[Bell Historians] chiming

[John Camp]

At 22:15 on 22 July 2008, Alan Ellis wrote:
> If, historically, the tolling/chiming for a death were 1 for a child, 2 
> for a woman and 3 for a man, would there still not be discrimination?   
> Women would still be central.

> Suggesting that the nine taylors is sexist is P.C. gone stark raving 
> bonkers once again.


Thanks for calling me 'stark raving bonkers' Alan.

'PC' means 'it wasn't like that when I was a lad'.  I suppose that bell
historians is not the list on which to expect anything other than
19th-Century attitudes.  As Don Morrison said recently, on
ringing-theory (in an entirely different context), 'we suffer the
consequences of our own conservatism'.

My last word on the subject!  Promise.  (Unless I get really enraged.)

John Camp.