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 means always being afraid to say anythingThe other day I was at a patient's house. Her son was filling me in and I turned to her other son (I thought he was but I never assume) and said with a smile, "I'm sorry, you're her son, neighbor, greatnephew, husband,...?" He smiled back and said, "Son-in-law".
I thought, "Oh, how nice everyone is cool with this." and went on asking questions about her history. They gave me a cup of delicious coffee and when I got up to examine her, they asked, "How was the coffee?"
Without thinking, I gushed in a pretend fey voice, "Fabulous!" and immediately cringed internally, afraid they would think I was mocking them for being gay. I tried to backpedal lamely, stuttering, "Uh uh, I mean it's great, the coffee is, er, I say fabulous all the time, I didn't mean ,er, I , My little boy says fabulous too, well not that he's ga-oh, but..." The whole time their grins are slowly widening and I can see my license flying out the window. I finally dwindled to a halt and whimpered "I'll just shut up now."
They mercifully brought my torture to a halt by laughing and saying it was ok, my flipflopping was quite entertaining. We are now friends and I just love this patient-she's a doll and I'll miss her when she dies.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:12, Reply)
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