Allowed Today?

[zebo]

Just listening to Desert Island discs and the guest is called Edna Adan Ismail, a midiwife who has done wonders for women in her homeland of Somaliland. She was talking about her training in London in the 1950s and naturally the question of racial discrimination came up. She said she was the only black woman on her course and by her Scottish colleagues and friends she was nicknamed Edna Adan McIsmail and by her Irish friends she had a similar nickname.
Would that be allowed today or would the PC brigade jump into action to 'protect' her?

[murraymints]

term of endearment..whyever not ?

[anneasquith]

Yes no.

[ummmm]

I think it'd be sound.

Dawn Porter stuck 'O' in front of her maiden name when she married Chris O'Dowd.

[douglas9401]

It's not exactly Masambula or Chalky now, is it?

[zebo]

I must have become too cynical! It was an inspirational episode of DID, a very interesting woman of whom I had never heard before.

[jno]

what anne said (and in the same order)

[ladybirder]

zebo, must just say I listened to the programme, what a wonderful person she was. Very moving when she said how upset her father was when he returned home and found her mother and grandmother et al had had FGM carried out on her. She said the look on her father's face told her that what had been done to her was wrong (for those who didn't hear it).

[jourdain2]

I heard the programme too. What an inspirational woman.

[andy-hughes]

Comparing what occurred in history, and what occurs now is redundant.

You night as well say, would we be allowed to put small boys up chimneys now?

It's pointless hypothesising.