> "the old men shouting at clouds" (ahem... I mean "old people shouting at clouds" xd)? Unless there was an earlier reference, this was from The Simpsons, wher

> "the old men shouting at clouds" (ahem... I mean "old people shouting at clouds" xd)? Unless there was an earlier reference, this was from The Simpsons, where Grandpa Simpson was the subject. In this case "old man" would be correct and doesn't need to be de-gendered. To the more general point, society and culture changes and (hopefully) progresses and improves. While this is uncomfortable for those of us who learned our societal norms a generation or two ago, and need to change our habits, I think it is an inherent feature of a healthy society. Thus it will be an ongoing issue, and is perhaps made even more prominent by today's faster and wider communications channels. Thus while on a specific issue (Dahl's books in this case), there is no absolute right or wrong, there is moral relativity where everyone's starting point is different. Society as a whole, hopefully made up of reasonable voices, will work out the answer. Which of course, can change again over time.