stop the PC madness

[EJFan]

*pop spew*

suddenly i want to put "hot for teacher" in the cd player.

 

[Eilan]

suddenly i want to put "hot for teacher" in the cd player.

Be sure to let me know when I have chalk dust on my ass. Damn those dark clothes!

 

[Lynxie]

Are you going to start making us wear uniforms? If so, you'll be my husband's new best friend.

 

[EJFan]

Are you going to start making us wear uniforms? If so, you'll be my husband's new best friend.

that's it... i'm getting NO work done today!

i learned that typing with a boner causes the space bar to get inad v er tan tly h it t oo oft en

 

[Eilan]

Are you going to start making us wear uniforms? If so, you'll be my husband's new best friend.

Oh, my.

 

[silverwhisper]

btw, i think there may be chalk dust on you somewhere...

ed

 

[Eilan]

i learned that typing with a boner causes the space bar to get inad v er tan tly h it t oo oft en

Now all you need to do is "train" it to hit the space bar when necessary.

btw, i think there may be chalk dust on you somewhere...

It's been two years since I've been anywhere near chalk, yet with my dirt/dust magnet capabilities, I see that as a very real possibility.

 

[Eilan]

*note to self*

Go to the college bookstore and buy one of those wooden paddles that are sold to the fraternity/sorority pledges.

 

[EJFan]

*note to self*

Go to the college bookstore and buy one of those wooden paddles that are sold to the fraternity/sorority pledges.

if you use it on your husband you may find yourself the victim of some "requisite and reciprocal physical damage."

(trying to bring things full-circle... lol)

 

[Eilan]

if you use it on your husband you may find yourself the victim of some "requisite and reciprocal physical damage."

(trying to bring things full-circle... lol)

The "response to resistance" would likely be applied to MY bottom and not his!

 

[EJFan]

The "response to resistance" would likely be applied to MY bottom and not his!

dat's what i said, yo.

 

[SweetErika]

Speaking of teachers...

In school (the big movement was in the late-eighties), some of mine felt the need to replace the very offensive term Christmas with "Winter Bush Holiday."

It was funny out of absurdity then, but now when I think about it, the image is just too hilarious!

 

[Eilan]

In school (the big movement was in the late-eighties), some of mine felt the need to replace the very offensive term Christmas with "Winter Bush Holiday."

It was funny out of absurdity then, but now when I think about it, the image is just too hilarious!

There's a holiday commercial that runs on Nickelodeon (the only channel I'm "allowed" to watch) that refers to the holiday ChristmasHanukkahKwanzaaWinterSolstice. It features the Rugrats character in a gentle parody of "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

My kids' school district superintendent decided to call the Christmas programs "holiday" programs. While I understand why he did it, I also didn't see a need for it, as we live in on the fringes on the Bible Belt and non-Christian minorities are bullied into silence, anyway.

Most of the kids don't care what it's called. They just want to have fun.

 

[EJFan]

"Winter Bush Holiday."

oddly enough, this is what i call it when i don't groom the nether regions.

 

[EJFan]

Most of the kids don't care what it's called. They just want to have fun.

seriously... this is why i love thanksgiving and halloween. these are just good american holidays, non-religious and all about glutony. it just doesn't get any better than that... food, friends, food and leftovers.

people have been moving to nix halloween because of some supposed devil/evil worship crap. screw that... let little johnny dress up as the tooth fairy or whatever and get some free snickers and shit. lighten up already.

 

[mrmgp]

"Political correctness" is certainly not a new movement.

It is in the fact that you've never had a group of people sit down before and try to change the meaning of many words at one time.

 

[silverwhisper]

didn't they actually do this very deliberately during the french revolution?

ed

 

[EJFan]

didn't they actually do this very deliberately during the french revolution?

ed

i believe so... and it's happened so many times. i think it's a form of censorship really... or insecurity.

once again, words only have the gravity we assign them. the word "nigger" for example, lost a LOT of its sting when richard pryor started using it in a less abrasive, more humorous tone. if you look at the speaker using words and phrases that bother you, you'll probably find they're not grounded in what most of us think of as reality.

the whole thing started with being told not to use the lord's name in vain. god damnit.

