FannyCornforth
Dickens Mary Whitehouse was a heroine of mine when I was 11.
So heaven help me!
Who knows who I’m going to morph into!
(My username elsewhere is MaryWinehouse, which I’m ridiculously and pathetically pleased with ?)
... It's easy to dismiss MW as a right-wing, ultra Conservative, Christian, crank.
But even as a cultural / social liberal, I think she was right to be concerned about certain aspects of the so-called 'permissive' society.
"May I first share my fear that technology is overstepping itself, It does seem, to the lay mind, that the power of computer technology can reach a point where man is incapable of arresting the forces which he has released."
As Samira Ahmed (BBC) said recently...
She could have been talking about the impact of porn on school-age children today. An Ofsted report in June 2021 found 80% of girls were pressured to provide sexual images, and nominally adults-only platforms such as Pornhub and OnlyFans have been accused by campaigners and MPs of consistently failing to deal with abusive and exploitative material including under age content, upskirting, revenge porn and other non-consensual imagery.
... I think she had a valid point.