This thread is concerned with unacceptable and inappropriate attitudes and utterances in public performance and, indeed, whether to censor or regulate.

What it is NOT about is hysterical ravings from unreconstructed, middle-England nutters culled from Derry Street press releases whose aim (insofar as they appear to have one) is to restore "Merrie England" to pre-1950s "not many foreigners (just enough to empty the bins and drive the buses)" with women relegated to pre-war subjugation and Kinder, Küche, Kirche.

We can conclude, I think, that both this backwoodsperson and madlizziecornish (who, I am mightily relieved to confirm, I have never clapped eyes on) are reincarnations of Mary Whitehouse and well in the "oppress 'em and stamp on 'em" camp. And I think we can all do without their mindless, pointless yelling and spouting of entirely unsubstantiated, off-topic bollocks from close who have, clearly, no conception of the precise meaning of feminism, nor indeed, racism.

I have been talking about:

(a) the allegation (certainly as yet unproven and probably untrue) that a particular artist's material now includes Jim Davidson stylee claptrap and perhaps should not be booked at Cropredy, though I do, however, feel that it needs to be looked into carefully,

and

(b) the indisputable facts that Vin Garbutt does included oppressive and anti-feminist material unsuitable (IMO) for general festival/concert dissemination. I have also referred to highly unsavoury sexually predative behaviour at venues (well documented in threads passim) which certain posters have hitherto failed to deplore.

All these strands carry implications of oppression and whiffs of fascism and fall, in various ways, into the remit of FAF.