Comment by dd8601fn
2 months ago
It was part of her fame, for decades, as she intended. She was not shy or ashamed about it.
Nowadays we may be extremely sensitive about that sort of thing (increasingly on behalf of others, unsolicited), but at the time it was not mean spirited or wildly offensive.
> at the time it was not mean spirited or wildly offensive.
That's what "the past is a foreign country" is meant to communicate.