Political Correctness Gone MadFreddy Woo writes: "I once worked on an animation to help highlight the issues homeless people face in winter. The client was happy with the work, then a note came back that the ethnic mix of the characters were wrong. These were cartoon characters. They weren't meant to be ethnically anything, but we were forced to make one of them brown, at the cost of about 10k to the charity. This is how your donations are spent. Wisely as you can see."
How has PC affected you? (Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websites)
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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PC gone out of the windowOne evening I was out for a drink with some friends when we suddenly noticed a large amount of people behind and around our table using sign language. All fine (hey, it was a big group, at least they're not making much noise!)
A bit later a couple of us go up to the bar and I'm saying that I learnt some sign language while at University. The only words I remembered were vagina and cunt. (The only reason we learnt the cunt version was because someone mistakenly signed it in the class and the teacher begged her not to use it ever again)
Anyway, always willing to pass on new skills and knowledge to my friend, I show her how to sign the word cunt. On our return to the table (still surrounded by deaf people) she says, look what birdwoman taught me!! And signs the word cunt, while standing up and with exaggerated gestures in the midst of a lot of deaf people... Excellent work.
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 9:29, Reply)
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