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How To Live With Women, BBC Three | reviews, news & interviews

How To Live With Women, BBC Three

How To Live With Women, BBC Three

More disposable drama from the BBC's backdoor channel

I think there's something between us: the BBC's latest not-at-all-gratuitous spin on gender relations

Meet Tom. He’s an Essex geezer with all the charm of a used toothpick, whose idea of romance is a cheeseburger on a bench in the Sainsbury’s car park. He can’t hold down a job, spends all girlfriend Cherelle’s money down the bookies, and expects her to cook, clean and run his bath – once she’s finished working two jobs of course. Enter the gum-chewing, ratings-chasing BBC Three guardian angel, ready to solve the problem in the most dramatic, exploitative and tabloid way possible. With the help of three “inspirational” female mentors, Tom must repent, change his wicked ways, and learn the secret of How To Live With Women.

Meet Tom. He’s an Essex geezer with all the charm of a used toothpick, whose idea of romance is a cheeseburger on a bench in the Sainsbury’s car park. He can’t hold down a job, spends all girlfriend Cherelle’s money down the bookies, and expects her to cook, clean and run his bath – once she’s finished working two jobs of course. Enter the gum-chewing, ratings-chasing BBC Three guardian angel, ready to solve the problem in the most dramatic, exploitative and tabloid way possible. With the help of three “inspirational” female mentors, Tom must repent, change his wicked ways, and learn the secret of How To Live With Women.

It’s hard not to feel that the fake tan forcibly administered to Tom, dodgy shower cap and all, is punishment enough for his misdeeds

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I think Take Me Out is very sexist. Sexism is when you do to one gender what you cant do to another.. which is basically Take Me Out. Very sexist show.

As an oldie, still trying to fathom the mysteries of womanhood, I watched this with growing dismay. True, Tom was in need of a wake-up call, He needed to change drastically. But, it was one-sided! It was slanted towards the idea, that men should treat women in a certain way, that I find laughable. Pandering to a woman is not my idea of a relationship. We too easily fall into stereotypical behaviours, not being aware of just how much freedom of choice there is, within male-female relationships. 'Wife swap' is a similar programme, but both partners are made aware of their 'life-pattern'. In this, the woman just waits for the man to be brainwashed into some kind of servitude! I hope thats not women in general want.

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