The BBC has just concluded an investigation into claims by some snowflake of a viewer that an episode of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em contained homophobic language.
The 1975 Christmas special of the hit comedy series, "Learning to Drive", was recently repeated on BBC Two.
At one stage during the episode the protagonist, Frank Spencer, ended up working in the Santa's grotto of a large department store.
During the scene Frank said to a young boy: "I'm the chief of the pixies, I'm the friend of all the little boys and girls."
Quick as a flash, the cocky young whippersnapper replied: "Oh no you're not. You're a poof."
The offending word prompted a complaint from the overly-sensitive keyboard warrior, despite a warning of "outdated language" being broadcast immediately beforehand.
Quite why the viewer found the word "pixies" so offensive is beyond me, with even the woke national broadcaster - never one to miss pandering to a minority group - decreeing that actually the programme didn't breach editorial guidelines.
A BBC spokesman said: "Attitudes and language change over time and our approach is to tell viewers when a show includes something that may be offensive, inappropriate or outdated."
3 comments:
Is this a joke, whoever made the complaint was complaining that the word poof was used and wasn't complaining about the word pixie!
Yes Peter. A joke.
Dorothy Parker wrote a short story about a spoilt 1920s 'New York lady' who, in the midst of "days of panic, frenzy and world change" is distressed by the colour of her newly-painted nails.
So here we are, a century later, in the midst of a forced descent into totalitarianism, with someone getting distressed about the use of a single word in a 1975 comedy programme.
Plus ça change and all that jazz...
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