Good bye PC and don't let the door hit ya!
By sunshinecup
@sunshinecup (7871)
July 2, 2007 9:26am CST
"Politically Correct" what a horrible fad. I believe we are leaving the years of tiptoeing around realism. I think we can now feel free to speak our minds once again without fear of a brow beating for not being sensitive towards tender feelings. To me it was nothing more than asking us to basically keep our real thoughts to ourselves and amuse others that would take offense to our truths. It was a HUGE attack on freedom of speech with the use of peer pressure… sing it with me “We’re all going to be PC, don’t you want to be PC too?” And if one was going to say something real, then it had to be tenderly dressed up with distortions of the truth in some way, such a woman with her boobs and rear hanging out wasn’t a scank but an “independent free woman”. Or the blind was visually challenged, (which to me sounds worse than blind.)
The whole idea of “PC” (which for many years prior to this stupid craze meant Pro Choice) to me personally was excruciating and I am glad it has now lost it’s appeal and has run it course. Good bye Political Correctness, may you never rear your Ugly (beautiful challenged) head again.
So how did you feel about the whole Political Correct movement?
Glad to see it gone, or are you going to hang on in hopes of a return?
What do you think, if anything, the positives came from it?
Do you have any goofy PC phrases you would like to share? Such as Clumsy = uniquely coordinated.
I read all, rate all and thank all. :0)
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@kitchenwitchoftupper (2290)
• United States
2 Jul 07
I had intended to respond with humor to this since I am a "Senior Citizen" - the last time I was a senior I was 17. I also was going to mention that I am almost 60 years "young" but what the he!! does that mean? I love being almost 60 years old and being able to get the "Blue Hair" discount.
I did not respond to this however, when I saw what has turned into something akin to a "bi*ch slap" going on. LOL~Donna
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@sunshinecup (7871)
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3 Jul 07
I love being almost 60 years old and being able to get the "Blue Hair" discount.
My Mom started to go gray early, so by the time I was 18 and she was in her early 50’s I would take her out for lunch and tell the waitress not to forget her discount. LOL Mom never did appreciate that.
As for my stalker, sorry about that but what can I say? I'm irresistible! :oP
@devilsangel (1817)
• United States
2 Jul 07
Well I've never been politicaly correct in anything lol. If I thought someone was ugly I told them. I have actually been yelled at by strangers for calling someone a freaking retard. My response to them was well I wasn't talking to you so if you'd stop listening to my converstaion you wouldn't get offened. Oh and OMG if one more person sits and stutters trying to decied what the correct term for my race is I'm gonna smack them. They looked all shocked when I'm black, and then I get the don't you mean african american. Um no.. no one in my family has ever been to Africa or is from there. So sorry I'm not African anything. You don't see Japanese people calling themselves Asian-americans or Japanese-americans, so why the hell are you putting a title in front of me. What the hell happened to white/black/asian/hispanic? Did I freaking miss something?
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@sunshinecup (7871)
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2 Jul 07
OMG!!! Thanks for saying that one!!! I was going to include African American but thought that would be a sure fire way to get me deleted. My best friend, whom is a credited author and teacher, has always hated that darn phrase and she rights about teaching tolerance between races. I call her African American and she calls me a Mixed up American cause I am half Indian and Irish, LOL. In reality she's Black and I am White. No feelings hurt or insulted here.
Now the only thing I have a habit of, which was started by my youngest when she was 5, is referring to my plumpness as fluffy. But that is purely for my own selfish feel good reasons LOL.
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@devilsangel (1817)
• United States
2 Jul 07
Thats ok I refer to mine as just me being squishy. I tell my friends all the time I'm not fat I'm just squishy. Frankly cause I just like the way it sounds lol.
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@Withoutwings (6992)
• United States
13 Jul 07
Political Correctedness is on the decline? This is news to me. When did this happen? I still see and hear it constantly and it gets on my nerves. It's people censering themselves. We fight so hard for freedom of speech and then we do something silly like censer ourselves with stupid P.C. terms.
One I found rather amusing is "vertically challenged" = short.
I find it quite annoying when I say something like stewardess and I get pounced on by several people telling me it's no longer stewardess, it's flight attendant. Give me a break!
@ItTakesAllSorts (4096)
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10 Jul 07
Sadly I live in the UK and PC is still rearing its ugly head. I work in a nursery so it is sometimes even worse for me.
Deaf children are Hearing impaired.. Sorry, Pardon, What?
Father's Day is unofficial as some kids don't have dads...I didn't realise kids could be concieved without sperm!
The whole thing drives me insane and most people apart from the fools who make the rules agree. If we can't laugh at ourselves without fear of being accused of something we are not, what bleeding hope is there?
So shut up and put up as the actress said to the bishop!!
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
3 Jul 07
I dont have any to add and I wouldn't even if I could come up with a new one. I dislke PC intensely and have always consiously tried not to use it. I too hope that it just fades away and never comes back.
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@sunshinecup (7871)
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3 Jul 07
Thanks heather. I like the clever ways some tried to pretty up ugly terms. That part was entertaining, as well as the shock value of not using PC lingo with highly PC people. :oD






