YOUR article on Silks Boutique being censured for an advert which "objectified women" ("Lingerie boutique's advert is banned", The Herald, June 6) instantly brought to mind the lyric of Bob Geldof's 1990 song Attitude Chicken:
Which is why I guess I love her
And by that I hope you don't think
That I am trying to smother
Her uniqueness or her freedom
To find some other lover
And express herself sexually
In attempting to discover
The inner self that every modern woman in the land
Has a democratic right to
Which I as modern man
Of course respect and understand and indeed can empathise with
Appreciate, articulate, feel for and sympathise with
And any reference I might make to her sexually
Has been vetted and approved by the Woman's Commissary
Neatly packaged politics for all the little minds
It's the special interest lobby for these multi-cultured times
The Politically Correct are the Nazis of our time
When it's the freedom of ideas that makes us civilised
Let's drag out the old scapegoat if he's still alive and kicking
And go riding off in glory for that Attitude Chicken
Twenty-seven years later, still sadly all too relevant.
Mark Boyle.
15 Linn Park Gardens, Johnstone.
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