 

[MagicFingers]

Pc

Police used to say, "We're questioning the suspect." (You can picture one bright spotlight in the suspect's eyes, smoke-filled room, no food or water.)

Now they say they're "Interviewing" people, like a job interview?

And I was told last week that I cannot refer to "African-Americans" as "Black people any more!

 

[EJFan]

Police used to say, "We're questioning the suspect." (You can picture one bright spotlight in the suspect's eyes, smoke-filled room, no food or water.)

lol!

and it's not even suspect anymore... it's person of interest. there's only a small window of time in which a person can be called a suspect... that period between the time they're charged and the time the prosecuting attorney blows the case.

 

[Brainboyz]

I'm more than sick of all this bullshit, too pussy to say what you mean, PC crap. I've noticed this has slipped into behavior as well because it's not PC to discipline your kids either. "Talking" to them is not discipline. I have a cousin who is a little back-talking pansy because A) he's never been spanked, and B) The most forceful thing his (single) mom will do other than grounding him (into his room of toys) is use his middle name.

Personally, I think cops should tell the public that "the criminal resisted arrest so we used necessary force to make him submit." My black friends think the term "African American" is out of place except maybe on a census and I agree: I'm white damnit not Caucasian and my girlfriend is Mexican, not Hispanic (although I know this applies to more than our direct neighbors and so is passable). Very few kids actually have ADHD, most of them are politically grouped there instead of calling them hyperactive little brats who are fed too much sugar and not enough of what they don't want to eat. Since when is letting your child voluntarily go hungry for the night a bad thing? When I was growing up, if I didn't like what was for dinner then tough I went to bed without. Then again, when I threatened to call the cops as a kid, my parents said, "fine, go for it. I hope you enjoy your new family." because they weren't afraid of a hyper-liberal court system where the cops are afraid to get sued if they let a decent discipline go without a report. Kids shouldn't be beaten, but from time to time a good swat on the ass never hurt anyone.

Geez, no wonder our society has de-evoled to guys who can't tell people what they want and women who want more for doing less.

 

[pupper]

I don't follow the political corectness,maybei amjust oldfashioned.I think it wasa movement to keep rednecks from using stupid terminology.In my way of thinking an adrican-american is an american,to me it is predjudiced to use terms like this,I looke at everyomne as equals.My wife seems to think there is a real predjudice against women(especially succesful women)for the record she os not a feminist.I look at everyone asequals and I give everyone the benefit of the doubt.I treat others as I would like to be treated no matter what color their skin is,or whether they are a man or woman,and if someone is offended by what someone else says thats there perogative.Now if it is a slur I chalk that up to ignorance or the fact that theperson using such termonology just isn't very intelligent,but I still don't hold that against them that would be predjudiced.predjudiced people are that way either way,and it crosses all race and gender lines.I.E. you just have to put up with em.

 

[pupper]

I try to find the good in all people

 

[Eilan]

My wife seems to think there is a real predjudice against women(especially succesful women)for the record she os not a feminist.

And that's a good thing? Not to go off on a tangent or anything, but I think it's unfortunate that your wife's NOT a feminist. Because of all the bra-burning, man-hating fanatics out there, feminism has become something that women don't want to be associated with. That's not the way it was intended to be.

For the record, I AM a feminist and damn proud of it, though I'd be shunned by the bra-burning man-haters. Do you know what feminism means to me? It means that women's choices are expanded, not limited. They can choose to become a successful CEO, a doctor, a cop, a teacher, or a stripper. They can choose to stay at home with their children. They can choose to combine a career and a family. They can choose to have no children or several children. I could go on and on about this, but the point is, THEY are making the decisions; the decisions are not being made for them by people who THINK they know what's best for them.

*steps down off soapbox to avoid stones and rotten tomatoes*

 

[EJFan]

Do you know what feminism means to me? It means that women's choices are expanded, not limited. They can choose to become a successful CEO, a doctor, a cop, a teacher, or a stripper....

this is EXACTLY how i feel. in fact, in college i did a papaer for a philosophy class about pornography and used this very argument.

thank you, eilan, for leading us all toward enlightenment.