GAIL Jordan thought it would be a laugh to reprint a photograph of her son as a baby and stick it on the top of his 21st birthday cake.
It was one of those mildly embarrassing bare-bottom baby shots - the sort your mother whips out when you bring a new friend home. Except when Gail handed over the photo, bakery staff at her local Tesco told her they couldn’t reprint it as it was “pornographic”.
Sorry, it’s not the photo that’s offensive, it’s the idea that anyone could possibly think the bottom of a five-month-old baby lying on his tummy is anything other than sweet. Pornographic? Now that’s sick.
The bakery staff finally agreed to reprint Gail’s photograph only if a star was placed strategically over her son’s bottom. The fact the baby was now a strapping 20-year-old lad didn’t seem to matter, which only proves the madness of rampant political correctness.
I bet those poor sods baking buns in Tesco have been so beaten up by the PC stick they’ve lost all grip on reality. It’s like a virus that’s making sane people behave like total idiots and it’s infecting the whole country. In the same week Gail collected her X- rated cake, a school cancelled its sports day because UV levels were “too high”. In England. On a cloudy day. In 15-degree heat. So all those busy parents who’d made the effort to clear their day to make space for the under-sixes’ egg and spoon race were then told the day was off. Why?
Because the head teacher read on the Met Office website there was a moderate risk of sunburn. As one of the parents said: “I thought the world had gone nuts.” Couldn’t have put it better myself.
We don’t need to be told by a report that many new health and safety checks designed to protect children are actually hurting them - we know it already.
Many adults are afraid to work in childcare because they worry about the dark cloud of irrational suspicion hanging over anyone who chooses to work with kids.
This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so damn dangerous.
I know plenty of men, good husbands and fathers, who are wary of physical contact with any child other than their own because of paedophile paranoia. In the most tragic case of all, bricklayer Clive Peachey was driving through a Warwickshire village and saw a two-year-old girl wandering along the street alone.
His heart told him to get out of the car and make sure the child was OK, but his head told him someone might think he was trying to abduct her. There’s not a day goes by when he must regret his decision to drive on. Soon after, the body of little Abigail Rae was found face down in a garden pond.
Political correctness has destroyed our nurturing instincts and is breaking down bonds between adults and children. There is something intrinsically sick about a society that allows a little girl to walk alone to her death because we’re too scared to help her.
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