Hooks are out for George as outrage follows outdated views

Anyone who falls foul of their respective culture’s values can expect the full weight of its condemnation, as if there was no other possible perspective, writes Margaret Hickey

GEORGE Hook is outdated in his views. That does not mean harmlessly old fashioned to his detractors. It means misogynistic, sexist and chauvinistic, at least where the current controversy is concerned.

A more lenient criticism might be that he just works out of an outworn book of manners and morals that is clumsily and quaintly at odds with current attitudes.