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Let's face it ....you have to be a bit weird to want to share your home with a dozen singing green dwarfs
So effectively,you are correct ,we have been putting the current " generations take "on the same story for many,many generations.
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Were things back then really deemed acceptable, or did we just have a different understanding and acceptance of the role of humour?
Today we point and call out such things to show how more aware of such things we've become.
Back then, there were ridiculous caricatures that mocked that behaviour instead. The CarryOn characters leching after Barbara Windsor were generally shown to be a little hard-of-thinking, she (and her colleagues) were generally shown to be both adept at using their advantages and more than capable of thinking more cleverly.
That doesn't really excuse the nature of the jokes, but I'm not sure they really need to be excused. It would be inappropriate to do something like that today (although humour these days seems to simply dispense with the innuendo so you have people shouting "cocks! Fannies! Shagging! instead), but there was never anything particularly nasty about the films, as was the case with most of the comedy from the 50s and 60s (and the Carry On films, although they were made through most of the 70s, were always products of the previous couple of decades).
They wouldn't work now (Carry On Columbus didn't work back in 1992, because things had moved on a lot since 1978), and I wouldn't go out of my way to watch any of them, but I do have a certain fondness for them.
I do feel that "we" have got a little too scared of causing offense of any kind - while having little to no impact on racsim, sexism or bigotry of any kind - and it would be a shame for something like the Carry On films, Terry Thomas, Leslie Phillips et al to be cancelled along with so many other things.
Because of the prevailing censorship of the time things were suggestive rather than explicit anf I think they were overly suggestive to, if you will excuse the phrase, ram things home.
Oh, and has this thread seen the first use of chortle" outside of kids' books or comics?
FFS get a grip
While I broadly agree with you I think the one thing that is problematic is the girls in these films are always laughing along with the "cheeky" scamps making comments about their appearance whereas in real life women in those situations are very often smiling through gritted teeth because they fear that they might lose their job if they don't put up with the letchy boss, or things might "turn nasty" if they don't play along.
To give an example a women I know has given up running after being frightened by a group of builders who did the classic "AWRIGHT LOVE, WORRR!!!!" routine on her hanging out of a van window. I'm sure they all think it's a "Bit of fun" and pretty close to what you would see in a Carry on Film, but she didn't think so.
I also know of a woman who quit her job because of the boss who made constant inappropriate remarks (but only when no one else was around).
I think the message those old 70's films show is that the pretty nice girls like that sort of attention, and only the mean old matron spoil sports disapprove.