Madness indeed...
As far as my own encounters with PC-ness go, I've never really given a flying flip about offending anyone, I treat everyone the same. If you are an immensely nasty, stupid, disabled, fat, dyslexic, lesbian, muslim/hindu/jew/catholic/protestant/CoE, it doesn't change the fact you are nasty and stupid. Sure, simply using a persons sex/race/disability to beat them with is wrong, but actively ignoring the difference is quite simply, fucking insane, and does nothing to further any kind of equality.

The modern approach to children is one of the most troubling "PC gone mad" situations, particularly for parents who don't discipline kids properly, either because they think discipline is synonymous with physical harm, or because their far too well informed darlings will be on the phone to childline, post haste. Teachers are stuck with the same shit, and because the kids come in to school as little bastards, there's very little to be done.

A number of first hand accounts have given me reason to really be amazed by the stupidity of what passes as modern sensibilities.

For example, from my teacher brother:
-Telling children that what they have done is not right, rather than that it is in fact wrong.
-Not using negatively coloured pens to mark work, just in case it makes the child feel bad, rather than letting them know they need to try harder.
-Ensuring kids actually having cause to worry about behaving sexist or racist in primary school, and ending up with a stunted approach to social situations. Of course kids point out differences, but this goes with the territory, standard tribal instinct, differences attract attention, which is dangerous to a tribe.
-Having to gratefully accept the violence from the bat shit crazy little fuckers, without being able to restrain them (thats recently changed thankfully).

No great surprise at the maladjusted little gremlins that are seen at all schools nowadays. If this kind of behaviour is repeated over the atlantic, its hardly surprising that when kids who have never been told "No" or "That's wrong" become adults, that some of them have a tendency to flip out, flip out with weapons that is.

From a currently serving serviceman:
-New recruits while receiving a dressing down from a senior were able to show a coloured sign that meant they were either a) feeling bad and that the senior should ease up or b) were feeling bullied and the senior should stop. These are new recruits being trained to kill and be shot at, that are actively encouraged to passive-aggressively get out of being disciplined. Sheer madness.

God knows if its ever gonna get any better, I doubt it, but to be honest, it does make it much easier to offend people, which as a b3tard does have a certain perverse attraction.
(ShiftyBastard won the World Cup on World Soccer Champs 2010!, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:32, 2 replies)

When I were a lass
someone in my class actually cried and made a scene because the teacher marked their work in red pen. We had to have an assembly about it.

Unfortunately this was the 90s when it was all just beginning......
(Marmite Omelette ...but I feel better having screamed, don't you?, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:40, closed)

the comment about the serviceman...
is amazing.

the only way my mind can get round that sort of thing is that when whoever it was came up with the idea, everyone who heard it laughed so much that they were completely unable to prevent it from being put into place.

they should be addressed the way that Gunnery Sergeant Hartman address the recruits in Full Metal Jacket.

and for that matter, kids at school should be addressed in the same way.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:52, closed)