Herland?

“Nobody will ever believe how they looked. Descriptions aren't any good when it comes to women, and I never was good at descriptions anyhow. But it's got to be done somehow; the rest of the world needs to know about that country”.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's utopian novel of an all woman society, Herland starts with the male narrator confessing to this inability to describe his subject.

Mark Lawson had no difficulty in finding words with which to mock contestants, laughing at their intelligence and likening them to rats (but not of the lab variety which of course we like).

Perhaps he'd prefer less Herland and more Caged Heat.

BB functions very well as a cipher through which observers perceive what they want to perceive. For some newspapers it is the dead hand of commercialism and for others simply indications of general decadence. What they tend not to see is much of the thing itself.

‘None of them had ever seen it. It was dangerous, deadly, they said, for any man to go there. But there were tales of long ago, when some brave investigator had seen it -- a Big Country, Big Houses, Plenty People -- All Women’ (Gilman).