Looks like you can’t mention it .
This is a nail in the coffin of free speech

I heard today that some people are kicking up about us saying 'Father Christmas.'

To be gender neutral we should call him/her Santa!!!

Beggars belief, don't it.

So would Jack Frost be just "Frost"? We could end up initialising everything instead of having actual words...although wait - OMG! we already do that! Neutrality by stealth....

The trouble with these things is that some small changes may make sense, but there are those who pick and pick at things they feel strongly about until there is nothing of any value left for anyone.

I agree with you, Annie.

Just had an odd thought . . . . why are pantomime dames usually men?

I heard today that some people are kicking up about us saying 'Father Christmas.'

To be gender neutral we should call him/her Santa!!!

Beggars belief, don't it.

won't be able to call my daddy my daddy soon, will I have to call him "parent". I love you parent doesn't have the same ring as I love you daddy . I.m exasperated with all this madness mupsy

I think if people had started to ask us as kids whether we felt male or female then that would have addled all our brains.

When I was a child I found the sexual revolution deeply disturbing. I think all the sexual imagery polluted our normal sexual development so we grew up thinking that sex, sex, sex was normal. So instead of a natural transfer to adulthood you are in a sense interfered with. I have friends who subsequently slept around thinking that was love and intimacy. That was the norm. They were hurt and I think my generation (generation X) was let down in so many ways. Free love was a new thing that had never happened before. Nobody thought of the effect on kids.

A lot of people here were already teens during that era but these things affect kids. Talking about adult issues should be only for adults who are fully sexually developed. I see the current climate as a form of child abuse. Kids should be allowed to mature physically before they have to deal with decisions affecting their sexuality. I find it hard to believe that nobody has considered the ethics of what they are doing by going into schools and asking children to discuss these matters before they are fully developed. I bet that in future years some of these children will see themselves as victims of society. That society shaped their choices rather than giving them real choice.

I agree with you, Annie.

Just had an odd thought . . . . why are pantomime dames usually men?

and why is the principle boy always a girl?