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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Had to post.My mother-in-law has a similar type of problem. My wife's a bit sensetive about it and refers to it as a 'hormonal imbalace'. Being the tactless twat that I am, i keep saying 'offensive' things, like "she's off her tits again" and "she doesn't know what planet she's on".
Being resonable, I don't think I should have to mind my mouth when she's been calling us at all hours of the night, worried that she packed the wrong underpants for my F-I-L. (He works away)
It was a bit harsh of your friend to say what she did, I would never believe that my M-I-L would do anything to actively harm our baby, but I have gone to her house after she called me (sounding panicky) to find her and our niece stark naked and stuck in a vicious cycle of panic and fear. (The niece threw a paddy and because she couldn't cope, the M-I-L panicked and started wailing and so on).
On a more positive note, and showing my b3tan colours, I usually look at the bright side (which my wife fails to appreciate) because some of the things she comes out with when she's 'off on one' are pure fekkin comedy gold.
The other year she bought my wife a Donald duck 9pc jigsaw for christmas, and an ornamental teapot for me. (My wife was 23 and there were no children in the family, I didn't drink tea)
Best of luck with everything.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 9:46, Reply)
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