For seven years I lived on the route of the Notting Hill Carnival and around the time of August Bank Holiday at least I regarded my Afro-Caribbean neighbours as inconsiderate shits and usually escaped to Towersey instead.

So who thinks I am thus rendered racist? There's bound to be one . . .

On Mudcat I have ofttimes challenged the appallingly retro attitudes of certain men (and a few female hangers on) who treat music venues as places for picking up women who are apparently complicit in being treated as chattels.

Someone on this very thread translates this as evidence that I am "constantly putting men down". Not so. Just as I didn't hang around to endure and then whinge about the noise and filth generated at Maas in da Grove and blame it on a specific slice of the community, I have as little as possible to do with such ignorance, wilful or not, displayed by the benighted of whatever gender.

Folk Against Fascism has the potential to combat both.