It’s snow joke

The BBC has come under fire from angry parents after Cbeebies presenter Catie Munnings referred to snowmen as “snowpeople” during her recent Catie’s Amazing Machines programme.

I will never call a snowman a snow person. I have never heard anything so stupid in all my life. He has always been a snowman and always will be – who thinks all this rubbish up? It’s time to stop all this nonsense and bring back memories of years gone by.

Margaret Welch

How about “a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapour in the air . . . person.”

Gav Grant

Do we know that they choose to self-identify as people? Or are you now assuming species?

Alistair Dunlop

Fair point my carbon-based friend. Let’s go for “entity”.

Gav Grant

Why does it matter if they called it a snowperson? It’s such an odd thing to get upset about . If you’re angry about it changing then obviously it matters. In that way, ironically, it justifies the change in the first place.

Shay Amber Davies

I can understand if it’s about not limiting the horizons of children in terms of their pursuits and interests or being inclusive of all genders in a workplace. But I can’t imagine there are many girls and women out there whose life ambition is to be a figure made of snow!

Wojciech Borowski

Some people may prefer snow people, some snowman. Call it what you like, don’t tell others they can’t call it what they want.

Lynn Hackett