Gosh and Golly

Last week I submitted a poem to ORBIS magazine. The editor said, politely, that she wouldn't publish a poem with the line: "The golliwog loves to laze in his cot."  After some exchanges, I offered: "The teddy bear loves to laze in his cot." Accepted!

But have I been a victim of the dreaded Political Correctness?  (It is the weird couple in the poem who choose to have a golliwog in a cot.)

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