PC gone mad

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Originally Posted by Jen

ummm yeah well maybe once or twice

Well I wasn't going to say anything on the grounds of incriminating myself.
My favourite was slamming the piano lid shut on my sisters fingers while she was practising while Scooby Doo was on.

[stephenb (Stephen)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Well I wasn't going to say anything on the grounds of incriminating myself.
My favourite was slamming the piano lid shut on my sisters fingers while she was practising while Scooby Doo was on.

jjj, I loved Scoobie Doo also (although driving around with a group of friends in a psycodelic van solving mysteries did look like a good way to spend the rest of my life).

My daughter told us recently the latest word to be banned at her school is "fat" - in any context - whether you are describing a person or an object - any context. We told her in no-uncertain terms it is not banned in our house and she can use the term whenever she like.

[michaellxv (Michael)]

How about we just ban the use of all adjectives in any context. That should solve all PC issues.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by michaellxv

How about we just ban the use of all adjectives in any context. That should solve all PC issues.

In that case you should have written:

"How about we just ban the use of adjectives in context. That should solve issues."

[matt]

Originally Posted by glenluceskies

My daughter told us recently the latest word to be banned at her school is "fat" - in any context - whether you are describing a person or an object - any context.

Dear, oh dear!!!

What next? You're not allowed to describe someone as blond or brunette? Bald or hairy? Left or right-handed, in case it offend?

Words only becomes offensive if used in an offensive manner/contaxt, in a way to deliberately ridicule, hurt or belittle.

In and of itself...the word fat has every right to be used as a way of describing something that's 'overweight' as any other word.

I think the problem with using terms like 'obese' is that it somehow gives it a scientific 'neutrality', which makes the subject being discussed somehow more palatable...

But as in a lot of this PC-ing...that can do more harm than good. We end up talking around the subject instead of tackling it head-on with the language which we all understand and carried more 'punch'. Fat is not a good way to be. I'm a little fat these days and that's how I describe myself. I don't look to sugar coat the condition. Fat is fat!!! The word hits home with me...and I feel the urge to do something about it when I describe myself that way.

Now, if I described myself as moderately obese....well, I'm inclined to feel a little shielded from the blow of reality. It's like the language has distanced me from the reality of my state, if you know what I mean?

It's all BS and ridiculous.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by Starkler

It's "ok" still to discriminate against or even dehumanise fatties, which I think is trending worse.
Strange isn't it how PC-ness claims airs of moral high ground and enlightenment but fatties are still fair game.

Erse!

[Barrykgerdes]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

I think the author is a "she" Barry..?

If the same sort of analysis was applied to The Simpsons.. my god!

Mike

Hi Mike

That explains the feminist bias!

I was only generalising in the pre-political correcting language where we used the masculine form for a general statement.

Baz

[Jen]

QUOTE=jjjnettie;534186] Well I wasn't going to say anything on the grounds of incriminating myself.
My favourite was slamming the piano lid shut on my sisters fingers while she was practising while Scooby Doo was on.
[/QUOTE]
lol JJJ i can just picture that in my head too

[pgc hunter]

PC makes me vomit. I generally try to behave in a non-PC way.

[michaellxv (Michael)]

Originally Posted by pgc hunter

PC makes me vomit. I generally try to behave in a non-PC way.

vomitting in public is generally considered to be PIC

[bloodhound31]

Originally Posted by AdrianF

Did watching the cartoons when you where a kid make you go out and smack someone in the face with a shovel like in the cartoons? I think PC as gone way too far.

Adrian

My brother once got me in the back with a folding shovel that put me in an agonising backwards arch like Old Yeller's last moments.....

[space oddity]

Time for a poll on IIS and the rest of the world. Has PC gone too far? IMHO the answer will be "yes". Every day there seems to be some new and even more outrageous piece of politically correct BS ,usually from the UK. Are they competing with each other as to who can come up with the most rediculous crap? Maybe it is keeping up with the Khans (PIC to be keeping up with the Jones's.)



Politically INCORRECT and PROUD

[DJDD]

perhaps the new web-ad for the Toyota Yaris is the reason a lot of people want more PC-language and attitudes... because much of the movement for PC-language is about respect for others.

(BTW, i thought the ad was boring, unoriginal and puerile but in my office I seemed to be in a minority...)