I WAS really surprised to read Tony Pelton’s comments about your Horace and Doris cartoon of October 29 being sexist (HAS, Nov 2).

Horace and Doris is designed to embrace situations with humour, as with all cartoons, humorists, comedians. All have a slant on the satirical, black humour and even the opposite sex.

I actually save the Horace and Doris cartoons because they depict a lot of the domestic situations a couple get into in daily life. As my husband and I are a devoted couple we hold a sense of humour in our relationship in which we can laugh about such things each and every day.

So let’s not have all this politically correct nonsense about being sexist. Where is the humour in that?

On the day that the particular cartoon referred to appeared – Doris was speaking on the telephone about junk “male”

coming through the door just as Horace walked in – my husband did not see it as offensive or snide comment. He actually spotted that it was published on the day of a national post strike, so any “male” coming through the door, junk or otherwise, was something to comment about.

Mrs Lynda Chinery, Darlington.