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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i'm a massive liberal pansy.......and i'll tolerate most degrees of stupidity if it'll help make some over-sensitive fools feel slightly less offended... but i still like arguing with radical feminists because they're all as mad as a bag of lorries. the best lark was staying up way into the night having a heated internet debate about whether the word 'history' was perpetuating the evils of patriarchal society, and whether 'herstory' should be popularised to counter this.
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deshnoodle agonising over sig files since 1995, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 21:05,
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I've done that too!The best was the one who was convinced that the works of Beethoven were actually the sound of rape.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 23:11, closed)
As a radical feministI HATE SHIT LIKE THIS! Herstory, Jesus, history is a word in the English language. It doesn't have anything to do with 'his', you fcking morons. Chairperson, my ass. Quit arguing over stupid words, deciding all men are out to get us, getting into that Goddess crap and get a life. Do something worthwhile instead of lording it over other people who aren't as "enlightened" as you. The word cnut was meant for womyn like that.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 6:41, closed)
There's a good example of this in the 'graffiti' qotw I believe'Dead men don't rape' was sprayed on a wall, and underneath someone had added 'Dead lesbians don't stencil'.
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idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Sat 24 Nov 2007, 17:26,
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historycomes from the french histoire, and the french don't have the word his. they use son, sa or ses, depending on the gender and quantity of the noun.
case closed.
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 0:46, closed)
i love feministswell at leas tthose who believe that men and women are completely equal, fine if thats how you feel, no more womens sports, everyone is just lumped in together, i wonder how many women would make it onto the national football / rugby / cricket / athletics / etc teams
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 16:22, closed)
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