if the name fanny and dick are considered to be mildly rude,when are we going to rename the bird we know as a TIT,when will it be considered rude to **** your gun,or rude to say charles DICKens,its still silly when you consider a child can open a newspaper or watch tv,and get abuse slung at them in the name of realism,even yahoo block out a word which in this context is not rude
2006-06-26 03:50:18 · 5 answers · asked by catfordken 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I know i read all about it in the papers today it's really sad that a book based on past priniples has been rewritten.... they haven't done it to shakesphere so why to the enid blyton books..... this is becoming a very sad and small minded world :(
2006-06-26 03:55:22 · answer #1 · answered by ptdemon 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
If is amazing I agree. When I was a child there was a programme on called Captain Pugwash. One of the characters was called Master Bates and I didn't have a clue that it might be considered rude when we used to talk about it in the playground.
What has happened to the world?
2006-06-26 10:54:56 · answer #2 · answered by MALTESE FALCON 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do think the world has gone mad. You can't please everyone, so why bother trying? I think it is good to not be racist, but when they rename things in a desperate attempt not to offend anyone, it's going too far. Like in schools, they aren't allowed to call it a blackboard, it's a chalkboard. That's not being racist, that's stating the obvious! There was even talk at some point of children not being allowed to be taught "Baa Baa Black Sheep" because it's racist. It's about sheep!!!!
2006-06-26 11:34:15 · answer #3 · answered by orione16 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blame the morality police.
Do you remember the super bowl wardrobe malfunction that lead to the total crackdown on freedom of speech on the air.
Did you know that over 95% of the "thousands of complaints" from that incident came from the phone numbers of just one fundamentalist church group.
The religious fundamentalist Christians are attacking freedom every bit as much as the Islamic fundamentalists. They are just doing it in a diferent way. At least the Islamic fundamentalists are honest about their intentions.
2006-06-26 11:13:22 · answer #4 · answered by sprcpt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should post this on Yahoo Message boards, it sounds to me like a rhetorical question. You really aren't looking for an answer and this is "Yahoo Answers."
Good point though.
2006-06-26 10:55:38 · answer #5 · answered by xenobyte72 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