With all these "politically correct terms" do you think it's ever too much?

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: neonerd
not looking for a P&N flamewar, but just in general...

i mean in no time you'll see us referring to "snowpeople" (not snowmen because that's sexist), as "precipitationally challenged individuals" 😕

Snow-man is not sexist if your snow-person is actually of the male gender. If your snow-person is female, then she is a snow-woman I guess. In part this is about accuracy. If you have a group of snow-people of mixed gender, then it isn't accurate to refer to them as snow-men. Snow-people would be more accurate and hence preferred.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: Wanescotting

It boils down to calling people their preferred label. I don't have a problem with it.

Preferred label? You cannot always know what someone prefers. People are just offended to easily these days.

I just ask them, if I'm in doubt.

 

[Toki]

if it is at least slightly funny, i have no problem, but most are not, so it is rather anoyying.

 

[Wanescotting]

I just ask them, if I'm in doubt.

Ask them? OMG. I am not insensitive, but I refuse to perpetuate this pc crap.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: Wanescotting

I just ask them, if I'm in doubt.

Ask them? OMG. I am not insensitive, but I refuse to perpetuate this pc crap.

At what point does common courtesy become PC crap? I'd use 'black' or 'african-american' in preference to 'n1gger' etc. (if I didn't know the person, and wasn't deliberately using non-PC terms in a joke or whatever).

 

[Wanescotting]

At what point does common courtesy become PC crap? I'd use 'black' or 'african-american' in preference to 'n1gger' etc.

Oh, you must be a racist. I just call folks by their names. Also, if I am pointing someone out in a crowd, I will do so by describing what they are wearing, I don't notice what color they are first.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: Wanescotting

At what point does common courtesy become PC crap? I'd use 'black' or 'african-american' in preference to 'n1gger' etc.

Oh, you must be a racist. I just call folks by their names. Also, if I am pointing someone out in a crowd, I will do so by describing what they are wearing, I don't notice what color they are first.

I notice the color of people's skin. How could I not? I have 20/20** color vision. I also notice people's gender, clothes, smell, and also their general level of sexiness. I hope this doesn't make me racist, sexist, etc.

**well, not really. Actually I'm a bit short sighted.

 

[tami]

womyn. that is the most annoying statement in the world.

 

[BannedTroll]

I refuse to change the way I speak/ act due to the emotional variability of others. I am not offending them they are becoming offended. They are the only ones in control of that and they are the ones that need to change.

 

[daniel1113]

I think Lewis Carroll said it best in his book, Through the Looking Glass:

?When I use a word,? Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ?it means just what I choose it to mean ? neither more nor less.?

?The question is,? said Alice, ?whether you can make words mean so many different things.?

?The question is,? said Humpty Dumpty, ?which is to be master ? that's all.?

F*ck political correctness.

 

[shinseik]

speaking of, an interesting topic came up today with my friends...

does anyone know the politically correct way of saying "drug dealing"?

lol

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Originally posted by: shinseik
speaking of, an interesting topic came up today with my friends...

does anyone know the politically correct way of saying "drug dealing"?

lol

Distribution of Illegal Substances.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix

Originally posted by: shinseik
speaking of, an interesting topic came up today with my friends...

does anyone know the politically correct way of saying "drug dealing"?

lol

Distribution of Illegal Substances.

but that implies that the substances are somehow of lesser moral value than legal substances...😉

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: shinseik
speaking of, an interesting topic came up today with my friends...

does anyone know the politically correct way of saying "drug dealing"?

lol

"drug dealing".