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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Your mum sounds like mineMine survived polio and had a few good decades of mobility before her body started to fail. She uses a chair now, though she can also walk short distances(like from the chair to the bath). She also has to deal with people in shops(and many other places) who think wheelchair = deaf/mentally impaired.
Mind you, she's usually first with the spazz jokes and really, who's going to tell off an older lady in a wheelchair?
'I can say whatever I like,' she boasts, 'because stupid people assume it's dementia or something.'
Long live feisty mums!
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 5:36, Reply)
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