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he's a review from BBC Learning English Hello and welcome to News Review The program where we show you how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English I'm Catherine and joining me Today is done.

Our story is about the Exposure Oven online bullying group, which targeted women.

There's more about this story from this BBC Will Service News report.

Several French media executives and journalists have been suspended or fired because of their alleged involvement with the Facebook group used to bully female colleagues.

Online reports say the closed group, called League of L.

O L, ridiculed women for years, cracking jokes about rape, culture and targeting women with pornographic means.

Its founder, the journalist Vincent Glad, apologized on Twitter.

So it seems that a number of largely male French media workers have been harassing their female colleagues online for a number of years.

They formed a closed Facebook group, which was called the League of L O L, and used it to send offensive images, including pornography, that purposely targeted those women.

They were exposed by the French newspaper Liberation and the founder of the group.

Thank you down on You've been looking at what the world's media is saying about this story, and you picked out three words and expressions that we're going to look at today.

We've got Boys Club ridiculed and turns sour.

Can we look at your first headline, please certainly can.

So the first headline comes from The Guardian and says French Boys Club of Journalists accused of bullying women online Boys club situation or group controlled by men and often excluding others.

Now, Dan, if I'm not mistaken, you were a boy Scout, weren't you?

Lots of camping, lots of fires, fishing, that kind of stuff.

Yeah, and the boys asses the sculptures of Bodies Club, right.

The scouts is a boys club in that it is a club, which is, I mean, used to be certainly all boys and now actually can in contain female members.

But yes, it's a boys club in the literal sense, right?

Fortunately, So this boy's club has a highly negative association.

It's basically an institution or a profession or a situation which is dominated by a group of people, usually men, but can actually have women in it.

No, no, nothing to do with young boys or anything like that.

It's usually an all male group, and they often control power, and they exclude other people that they don't necessarily want to join their group.

So in this case, it would be an exclusion of women.

But you can also exclude ethnic minorities or people of a low social standing, or, I mean, anybody for anybody.

You can apply to join this boy's club that have a rule book that have a list of membership.

No again, because it's it's not that transparent.

It's kind of Ah, it's Ah, negative associations, kind of shady, so you don't really apply for membership of a boys club doesn't work.

It's often hidden and you know people appear to be friends, but if they kind of doing each other favours and things like that, that's a bit of a boys club and that they don't tell you about it.

You're either in it or you're not in eggs.

I think have experienced something like that.

Years ago I had a job and I wasn't really getting on in this job, and I saw people going for coffees together.

And I'm thinking, Hang on a minute, what's happening here?

There were some people had power and I wasn't on the team, so I never really knew I bit of a boys club situation.

I think it was, although there were some women as well.

It was this idea that everybody had it all kind of taken care of, and I wasin on the right side of that group.

Just to mention quickly that a boy's club is a noun on, it's spelled B o.

This is because it's plural Boys Club, more than one by more than one apostrophe after this.

Okay, let us move on to our second headline, please.

Our second headline comes from the mail online, and it's actually the sub headline.

It says they ridiculed female journalists for years.

Sometimes using explicit pictures, ridiculed made fun off someone in an unkind way.

So ridicule, perhaps appropriately, is a French word that we borrowed a French loan.

It's both of urban, and now let's deal with the verb first.

So to ridicule someone or the past tense is ridiculed or have ridiculed someone.

And yes, basically your you're showing contempt for something.

You're saying that something is stupid and not in a nice way.

The point is that you're being very unkind, and it's often done in a kind of public arena.

Humiliation is a big part, and you're encouraging other people to join in, often to laugh at them, isn't it?

There's a lot of kind of unpleasant laughter involved in ridicule.

You may remember that there was a show called Big Brother, and they had people in a house on the people had to do tests and things.

And when somebody made a mistake on that show the newspapers the next day, the media would often really kill them very heavily.

So there would be a big picture of that person making the mistake, and everybody would be laughing it on.

And actually they became an object off ridicule.

Nice phrase, yes, about an unpleasant situation, absolutely something that everyone laughs.

So Neil, in our BBC Living English studio, has an idea about English for car.

He's a bit of an object of ridicule, isn't me?

Well, I'm in one way you could say that, but we because we all work together because we're all colleagues.

We know that when we take the Mickey out of each other, and that's another way of saying something very similar.

It is actually quite positive because we're colleagues.

And when other boys got we like near, So it's not really ridicule.

Its affectionate left as right, we're pulling his leg with joshing with him.

Are we taking the Mickey and nice phrases?

Eso pleasant ridicule, laughing at someone when you like their mess writes nothing but banter.

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