Hurt Feelings

You know, I agree with you 100%. When it comes to skin, I'm color blind. I'm respectful of people's religions or spiritual choices - I'm secure in my own faith, theirs is none of my business. I don't care who people are sleeping with as long as it's with the consent of both parties and doesn't include minors or animals (ew!). BUT! If I say "black" instead of "African American" or "Indian" instead of "Native American" I don't want to be called a racist. If I say "Bless you" when someone sneezes, I don't want to be lectured about forcing religion on others (yes, this has actually happened to me). We're spending so much time being "politically correct" and tip-toeing around each other we're forgetting how to interact with each other. We're spending so much time avoiding insulting "this particular group" that we're actually offending everyone! If you ask me, the whole "politically correct" movement has done nothing but cause separation and segregation - the very thing it was designed to stop! I remember in my office we didn't even decorate for the holidays - because we had buddhists, jews and christians and the boss at the time didn't want to offend anyone - so we had no festive atmosphere at all. As a result, all staff were complaining because we were the only office on our floor without decoration.