The reason for using the word dyke has more to do with the title of the programme ie Britain by
Bike, than anything else.
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when every other girl on television is winsome and coquettish, it's a relief to be talked to by someone who isn't flirting down the lens.
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He was referring to, and putting down the presentation skills of heterosexual women.
As the response to her complaint pointed out, people like Jeremy Clarkson are frequently referred to, in a very nasty way. Would she have like to have been portrayed in a
cartoon in this manner? Would any gay person be allowed to be portrayed in that manner, no matter what they had said or done, especially in publications like that one.