Mr Clever

I'm quite an absent-minded person at times,especially when I've got more than one thing to think about. The jar of marmalade will be found with the stationary,the used plate in the fridge,the glue-stick in the sink. But one thing I've never done is put the wrong thing in the postbox. And I can thank Mr Clumsy and Roger Hargreaves for this. I never wanted to emulate Mr's posted cheese sandwich and I always was,thanks to the story,careful not to.
Mr Tickle has been blacklisted for some time,but now it's Mr Clever thats under attack for his condescending attitude to Little Miss Curious in a lesser-known publication Mr Men in Scotland,an individual young lady now taking offence at perceived-sexism in what was probably once ordinary story-book humour: "Mr Clever explained that it was named after the River Forth...'so what happened to the River First,the River Second(Miss Curious)asked...it was going to be a very long day"
Would or wouldn't there be a problem if he had been talking to hyper-masculine Mr Strong? Hargreaves no doubt thought he was doing the correct thing by adding the Little Misses in the story at all.
No mention of the self-depreciating nature of males Mr Muddle,Topsy-turvy,Lazy,Uppity,Messy,Bump,etc,etc...

At least the publisher is getting away with the two traditional genders.
For now.