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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"Make a Hole"In the US military, for years and years, whenever there was a large gaggle of Marines, or Soldiers or Sailors and you needed to get through that gaggle to the other side, particularly if you outranked the members of said gaggle, you would simply shout "MAKE A HOLE!"
And the gaggle would part like the proverbial Red Sea.
My last year as a Marine, I got a "memo" that said (God, I wish I still had that memo) "Henceforth all Marines will stop using the phrase "Make a Hole" because it illustrates an insensitivity to female Marines. It makes reference to their genitalia and it will not be tolerated by this command or any other within the United States Marine Corps. That is all."
Insensitivity? I NEVER in my entire time using that phrase, from military college to my time as a Marine thought about female genitalia when I was using that phrase. But ONE WM (WM = Woman Marine, and THAT term female Marines HATE) takes it the wrong way and the toughest, nastiest, meanest, grumpiest, fightenest military unit in North America has to have a 'sensitivity memo' sent out.
Political Correctness Gone Mad, Indeed.
Semper Fi!
Citadel
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Citadel Because the world needs less morons, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 4:28,
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That's whywomen aren't allowed to join the Royal Marines. That, and the fact none of them would survive the training.
Per Mare, Per Terras.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 4:57, closed)
ha hayou said 'hole'
/snigger
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BadBadman saw an incorrect comma placement on, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 8:27,
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Wait a minute...If you have to MAKE the hole, wouldn't that assume that anyone within earshot doesn't already have one, meaning it can in no way refer to women?
Or is that discrimination against men now?
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 8:28, closed)
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