Middle-Aged Women Don't Want to Use Their Power To Harm You

So don't harm us when we're younger and we won't have to

Those waking up on the other side of the world might be wondering what all the fuss is about, why women in the UK are talking about ‘middle class women of a certain age’. Let me explain.

Over here in the UK, there is a TV chef called Gregg Wallace. He shot to fame from greengrocer to prime time TV host of shows like BBC’s Masterchef. I don’t really know much more about him apart from that, though I have heard the stories – for years.

In the last week or so he has been accused of inappropriate sexual ‘banter’ (as he sees it) with production staff and contestants on his show. I believe some have also accused him of groping. He has been suspended from his show, and he went on Instagram to bemoan this fact minimising his alleged crimes as ‘just’ thirteen complaints from a handful of ‘middle-class women of a certain age.’

Now this is man’s speak, this is short-hand, in Gregg’s world (on a market stall, down the pub, in the locker room, hell, perhaps even a gentleman’s board meeting), this us…