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Hallo Readers,

WTF is still reeling from watching Adolescence, an extraordinary drama on Netflix. It is without question one of the best television series of the last decade. It starts with the arrest of a 13-year-old boy for murdering a girl from his school. He is from an ordinary working-class family somewhere up north. At first, no one can understand what motive he could have had for the crime, but it becomes clear that he has become brainwashed by the disgusting misogynist filth pumped out on the Internet by the likes of Andrew Tate and others ranting on about the Manosphere and the 80%/20% theory, namely that 80% of women are attracted to only 20% of men, leaving the majority involuntarily celibate and angry. And there is of course also the poison of pornography, leading confused men and boys to believe that every woman is gagging for it.

Monday 17 March was Saint Patrick’s Day. President 47 marked the occasion by inviting a special guest to the Oval Office, namely MMA fighter Connor McGregor. Last year, McGregor was ordered by an Irish civil court to pay  €248,000 to a woman who said he had “brutally raped and battered” her in a hotel.  He is appealing the decision and says the sex was consensual.  Time was when a man adjudicated to have sexually assaulted a woman would have faded from public view, at least if and until he had cleared his name. Time also was when the President of the United States would not have sullied the White House by issuing an invitation to a man adjudicated to have sexually assaulted a woman. But of course, we are not living in that time. 47 is himself a man adjudicated by a New York civil court to have sexually assaulted a woman, and he was then elected a second time to the highest office in the land. (He denies it and says he had never met the woman at all and anyway she wasn’t his type). His Secretary of State for Defence, Pete Hegseth, was confirmed in that post by a majority of the Senate, despite his having paid a woman a large sum of money to silence her claims that he had raped her – he was married at the time to his second wife and had just fathered a child by the woman who was to become his third wife. (He denies rape and says the sex was consensual). Hegseth was present in the Oval Office when McGregor came to call. And recently, 47’s envoy persuaded the Romanian government to allow Andrew Tate and his brother to fly to Florida, despite their being charged in Romania with rape, assault and sex trafficking (they deny it etc) . According to the Tates’ US lawyer, “they feel secure in America for several reasons, the primary one being that [47] is the President”. WTF is equally depressed and unsurprised by that statement. How are young men to learn any respect for women, and to see them as something other than orifices to be filled for their sexual gratification, when McGregor and Hegseth and the Tates and 47 are feted and respected and given special treatment? Oh, and by the way, McGregor has announced his intention to run for President of Ireland. What a role model he will be.

Back in the UK this week, former England manager Sir Gareth Southgate, a good and decent man, gave the Richard Dimbleby lecture on the BBC. The subject was helping young men to find the way forward. He said, “Young men are suffering. They are feeling isolated. They’re grappling with their masculinity and with their broader place in society….They spend more time online searching for direction and are falling into unhealthy alternatives like gaming, gambling and pornography And this void is filled by a new kind of role model who do not have their best interest at heart. These are callous, manipulative and toxic influencers, whose sole drive is for their own gain. They willingly trick young men into believing that success is measured by money or dominance, never showing emotion, and that the world – including women – is against them. They are as far away as you could possibly get from the role models our young men need in their lives.”  He is of course absolutely right. We have to act now before it is too late. But perhaps it already is.

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We start our review of the week’s fashion fiascos on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and newly-honoured Gal Gadot, wearing Jil Sander.

On any view, this is a very ridiculous garment. She looks like that weird German creature, der Strohmann, only in sandals.

Now we encounter actor Ruth Negga at the apple tv+ premiere of Number One on the Call Sheet, wearing Prada.

So here is an ornate dress dissected to expose Ruth’s midsection and then joined together by a belt with caribiner clips, which is marooned in the middle of her middle and seems to be of as much use as tits on a fish. The whole thing puts WTF in mind of a woman sawn in half by a magician.

This is South Korean rapper and singer-songwriter J-Hope appearing on “The Tonight Show” wearing Coach. Scroll down slowly….

One’s eye does not know what to look away from first. Is it the jacket and waistcoat worn without anything underneath it and exposing his twee little torso? Is it the trompe l’oeil trewsies, which look as if they are open to the elements complete wkith penis peek but in fact have suede inserts? Or is the Watership Down fluffy slippers? It is like a nightmare where a vicious cowboy in shitty chaps jumps up and down on some bunnies. Epic fail.

Now are we are the iHeart Radio Awards in Los Angeles where we find singer Benson Boone.

No, sorry, he looks like a dickhead. WTF is he wearing? The words “lounge lizard”  made flesh.

Also present was hip-hop artist Glorilla wearing who even can say what this is?

The dress is horribly horrible, resembling a badly laced corset worn back to front. More horrible still is the depth of the plunge, so that you do not know what are you looking at and wish that you weren’t.

Here is actor Tori Spelling, who was Donna Martin in Beverly Hills, 90210, from 1990 to 2000. (Her dad produced it. Just saying).

WTF is sadly obliged to point out that there has been substantial intereference with the workings of nature. Tori’s look seems to be modelled on Brunhilde Barbie, although it must be said that the latter appears to be considerably less plastic than the former.

And finally, we have singer JoJo Siwa …well, you be the judge. Parts of this ensemble are by Versace, but WTF is unsure which parts these are, other than the panties. 

Blimey. It’s Tinky Winky in trainers. Eh-oh!!!

This week’s It’s Got To Go comes from WTF aficionado and proud Geordie,  Yvonne (now) from Jedburgh. Yes, it is second week running for Yvonne to nominate “It’s Got To Go” but she is again right on the nail. She is thrilled that Newcastle United won their first domestic competition since, get this, 1955. They beat the mighty Liverpool at Wembley on Sunday to win the Carabao Cup, guaranteeing them a place in European competition next season. But the downside is this. Brace yourselves…..

Geordies are very hardy people and wander around their lovely city half naked while softie Southerners are wrapped up in big coats, boots and thermals. But honest, God-fearing citizens, whether they live in the North or the South, should not have to be confronted with giant paunches like tattooed  pregnant buffaloes. Yvonne’s message is “put those beer bellies away lads”. Hear hear. It’s Got to Go.

Ok Readers, that’s your lot for this week please keep sending in your top suggestions for It’s Got to Go as well as your comments, which WTF much enjoys. You can follow me on @wtffashionshark.bsky.social. Let us meet again next Friday. Be good x