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Sir: I cannot be the only reader to be dismayed by the tone all too frequently struck by some of your male contributors. The latest example came in Theodore Dalrymple’s rant (Global warning, 7 June). He writes of ‘shivering, drunken, scantily clad sluts…’. No doubt these young women do not represent the flower of English womanhood — but ‘sluts’? The coarse aggressiveness of the term, unimaginable from the pens of Paul Johnson or Charles Moore, says, I suggest, more about the brutishness of Theodore Dalrymple than about the character of these misguided young people.
I do hope you agree.
Ruth Chambers
Durham
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June 12th, 2008 12:09pmHow strange. All the comments that managed to get posted concerning d'Ancona's interview were negative.Yet here, given pride of place, is a letter praising his clarity of mind. I should say so!
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June 12th, 2008 2:45pmDalrymple brutish? What rubbish. Put brutishness in its correct context here. If young scantily clad, drunken women dress like sluts, then so be it - they will be brutally regarded, brutally treated and brutally described as sluts. There is no "nice" word for scantily clad, drunks in public places.