Tessa ‘I’m a Doctor, don’t you know’ Dunlop is, so I’m told, a historian, journalist and broadcaster.
She’s also seemly ubiquitous, popping up just about anywhere in the media these days to give us her considered opinion on any subject under the sun (often, quite coincidentally, with a new book to punt at the same time; who’d have thought it).
Now that’s fair enough, I suppose, but what really grates on me about this professional gobshite is her attitude. She’s very often rude, condescending, and sometimes downright loud and aggressive to anyone who has the temerity to disagree with her. Here she is in full on ‘passive-aggressive’ mode with that most affable of presenters, Laurence Fox;
Now just imagine her outrage, and that of the sisterhood, if the roles here had been reversed. You’d have heard the cries of ‘bullying!!’ and ‘misogyny!!’ from here to Timbuktu. A bit of misandry and spite against the mild-mannered and inoffensive Fox is alright though.
Dunlop is obviously an educated woman, but all too often, her ‘go to’ method in any discussion is to bluster and abuse when she can’t get her way. If I tune in to anything these days and find that she’s ‘one of the panel’, it’s an instant turn-off for me. Life’s too short to watch some loud and unpleasant cow getting her knickers in a twist.
Nominated by: Ron Knee



