The latest resurfacing of BBC footage that normalizes absurd and dangerous ideas has rightly set off a firestorm of outrage across mainstream and independent media. What began as a segment in the BBC-acquired documentary We Need to Talk About Cosby has now been amplified by commentators and podcasters who see it for what it is: elite media giving oxygen to moral rot under the guise of “debate.”
One of the clips at the center of the controversy features Sonalee Rashatwar — billed as a sex therapist — suggesting an “idyllically sex-positive world” where conscious women could be paid to be drugged so others can enact a fetish for sex with unconscious people. The casualness of that language should horrify every American who still believes consent matters and that predators are not to be normalized or accommodated.
Predictably, the BBC waved this away as “broader cultural commentary” from a documentary contributor, a cowardly dodge that speaks to institutional rot. When national broadcasters start arguing that fringe fantasies deserve the same platform as common-sense decency, you know the gatekeepers have abandoned their role as guardians of public morality.
Conservative voices like Dave Rubin and his guests have been flagging these clips and exposing how the media elite treat toxic ideas as mere diversity of thought. Rubin’s roundtable and the resurfaced DM clip circulated online are part of a much-needed corrective: ordinary Americans should not have to accept their values being mocked or erased on taxpayer-funded or highly influential platforms.
This episode dovetails with a separate scandal over health guidance that makes Americans uneasy: the claim by a UK hospital trust that milk produced by trans women via induced lactation is “comparable” to the milk of someone who has given birth. That pronouncement — promoted by identity-driven language like “human milk” and “chestfeeding” — was based on thin evidence and has opened a sensible debate about infant safety versus ideological signaling.
Serious medical voices and fact-checkers have raised red flags, pointing out the sparse research and the real risks tied to the drugs sometimes used to induce lactation. When treatments like domperidone are involved, which regulators have warned about, the default must be to protect babies and mothers, not to placate woke experiments in social engineering. Institutions owe the public better than rushed policy shaped by ideology rather than evidence.
Americans who value common sense should demand accountability: the BBC needs to answer why it amplifies harmful fringes, hospitals must put patient safety above trendy language, and media platforms should stop pretending every opinion is equally worthy of a podium. This isn’t about silencing debate — it’s about defending women, children, and the basic standards of consent and medical prudence that keep our communities safe.
