Mary Whitehouse
Mary Whitehouse | |
|---|---|
| Born | Constance Mary Hutcheson 13 June 1910 Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England |
| Died | 23 November 2001 (aged 91) Colchester, Essex, England |
| Education | Chester City Grammar School |
| Alma mater | Cheshire County Teacher Training College |
| Organisation | National Viewers' and Listeners' Association |
| Movement | |
| Spouse |
Ernest Raymond Whitehouse
(m. 1940; died 2000) |
| Children | 5[1] |
Constance Mary Whitehouse was a British teacher and conservative activist. She was against social liberalism and popular TV in the UK. She thought it allowed too many things to be acceptable. She made the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association. The group was against the BBC. Her views were because she was Christian and she didn't like the changes of society in the 1960s.[2]
Whitehouse became an art teacher. She also joined the groups like the Student Christian Movement and Moral Re-Armament. She became well-known because she was in the group Clean-up TV. The next year she made the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association. She used it to criticize the BBC. She thought they used to much bad language in their TV shows. She also thought their shows had too much sex and violence.
Critics said Whitehouse was a bigot. She fought with advocates of the sexual revolution, feminism, children's rights, and LGBTQ rights.Others say she was trying to protect the morals of the UK.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Elizabeth Udall "Mary Whitehouse: 'Sometimes I denied she was my mother'", Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine The Daily Telegraph, 27 May 2008
- ↑ "Mary Whitehouse, 91; Led British TV Cleanup". Los Angeles Times. 26 November 2001. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
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