Yes, way too much political correctness in the world today -- and I despise that.  To me, if someone says something offensive, then let them handle the backlash -- but don't make everybody have to lose out on something because of some idiots who don't know how to behave.

I don't like movies being edited, either -- I do realize they have to edit movies to show them on regular TV (except, honestly, I think, why show them on regular TV at all?) and they have to edit for time (again, I don't like that either -- it would have to be the absolute only way I could see a movie for me to watch it edited -- for whatever reason).

Somehow, though, it seems worse to edit the written word -- maybe, because by the time a movie is made, it's not going to be like the book it was taken from, anyway -- or it has been changed from the script by the director, etc.-- a movie rarely ends up being the way it started. But a book, written by an author's own hand, to me (and maybe it's because I write) is sacrosanct. Personally, I think if certain words/ideas are a problem, then a child probably shouldn't read the book (in any form) until they are old enough to take it and embrace it for what it is.

And, at any rate, you really can't put the sensibilities of the 21st Century onto something which was written over a hundred years ago. It was what it was.

Lynn