Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:

“A hilarious contribution to the current panic about “toxic masculinity”. The first funny bit is of course that the “event” only works if one assumes the “firefighters” are in fact firemen, for it would be of no note if they were women. The second is it highlights the most frivolous and vain aspect of “femininity” and of course it looks pretty naive because right from the early 70s young men, Heavy Rockers, Goths, Punks, Metalheads and on and on have painted their nails! Its hardly something new or profound.

No doubt it livened up a boring Wednesday afternoon for the watch at the station and of course I’m sure the firemen were won over by the idea of “allyship”, yet another project to prevent nasty men hurting women. After all the very easiest ask of masculine men, to protect women and children.”

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