This topic touches on the subject of another recent thread - non-PC songs.
Back in the late 80s there was a move by some feminists to expunge so-called 'anti-women' songs from the repertoire; I saw on several occasions, singers shouted off the platform when they sang songs like 'THE LARK IN THE MORNING', 'THE GENTLEMAN SOLDIER', 'THE DOCKYARD GATE' etc.: the 'love 'em and leave 'em' or 'aren't women fickle and conniving' genres. This led to the disappearance of many songs from the club repertoires, certainly in some of the ones I frequented.
As a strong supporter of feminism I can see the sentiment behind this, (nobody wants to sit quietly while their gender is being slagged off) but as a lover of folk song (and much of the literature and theatre which is based on similar themes) I find this reactionary and destructive and have always wondered if there was not a better way to handle it.
Wonder if anybody had any similar experiences
Jim Carroll