Stonewall has complained to the BBC about the use of the homophobic insult "batty boy" in the Christmas day episode of Only Fools and Horses.

In this episode, the child character Damien used the term as a joking insult against another character. Stonewall has complained to the BBC that this is a clear contravention of the Corporation's producer guidelines that its programmes will give a fair view of people and cultures and have respect for standards of taste and decency

Speaking about the complaint, Stonewall's Director of Parliamentary Affairs, Sacha Deshmukh said:

"It is completely wrong that the BBC would let that its number one rated Christmas show use a homophobic insult as a joke. The producers of Only Fools and Horses should be ashamed of themselves. I am sure that they would never consider using an ethnic minority or disabled slur for a laugh, and an anti-gay insult is just as bad."

"Gay community groups do huge amounts of work to combat homophobic abuse and bullying. This sort of thoughtless and offensive language makes this important work even harder. The BBC owes an apology to the gay community nationwide."

Stonewall = Lesbian and gay equality organization

Stonewall = Can fuck off.

In the book 'Fifth Business' homosexuality is reffered to as 'the sin of Sodom'. Ban the book! Better yet, burn it.

Originally posted by At my Most Beautiful
Stonewall = Can fuck off.
And die.

For fucks sake

fucking hell!

all I can say is that homobobia really ticks me off.... *noddles*

But complaining about something as stupid as that is just taking things to far.

well...can't disagree too much with that.

Sexual discrimination of any kind should not be shown, on prime time family television. If the BBC think that that kind of homophobia can be tolerated, they will just keep doing it.

If you don’t complain nothing gets done

Lol. That's really silly.

Other programs say stuff like that. What about Goodness Gracious Me and programs like that.... they blatently take the piss out of Asians. I guess they get away with it because they're actually asians theirselves... but still.

People need to quit being so uptight. A 9 (?) year old boy on Only Fools And Horses saying batty boy is hardly insulting the whole gay community.

If everybody took jokes seriously there wouldnt be much laughter in the world.

I don't know. I think there's alot of laghter in the world without having to insult anyone. I mean...sometimes people of either side take things way to far. But I mean, lets not degrade people.

*Has a "batty boy" avatar* :cool:

Originally posted by Lisa
Lol. That's really silly.

Other programs say stuff like that. What about Goodness Gracious Me and programs like that.... they blatently take the piss out of Asians. I guess they get away with it because they're actually asians theirselves... but still.

People need to quit being so uptight. A 9 (?) year old boy on Only Fools And Horses saying batty boy is hardly insulting the whole gay community.

I'm with Lisa.

People go about making jokes about gays every day and they don't get banned for living. It's just for a laugh. Fair enough, I don't think it's fair to make gay peoples' lives misserable, but that comment on Only Foold and Horses was all in good humour. It's a JOKE. It's not serious.

All of the groups in society get the piss taken out of them every now and then, most of them take it in good fun though.