"It’s Just Banter!" - The Universal Excuse for Being Awful
"Just banter" is the oldest excuse in the book for bad behaviour - power, prejudice, and control hiding behind a cheap punchline.
As many of you will be unsurprised by, Gregg Wallace’s defenders are out in full force today, trotting out the same old tired excuses we’ve all heard before when a man is finally exposed for, to put it lightly, being a weapons-grade misogynist dickhead.
We all know the refrains:
“It’s just banter!”
“He was only joking!”
“People are too sensitive these da…
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