Imelda Staunton "if u eat il cut u"

Once at the Barbican I was sitting next to a Japanese tourist and at one point he pulled out a large raw onion and proceeded to eat it like an apple.

For the first two decades of my theatre-going no-one took any drinks in at all, water or anything else, and I never saw a single person faint from exhaustion, so your fears are unfounded. Ban all drink and food.

Once at the Barbican I was sitting next to a Japanese tourist and at one point he pulled out a large raw onion and proceeded to eat it like an apple.

I was using the term to mean, "me first and forget everyone else" attitude. And nobody was talking about locking anyone up - though don't get me started on victims - yes, there are victims, of "(Don't) Care In The Community" as a policy. There should have been choice, and there isn't. And for the record, I was heavily involved in instigating "relaxed" performances, DC. So.

Can we please not start throwing terms like special snowflake around? It's very ableist.

I was using the term to mean, "me first and forget everyone else" attitude. And nobody was talking about locking anyone up - though don't get me started on victims - yes, there are victims, of "(Don't) Care In The Community" as a policy. There should have been choice, and there isn't. And for the record, I was heavily involved in instigating "relaxed" performances, DC. So.

My point is that "norms" of behaviour were established which are only very recently being broken - and many are actually suffering the consequences. We'd never get anywhere if driving was "as you want to" and nobody conformed to agreed rules of the road to make it safe for everyone.

To give a better example of failure to replace a good norm with a bad one: in "the arts" there are a lot of young, talented people who are now making no money at all from things like music, whereas they should be the next Elton John, Beatles, Madonna etc. Rolling in it because of how brilliant they are. Reason? A whole generation has torn up the rule-book and think creativity is free, well, should be free and downloadable without payment online. Result: poverty for creators and now a dearth of individual creativity.

Every action has a reaction, and breakdowns of norms in one area can lead to destruction of something in another.