Daverock said:So can we describe you as Bi-appreciative then?
Yep..I appreciate both bodies.
I love my body and enjoy very much 'your' penetrative manhood...
Daverock said:So can we describe you as Bi-appreciative then?
DC_DEEP said:A quote from my deaf aunt: "I'm not hearing-impaired. I'm definitely NOT handicapped. I'm deaf."
elf said:If being "politically-correct" means being polite and non-offensive (e.g. calling people what they want to be called and not stereotyping others on the basis of their race, sexuality, gender etc) then I'm all for it.
If it means some humourless half-educated idiot correcting how others speak because it doesn't fit his or her world view then I'm a bit less enthusiastic.
stud_hunter said:I agree. It seems like a lot of people like having something to be offended about because it makes them feel righteous and superior. I think we put way too much energy into controlling language and getting bogged down in whether we say "man" or "person." If it was a woman we'd say woman. If it's a man say man. It doesn't matter. Same goes for racial terms. White or Caucasian, black or African-American, Latino or Hispanic, Asian or Oriental, etc. I know there are political reasons why people prefer certain ways of saying things, but it seems we'd be better off fighting real prejudice instead of fighting these silly language wars.
That's precisely my point, Gillette. By the way, that particular quote from my aunt was many years ago, when I was in my teens. My deaf uncle and his wife lived in Seattle, and I lived in Little Rock, so we didn't see them often. I had used the word "deaf" on one occasion, and a "hearing" adult sternly corrected me and told me that the proper term was "hearing-impaired" and lectured me on how offensive the term "deaf" was. Then next time my deaf relatives visited, I used the "PC" term, and that's when she quickly corrected me. I guess I'm just a deafness-impaired melanin-impaired American-American.Gillette said:In most of these P.C. cases it isn't the designated group arguing for a better classification, it's everyone who wants to be seen as "sensitive" to their plight. I don't imagine someone in a wheelchair cares how you refer to their condition so long as you stay the hell off their ramp, out of their stall and out of their parking spaces so that they can go on about their business unhindered....
Funny thing, Stronzo, if that were over-dubbed in French, and "quebecois" substituted for "American," and "francais" for "English" and "provence quebec" for "America", it would still be very apropos. Quebec actually does have language police, and a merchant can get in serious trouble if the signs in his window don't have the french version, in larger font, and positioned above, the english version.Stronzo said:Here's the reverse of doing away with what some deem political correctness:
The Ugly American
(and this man thinks he's speaking English?)
dongalong said:The PC expression that is the most ridiculous in my opinion is the phrase "brown out" instead of "black out" WTF!!!!
How is turning all the lights out so everything is dark and therefore black, racist? and why choose brown of all colours?
I never understand why Americans of African descent prefer to be known as African Americans rather than "Americans".![]()
DC_DEEP said:I want to take my genealogical political correctness to a higher state. Instead of referring to me now by the continent of my greatgreatgreatgreatgreat grandparents (as in African-American or Asian-American), you are hereby instructed to refer to me by the supercontinent of origin of my evolutionary progenitors: I am a Pangaean-American. If you refer to me in any other way, I will kill you.
DC_DEEP said:My mom was an "intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity-challenged" person. Hmm, that's not right. Perhaps "pancreatic β-cell differently-abled" person. Nah, now that I think about it, she was diabetic.
You can't say those now, either. Too racial. Can't say thigh or breast, that's too sexual. Um. Uh. Chicken parts. How can we be politically correct in describing chicken parts? Oh shit, I'm sure there's a reason we can't say chicken (it might hurt the bird's feeling, because of the connotation of "fearful"), and I'm sure there's a reason we shouldn't say "parts." It perhaps sounds too "divisive."COLJohn said:Political correctness comes and goes in cycles as our society changes. In the Victorian Era, it was not PC to mention body parts, so we ended up with dark meat for chicken legs and white meat for chicken breasts. Once PC is taken to an extreme, it will self-destruct when good sense reappears. And for the record, I am balding, not follicley challenged.
Lex said:I like White Meat.
Lex said:Cock, the other white meat (not pork).
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Gisella said:I think the observation about the little green man being a person is just ridiculous..even a kid know the shape of the little person look like a male body..square..not nice as a woman or girl...
I do agree 100% with MB.