Because the impact area expands well beyond those primarily impacted.
Aside from the actual incident, and whatever preceded it, there's a whole load of social media personal issue projection onto this.
In the US you may not have come across the 'bullying'** incident(s) which has recently tarnished
Strictly. There's a whole spectrum of responses to that as well.
I don't wish to add to this by going into detail, nor the social media responses.
@pianistamediano has already referred to the type of response
Well, it's turned into an absolute shitshow on Facebook, and I've run out of popcorn already but the shops are closed
Plenty of
all men this,
all men that,
patriarchy everything,
feminazis,
not all men, et cetera.
so I won't go into details. You can look them up. Traumatic personal life problems get projected onto 'dance' in general, and the male sex in particular. Obviously this incident is AT in particular and associated perceptions of toxic attitudes, which have been aired previously.
The
Strictly incident, coupled with others in high-level sports training, impacts any training (and, in other events, there's certainly a documented incident of an advertised paediatrician's consulting rooms being attacked because the low-intellects don't know the difference between that and a paedophile - and consider such actions appropriate). I appreciate the courage of any young male now considering working with young children. You will doubtless be aware of the toxic nature of some of these unfounded conspiracy theories promoted by those who should know better
As the saying goes:
It has legs. It's difficult enough getting males into dance. I don't see that this incident will help.
** I can say 'bullying' because the BBC has accepted the verbal 'bullying' claims, but not others.
PS - let's not divert into these. I only give them as examples of the expanded impact area beyond publicly trashing lifetime careers of individuals within the narrow focus of this performance.
