POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

dlowan, It's because he's a schizo. He has a robe of a christian sheep, but in fact is really a psychotic madman. c.i.

Don't forget "horizontally challenged"...

snood, whaddya up to?

steissd

Those are three interesting choices you've singled out. Each has a decidedly negative component, though each quite different. The first two catch my attention.

"idiot"...I'm not sure who exactly this term might refer to. Would this be people born with very low IQs? Would it include normal individuals such as yourself who have suffered trauma to the brain, say, in a car accident? Could you clarify proper referents please.

"prostitute"...would it be your preference to keep this word in the common use? If so, why?

sozobe
I had an elderly english aunt who some years ago used an expression I'd never heard before to describe a woman whom she thought a tad promiscuous, saying 'she has round heels'.

More like "flat" heels. c.i.

Nuttin', sozobe - I was just flattered when you said you agreed with me, and was trying to get a reaction. I got it. (chalk it up to too much time on my hands)

Plus, I just remembered that you'd said the thing about PC and lack of nuanced thought first (though you said it more clearly.)

I've seen "round heels", and always wondered what was up with that. I probably will regret asking, but...

Picture the one with round heels having a mattress attached to her back.

I got that, yeah, but wondering where the round-heeled-ness comes in.

Ah, checked it out on the web:



http://www.politechbot.com/p-03234.html

sozobe

Yes, that's it. I'd never heard it either. I think it's a lovely term.

Okay, babe, are you wearing round heels? c.i.

Oh, you know, soz. If you do a lot of walking, the trailing edge of your heels wear out the quickest, and they wear round. Think streetwalker here.

No such thing as political incorrectness IMO. Not in a democracy. There are a lot of people, though, who reject intellectual and political independence of thought as though they'd be sent away from the table. One of the great privileges and joys of living in a free country is that you can be a contrarian. Fearlessly. Just do it. Stare oddly at Republican women who wear pearls and drive Excusions. Say fearlessly to your post-'60's friends that you think lentils and Jung are really boring. Subscribe to Mad magazine and Foreign Affairs. Buy a Harley but walk to work. Stir things up on an hourly basis. Please. For the sake of us all!

I believe that all who go around with those two words on their lips will get lockjaw and at the same time their brain implode. Sweet silence.

Tartarin

That's lovely. A credo to fight for.

PC language and the pending invasion (alas, it's all I can think about, this confounded "war"):

Language "helps to create a climate in which the need for military action appears to be self-evident," the editors write in their introduction to Collateral Language: A User's Guide To America's New War (NYU Press). "Almost immediately after Sept. 11, supposedly `objective' journalists were echoing politicians and pundits by saying `The United States has no choice but to respond,' thereby giving the subsequent war an aura of inevitability.''

And in so doing, the media, which give more of a platform to military experts than to voices of protest, obscure the true impact on human beings who are the "collateral damage'' in "precision air strikes'' or "targeted killings.''

As the editors point out: "To speak of `collateral damage' is a far cry from acknowledging the blown-off limbs, the punctured eardrums, the shrapnel wounds, and the psychological horror that are caused by heavy bombardment."

Watching TV all day yesterday there was no talk I caught of the blood that will probably run in the streets of Baghdad. And you can bet that, if and when the invasion occurs, we'll all be spared images of the guts and gore that will be spilled.

Tyranny of Words and War

PDid, I see it as the biggest sin GWBush, who professes to be a christian can do; kill innocent men, women, and children for "any" reason. c.i.

War should be the last, not the first, option for civilized people.

steissd,

I support what some people call PC but the silly terms to me don't represent PC, they represent idiocy. But they are fun to pick on.

"full time outdoorsman" - homeless

"non conventional commuter" - carjacker

And for prostitute, he he, - "receiver of swollen goods"

manure transdisposer