"I object to smelly teenager jokes the way I used to object to Les Dawson's mother-in-law jokes," wrote Melanie Reid. She described how she was sickened by the way Dawson and his like would put down women. She says she now reacts in the same way when she hears people cruelly mocking adolescents for their lack of hygiene, communication, co-ordination, manners, enthusiasm and good skin.
How much harm is caused by these explicit and discriminatory prejudices?
No-one knows. But there's a good argument that society should simply stop being horrible to young people.
The row about sex education in Scotland continues. In the Scottish Parliament, Patrick Harvie, MSP for the Glasgow region, accused Cardinal Keith O'Brien of "ill-informed comments" for his interjections about sex education.
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