Dominic Greyer said organisers of the WI's Centennial Fair in Harrogate asked him to cover up coasters, mugs and tea-towels featuring some of Britain's saucier-named towns and villages. The author was selling merchandise for his book 'Lesser Spotted Britain' when asked to hide the offending items.
Mr Greyer said he was approached by a male organiser who described some of the promotional material as "unacceptable". He was asked to cover place names with 'censored' stickers. Mr Greyer said: "It was pretty farcical, it was like I was running an adult shop. I had to cover up what on paper seem like rude names but, in context, are real places from around the UK.
"It's just 'Carry On' humour, it's not like you can't drive past these places, they're all out there on the street for people to see." The writer, from Manchester, said ladies approaching his stall during the event at the weekend were "gobsmacked" by the move and thought it was a marketing gimmick. "Some of them were pretty put out and thought it was patronising," he added. The organisers have yet to comment.
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Sorry,but I find it offensive that a man is making decisions for women without any thought that we are all capable of thinking for our selves. I would have asked why they had stickers on them. Then I would have approached the organizers and told them off. Don't speak for me or any other woman.
Oh the irony, that Anonymous would speak for the 'male organiser' in chastising him for 'making decisions for women' when it's not described, in the article, on whose behalf the 'male organiser' might have been acting!
The man might have been trying to protect *children's* delicate little minds - not grown women's. Theirs are generally more robust. Apart from Anonymous' of course, who appears to be quite trigger-happy, on this subject :-P
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