Monica and sense
I normally find Monica’s column very interesting with sensible views.
However, I was saddened and quite angry to read her comments regarding golliwogs (Star Retro, Feb 18).
I must be about Monica’s age and clearly remember when I was a little girl having one of these dolls which children of those more innocent times regarded as loveable and not connected in any way with racism.
They were certainly not intended as an insult to black people.
We might as well say today that the Bratz and Barbie dolls which sexualise young girls are an insult to white people.
It isn’t the golliwogs that are pernicious but the nasty-minds of the politically-correct brigade who have hijacked this innocent doll to perpetuate their myth that it is a symbol of racism which I find disgusting.
I certainly hope that golliwogs will continue to be sold and the evil-minded people who besmirch them should be treated with the contempt they deserve. This time ‘Monica didn’t Make Sense’.
Susan Richardson, Westminster Crescent, Lodge Moor
Well done to all those who spotted the ‘delibrate’ mistakes in my article on Saturday!
There were of course naval battles on the lake at Peasholme Park, not navel, which sounded as if belly dancers were performing!
And as regards my comments abouit Jimmy Corrigan, I have to admit that there were no pound coins in the 50s. It should have read simply coins!
Well spotted!
Monica
I HAVE just read Monica Dyson’s column in the Saturday’s edition of Retro in which she says that Jimmy Corrigan went to a Mercedes dealer with a bag full of one pound coins.
Sorry, Monica. Not in the 1950s he didn’t.
Anyone will tell you that in the 1950s we still used pound notes. The £1 coin came in much later.
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waywoodwind
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 10:41 AMI'm not racist ,,,, just don't like e'm
serendipity
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 06:52 PMMy Gollywog had sex with a Barbie doll after getting her drunk at a tea party. She gave birth to a mixed-race Cabbage Patch doll but he ran off, leaving her to bring up the baby as a single parent. Fortunately, she gets £300 a week in benefits from the Bank of Toyland, so she doesn't mind. Naughty Golly!
Bytor
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 11:17 AMUkip ; never heard of anyone being upset by the nursery rhyme you quote. Ivan ; Nothing to do with racism, if something upsets a significant portion of the UK why not just drop it ? Or is the Gollywog so important to you? Oh and by the way I think my golly is still up in the attic at my Dad's ... and thats where it's going to stay ...
seenitall
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 04:29 PMWhy is it only those of us who are white seem capable of being racist? Of my many 'ethnic' acquaintences I can tell you that some of them can be just as prejudiced against other races as any white Enoch Powell!
Ivan Eddake
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 03:16 PMOh my goodness Bytor, we really mustn't upset anyone by using nasty names must we? Because we all know that anyone can allege racism without any foundation at all, and that person will be believed. Racist behaviour should really be a hanging offence in your world. I don't believe you had a golly as a kid - it was more likely a nice little pink doll, which could explain your namby pamby leftie viewpoint. Now that's what I do call mischievious!
Ukip
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 01:25 PMI find it much more sinister that children do ring a ring of roses, which is about the plague and people dropping down dead. Read up on the history of the Gollywog and you may see it different, you have to make sure what you think is your own thoughts and not dogma passed on by others. The Swastika was actually an omen of success from many religions for thousands of years high jacked by an evil organisation.
Shelley14
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 12:55 PMJust to say, I do find golliwogs racist, even as a child I didnt think they were appropriate. As mentioned earlier it was part of the Brtish Culture, and things have to change. Its not like its a matter of life and death it was just a doll, which had a name which unfortunately some people used as in not a very nice manner and caused a lot of offence to black people, and this has nothng to do with the PC brigade.
Bytor
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 12:34 PMGet real you 2 . I too had a Golliwog as a child (at a time when I was'nt even aware of other races let alone their sensibilities.)Now that I am aware that this toy can upset someone in some way, for me it is now just another part of history and has no place in modern Britain. To say otherwise and you would be up to mischief ......(aint' that right, Ivan and Ukip ;-)
Ukip
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 11:49 AMEverybody who had a Golly wog loved them. The PC brigade are a as disgusting as the people, they say they protect others from.
Ivan Eddake
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 10:59 AMBe very careful even considering using the term golliwog. Carol Thatcher said that a tennis player looked like a golliwog because of his hairstyle. The BBC crucified her and she was never seen on TV again. That's hardly surprising when you think of how leftie the BBC is, but compare it to the lovely Diane Abbott's misdemeanour and see the difference.
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