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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Back to the earlier issue...... I think marriage is great. I'm proud to have stood in front of pretty well everyone I know and sworn as solemnly as possible never to split up with my partner.
Turns out she didn't mean her vows quite as much as I did. Hey ho. Life goes on.
However, when faced with a list of "marital status" boxes to tick, I'm not sure what to pick.
I'm "divorced" and thus also "separated". I don't want to tick those though cos I don't like to define myself by someone else's bad choices. I'm kind of "single" (cos I'm not married), but also not "single" (cos I have a girlfriend). I don't live with her though, so does that relationship not count for anything?
If I marry my girlfriend I'll then (strictly) be able to tick "separated", "divorced", "married" and "living together" all at once. Just got to get "widowed" and I've got the whole set!
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teedyay, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 15:15,
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