Charlie Brooker on Sexualisation and the Daily Mail

"It was different in my day. Sexual imagery wasn't shoved in your face, unless you watched TV or looked at a magazine or newspaper or walked past a billboard advertising absolutely anything."

Charlie Brooker, writing in the Guardian today and saying pretty much what I've been saying here. Well worth a read.

There's also another Guardian piece exposing the Daily Mail's hypocrisy on this subject that is worth a look.

Thanks to Melon Farmers for pointing these out!

Flick Colby RIP

Calm Down Dear is saddened to hear of the death of Pan's People (and Ruby Flipper and Legs & Co) creator Flick Colby, who died on March 26th aged 65.


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Hot Gossip get Sleazy!

Hot Gossip appeared early evening every week at the end of the 1970's on the Kenny Everett Video Show, providing 'naughty bits' like this. Here we see them performing to The Village People's 'rock' tune Sleazy.

Legs & Co. dress as naughty schoolgirls and glamourise prostitution!

A couple of moments from top 1970's family entertainment show Top of the Pops.

In the first, Legs & Co. (the less famous successors to Pan's People) dress up as sexy schoolgirls to dance to Free's All Right Now:



While here, they appear as streetwalkers to dance to Donna Summer's Bad Girl:



WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?