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Greg Wallace's autism excuse for sexually inappropriate behaviour

TheCatWoman

I don't know if anyone has seen anything about this, but Masterchef presenter Greg Wallace has been sacked for sexually inappropriate behaviour towards numerous women over a number of years. At first he dismissed the complaints against him as middle class women of a certain age who didn't understand his humour and some of making it up.

Now he says' he's autistic, and my first thought was 'Really?' I think he's trying to use autism as an excuse for bad behaviour, I don't know of any autistic people who think it's OK to remove thier trousers, when wearing no underwear in front of female collegues, open the front door to someone wearing only a towel and then remove that towel once they're inside, or run down the street after them touching thier backsides. I've never heard of this sort of disinhibition being an autistic trait, he's still in denial that what he did was wrong and now says he's autistic like that makes it OK.

It's not OK, it's not OK for anyone autistic or not and I think that a man of his age would know that. What really annoys me is the feeling that he's attempting to jump on a bandwagon and use his "diagnosis" as an excuse, for inappropriate behaviour, giving te impression that all autistic people are like him.

I think we should start standing up to people like him and the media coverage they get using autism as an excuse.

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  • He's made his money even though his career is potentially over - so you do wonder why he can't just accept it - rather than seemingly say it's now his new discovered "Autism".

    Why it's gone on for so long and covered up by everyone on the production teams.  I mean I'm pretty sure if I dropped my kegs in the office - it wouldn't take 50 times before something was said. Good old BEEB

  • in reply to Jalapeno

    The production company Banijay are the ones who should of picked it up, the BBC, like so many others uses programes made by outside companies, little is made inhouse anymore. Most of the women he exposed himself too were young self employed junior team members, they felt unable to complain or had their complaints dismissed because they feared getting a reputation as trouble makers and not working again.

    This sort of power imbalance is why so many people like Wallace get away with atrocious behaviour for so long, the younger you are the less able you feel to complain and possibly lose your career, thsts why its older women, more established in thier careers who do complain, then that opens the door for the others who've previously felt powerless.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    The bottom line is that Wallace is responsible for his bad behaviour.

    Yes, such dreadful behaviour should have been picked up Banijay, and now it is looking like it could be complicit in Wallace’s actions by it turning a blind eye.

    I think the Wallace case can be turned into an opportunity to show that autism is not an excuse for bad behaviour. I am glad the BBC and others have given this story prominence. A high profile story like this could work in our favour in the end.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    The bottom line is that Wallace is responsible for his bad behaviour.

    Yes, such dreadful behaviour should have been picked up Banijay, and now it is looking like it could be complicit in Wallace’s actions by it turning a blind eye.

    I think the Wallace case can be turned into an opportunity to show that autism is not an excuse for bad behaviour. I am glad the BBC and others have given this story prominence. A high profile story like this could work in our favour in the end.

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