Time girls got out of the gutter

The PC brigade was in overdrive following another Big Brother race scandal, blowing a careless, rather than malicious, word out of all proportion.

It's clearly an offensive word but, in this multi-cultural society we like to think of as fair to everyone, surely we can tell the difference between a word and the intention behind that word?

Emily Parr, the girl who said the "n" word, did apologise if she had offended anyone and is, in my mind, a victim of discrimination.

She is certainly no racist bigot.

Charley, the black unemployed lap dancer to whom Emily said the word, really milked the situation and said she would be on the front page of all the papers.

She really is a deluded exhibitionist.

Can someone tell me why there is no outcry about the foul and detestable language that Charley and others use? It certainly offends me.

They need to get out of the gutter and show some pride in themselves.

PB Johnston, Shrewsbury