What We Gonna Do? Life On Mars Behind Playground Bullying
AS the nation struggles to understand the violence of today’s youth culture, The Times offers a couple of pointers. (Pic: The Spine)
“GCSE writing contains ‘sickening violence’,” it declares. This refers to complaints by examiners that pupils taking English are writing increasingly violent prose when given titles like… er, “The Assassin”.
OK, so maybe that’s not a very good example. But surely no one could argue with the claim that gay-bashing is caused by the BBC time-travel drama Life on Mars.
Teachers unions have apparently claimed that the homophobic language of old-school seventies detective Gene Hunt was “harmful”, and that “Hunt’s use of ‘bender’ and ‘poof’ could be responsible for playground bullying”.
All very embarrassing for BBC chairman Sir Michael Lyons, who praised the show and said it contained “some of the best one-liners I could hope for”.
The paper helpfully lists a few of Hunt’s bon mots, but sadly there’s no room to repeat them here.
We want to see them, you understandably wail.
Yes, indeed. But as DCI Hunt would say, “I want to hump Britt Ekland. What are we gonna do?”
Posted: 27th, August 2007 | In: Back pages Comments (2) | TrackBack | Permalink
