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Originally Posted by foreverwar
Actually, as Claire Balding herself said in a letter to the Times (no link due to paywall), it was the use of the perjorative and derogatory term "dyke" which she found offensive, and the fact AA Gill needed to point out that she was a lesbian - he doesn't mention the fact about other people being heterosexual when he reviews their programmes, so why raise the point tha that she is gay?
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Why should she let that be the defining aspect of her public personality to the extent that even a review of a unrelated program has to make snide comments about it.