Awww, Edith Summerskill, bless

[oursin]

You know that thing that people go on about when they go on about the tyranny of PC, that it is this awful modern wussy thing about language and people used to suck it up and deal, or recognise that, hey: it's only a joke!?

Laydeez and gemmum, I give you Edith Summerskill, MP, who during the Second World War objected in Parliament on feminist

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[tree_and_leaf]

Personally, I've always thought the Tyranny of 'It's Just a Joke, Have You No Sense of Humour?!!11!' as an excuse for any kind of behaviour, however unpleasant, is much more of a problem (as I seem to recall CS Lewis, who was never going to win any prizes for PC-ness even in his own context, pointing out at one point in Screwtape).

[oursin]

Absolutely. (Also, the notion that certain terms are used 'affectionately'.)