by Dirty Old Yank » Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:38 pm
But inappropriate, possibly offensive expressions are the point! Any Old Iron doesn't encourage homophobia, it parodies it!
That BBC sees fit to warn us, as if we were all children in need of supervision, is the really questionable bit.
I don't speak for them but it's a safe guess the gay community is laughing at this episode, and heartily.
What's next? A disclaimer preceding every comedy that exposes irrational prejudice? Are so called 'minority groups' not allowed to laugh at themselves?
Disclaimers, warnings, call em what you will preceding Steptoe and Son say more about BBC (as it exists today) than the sitcom that helped build it.
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Dirty Old Yank on Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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