Yesterday the Daily Mail‘s Katie Hind reported that Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls“, a 1978 track written by Brian May, has been removed from a “Queen’s Greatest Hits” collection on Yoto, a newish audio platform aimed at Zoomers and Gen Alpha.
The reason, of course, is that the word “fat” has been banned from the cultural vocabulary by body-positivity advocates. Fat or obese persons no longer exist — there are only different people of different shapes, livin’ their lives and owning their bods.
What this means, of course, is that rock lyrics are now being subjected to sensitivity editing in the same way that classic books with problematic content have been re-edited and to some extent censored.
