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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Yup......I was in college then - myself and a mate of mine (who had been reading the TMNT comics for years at this time and even playing the RPG lol) decided to conduct a little experiment.
When we were around ickle kiddies who were carrying or playing with some kind of TMNT paraphernalia we asked 'So who's your fave cartoon characters then?'*
The enthusiastic answer was always the same; 'Teenage Muntant Ninja Turtles!' One or two said 'Tortoises' though, which always grinned me.
'Don't you mean Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles/Tortoises?' We'd ask. In return, whatever the age of said kid, we'd get a 'How crap are you?' look along with an as-if-speaking-to-an-idiot reply something like, 'No, they're Ninjas - anyone can see that.'
So this attempt to protect the sensibilities of the country's little darlings was rejected to-a-man by the kids themselves.
So, it would appear that 5-year-olds have a lot more sense where PC is concerned than we do. Go figure.
*Obviously this was only to kids that knew us already - we didn't grab toddlers on the street and put them under an anglepoise or anything ;)
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 12:43, Reply)
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