUGGER!
How the Zombie Christ do they manage to make it more condescending than The Spinoff?
Part of it is the naked stress of the last election and rise in abuse towards Journalists. This desperate effort to find ways to bond with their audience beyond politics is an attempt to humanise TVNZ which is understandable but ultimately damaging to the issues they are covering because depoliticised news media is a capitulation of Fourth Estate obligations, not a championing of them.
TVNZ has to generate more pap to draw advertising models to and their depoliticised middle class Lifestyle section is the perfect virtue signal for that.
Ugh.
We face a Hard Right Romper Stomper of a Government who are going to bash the bejesus out of drug addicts, the disabled, beneficiaries, workers, renters, prisoners, the environment, the 300 000 living in electricity and housing poverty and the 600 000 reliant on Food banks each month – and a depoliticised living room of middle class aspiration is where our public broadcaster is deciding to move towards because viewers are fatigued.
I’d like NZ on Air to spend less time on telling me how to fuck and more time on the actual challenges NZ faces but if we are going to talk about those issues, why is it that bored middle class lesbian couples trying to spice up their sagging libido’s is the main issue?
I think sex has become infinity more complicated and young men are not doing well…
…we have raised a generation of women to fear every male of rape while raising a generation of men who fear being accused of rape.
Alongside these grim stats is the argument men have privilege which has led to a poisonous toxic masculinity that spawns incel hate algorithms with a violent misogyny.
The beauty of social media is that it is unforgiving and we are all now unforgivable. Outage Olympics fuels resentment and the most dangerous part of identity politics is when white men become the victim.
Tell young men they are the problem long enough and they become the problem.
we are seeing alienated angry young men attempting to commit terrible violence to express their insignificance, their jealousy and their misplaced entitlement.
I fear we are now in a culture loop of violence that can not be broken thanks to social media.
Men feel alienated, the woke scream, men become more disengaged, internet porn robs intimacy, women start becoming far more picky in terms of earning power and educational level of potential partners, men blame women/society for their insecurities and personal failings and men commit terrible violence as their fuck you to a society that only cares about male pain when it explodes.
I’m looking forward to those dynamics being explored on the new NZ on Air sex podcast.
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So what you are saying Matryn is less ‘how to’ and more ‘let’s face it, we are all’ .
Woke left media now literally teaching how to clusterfuck.
Dont worry, Im sure no one will want to f*k you.
People have far too many assumptions about relationships, and a lack of ability to recognise abusive relationships.
We should have the conversation. Though I don’t expect journalists/columnists to help.
Why is some midlife crisis between bored suburban couples the responsibility of the State Broadcaster? Because that’s how the State Broadcaster is staffed. Don’t take anything they say to heart, or personally.
If we taught young men not to treat females as sex objects they would not live in fear of being accused of rape. You can probably guess that my view is that intimacy should be a husband & wife privilege however I accept that society has other views. If we could just learn that relationships should be based on mutual respect & not selfishness we would be a long way on the journey to safer relationships.
Martyn – TVNZ is getting more silly by the day
I suppose there will be a lot of local swingers clubs in the burbs opening-up in places like Grey Lynn and Remmers soon where you can trade in, I mean go and take a look at what’s up!
Hopefully, the kids aren’t watching Mum, Dad, and ‘Uncle’ Jim having a bash while watching TVNZ broadcast instructions during prime time. Good times!!
“Men feel alienated, the woke scream, men become more disengaged, internet porn robs intimacy, women start becoming far more picky in terms of earning power and educational level of potential partners, men blame women/society for their insecurities and personal failings and men commit terrible violence as their fuck you to a society that only cares about male pain when it explodes.
I’m looking forward to those dynamics being explored on the new NZ on Air sex podcast.”
They’ll need to get Jordan Peterson as their content consultant for that to happen.
You have covered this well Martyn. We may note how the mad ones of the PTB are forcing their obsessions on us, that’s keeping up with the state of dis-ease. But we may have to limit it to one a month as the cardboard brain shapes of the woke absorb more moisture in the hot summer days. Their first task is learn to stop wallowing in self-love and then their hearts will be open to encounter that feeling of rapport with people with traits that ‘fit’ to build a combined life with.