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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Too bloody right...I've held the same arguemant for some time now regarding to MOBO's. I'm not against the people who run it or even the people who participate - it's the whole preposterous Idea of the thing.
I mean, if we play by their rules:
Blues would be considered 'Black' music predominantly and progressed to give us Rock 'n'Roll (which in turn gave us Rock). Rock influenced Heavy metal but you never see metal bands winning MOBO's do you? Surely they are eligable as their ORIGIN has stemmed from 'black' music. Oh no.
And in keeping with political correctness - when are they going to start the MOWO (Music of White origin) awards? Or the MOAO (Music of Asin origin) awards?
In true PC style, they should ALL be recognised or NONE of them should.
On a similar note, the whole 'Girl power' thing of the '90s annoyed me to the same extent. We'd never be allowed to label music as 'Man Power' as it would be seen to be promoting mens desire to be the dominant gender. Bring on sexual equality but make it EQUALITY (Not "we're just getting our own back for the hundreds of years of femal depression"). No, it's supposed to be EQUALITY.
/rant
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 11:48, Reply)
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