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Carter's disturbing comment..

posted 11 years ago by robtadrian
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in A Taste of Fear...remarking on schoolgirls in short skirts and socks (?)..at least he's honest!

It wasn't unusual back then. I remember "schoolgirl" humour being rife, women dressing in schoolgirl gear, even girls of school age wearing stockings and suspenders (eg St Trinians). It wasn't seen as perverted at the time. There's even a picture of DJ John Peel done up in schoolgirl gear, and you couldn't get more right-on than him.

Operation Yewtree and other retrospective campaigns are now dealing with incidents from thirty or fourty years ago by the standards of today. Is that fair? Who can say.

Awight we're The Daamned we're a punk baand and this is called Carn't Be Appy T'day!

[–] MrBullo 7 years ago

Your John Peel comment reminds me of a "Countdown" appearance by Aussie hard-rockers AC/DC when tough-guy frontman Bon Scott appeared wearing schoolgirl gear and plaits! (no doubt to complement Angus Young's schoolboy gear which he still wears on stage 40 years later).

[–] flanagan-eng 9 years ago

In "Big Brother" Carter describes a black girl witness they are looking for as a "Spade"(!) So he was a racist as well as a perve!

[–] karpizan 8 years ago

Big deal....

[–] PurpleProseOfCairo 8 years ago

There's a conversation on the Minder board about similar anachronisms, eg Terry being afraid of a gay character, having to keep his back to the wall etc. That was then and this is now.

[–] flanagan-eng 8 years ago

Reminds me of when Roger Daltrey appeared as a guest presenter on Top of the Pops and introduced the Village People with "Watch yer backs"!

[–] PurpleProseOfCairo 8 years ago

Similarly, TOTP presenters always used to preface Legs and Co or whatever with "And now something for the dads...!"

They weren't actually advocating that middle aged men should be trying to have sex with young dancers (albeit some sordid things were going on that the BBC at the time), just as Daltrey wasn't REALLY saying "all gay men are rapists, look out!" It was what passed for humour at the time, and I know there's no mercy shown for it now (and indeed it would grate on the ear) but we do have to cut our forebears some slack!

[–] marktayloruk (2378) 3 years ago

It's still acceptable now. When it comes to humour- anything goes.