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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TediousI was once pulled in to the gaffers office and reduced to tears over politically correct bollocks.
My offence?
I was standing near to another person who used the word "poofters" when talking about the film Brokeback Mountain. I failed to challenge the said person for using a potentially homophobic term.
The fact was that no one else was in earshot, least of all a gay person who might have been offended. I don't personally find the word offensive (and I am a bit bi-curious) so didn't feel the need to stick my oar in someone elses conversation just to make a politically correct point.
Also, poofter is surely a quasi-offensive term at worst? I can't imagine any gay people being mortally offended by the word poofter? - Apologies if I am wrong. Most gay people have thicker skin than that I would imagine. And if they were offended, I assume they would be perfectly capable about voicing their concerns for themselves? Why is it my duty to voice outrage on behalf of someone else?
But anyway, the point is that I didn't even bloody say it! It wasn't me! It was someone else!
Yet I still got a bollocking for it.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 0:53, Reply)
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