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I agree with you bitontheslide. I think its a shame that decent manners and respect for one another comes under the same umbrella as women who insist we should take 'men' out of the word 'womyn' and university students needing 'safe spaces' for political discussion.

I'm sure when the phrase was first coined it was meant to represent civility and moral values but its become a phantom enemy that's so often used against common decency.

We have always had hotbeds of intolerance. Charles Dickens was hugely condemned for being anti-Semitic when he wrote Oliver Twist.
The Victorians changed the leg of a triangle to the arm of a triangle because they considered using the word leg was vulgar towards women. In the Victorian times anything sexual had to be talked about in flowers and when women were offended they’d claim they had the vapors and feigned a faint. (which meant they were emotionally overcome).

What's the difference between then and now... quite a lot... we moved forward and stopped being so daft. We still though, have some very intolerant people amongst us and I guess we always will.