Political Correctness... bleh
02/16/07
Political Correctness... bleh
Society has become hilarious when it comes to political correctness. I believe that things should be called for what they are instead of coming up with some stupid fancy sounding name and/or classification. In many cases these silly ass titles, names and classifications are a result of complaints from employees about their job titles. How the hell does the title really change WHAT you are doing? Sure, cover up your piss poor situation with a crafty title or name and instant gratification awaits your resume. Come up with some fancy name to make yourself feel better.
- Garbage men in some areas are classified as Waste Management Engineers. Yup.. waste management engineers. Makes it sound like they should be making about 100k a year doesnt it? Yet Im sure some are bothered if you call them Garbage Men - get over it - you chose to do this job.
- Pizza Hut refers to their phone order takers as Customer Service Representatives. Wow.. thats a mouthful of a title for someone taking orders for pizzas on the phone isn't it?
- Grocery store baggers have become Carry Out Associates.
- Many Gasoline distribution centers have given the job title of Transfer Engineer to the guys who fill up the big trucks. Heh. Transfer Engineer. Makes it sound like some high paying job with the electric company working on the big electrical grids doesn't it?
- Any physical impairment is lumped into one new phrase: Physically Challenged or Handicapped. These descriptions are far too broad. I want more info.
- Fat people: Weight challenged. How are they challenged... as compared to.. what? The use of the new politically correct phrase does NOT correct the fact that They are simply fat - get over it. Should be reclassified as Food Challenged or Meal Challenged.
- Gay people - Hrm.. should we refer to you as Sexually Challenged? Maybe Biologically Challenged? These new terms are far too braod. Fag or Dyke leaves no room for misunderstanding.
- Cross Dressers/Sex change electives: Biologically Undecided? Biologic Transitioner? How about Gender Trainwreck?
- Cable company phone order takers: Entertainment Specialist. haha wtf?
How can there be so much unhappiness is society today when each and every day we have new terms created for old situations that make us laugh? I dunno.
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Comment from: Abba Zabba [Member] 
1993 called. They want their rant on "political correctness" back. And George Carlin is holding on line 2.
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02/16/07 @ 14:19
Comment from: bman [Member]
Yea I know, but when I was at the grocery store the bagger was wearing a nametag with the position of Carry Out Associate on it. Therefore I felt compelled to rant.
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02/16/07 @ 16:29
Comment from: Roulette [Member]
Some of your examples I support. Garbage men, baggers, etc. Others I don't know what to call them in the first place (order dudes? Order takers? That person who will fuck up my cheese steak order? Whateva)
But you lose me with gay people type thing. Gay people want to be called... Gay or lesbians. Sometimes just homosexual. Fag and Dyke are like nigger and spic. Derogatory. Now, if you're in the mood to be derogatory, go for it. But it can and should carry the stigma that you hate that group.
PC is bad when you're going to lengths to make a turd sound like it's gold plated. PC good when you're taking a group label like nigger and as a society agreeing that it's not respectful to that group to use it.
Don't care if you like a group. Don't care what term you want to use to address that group. Use whatever you feel matches your feelings toward them. But you need to accept that using a derogatory term for a group does give a derogatory meaning to your words.
Fag. :P
But you lose me with gay people type thing. Gay people want to be called... Gay or lesbians. Sometimes just homosexual. Fag and Dyke are like nigger and spic. Derogatory. Now, if you're in the mood to be derogatory, go for it. But it can and should carry the stigma that you hate that group.
PC is bad when you're going to lengths to make a turd sound like it's gold plated. PC good when you're taking a group label like nigger and as a society agreeing that it's not respectful to that group to use it.
Don't care if you like a group. Don't care what term you want to use to address that group. Use whatever you feel matches your feelings toward them. But you need to accept that using a derogatory term for a group does give a derogatory meaning to your words.
Fag. :P
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02/16/07 @ 17:24
Comment from: odessa [Member]
I agree "nigger" should be purged when it is intended to be deregatory, but is it deregatory when black people call each other nigger? The term "African American" just makes me impatient, when very few people intended the term "black" or "colored" as deregatory. I am impatient to get my words out and "African American takes longer to say than "black", so get over it.
There is nothing inherently offensive with the terms gay and lesbian, so I hope the PC police leave them alone.
Fat? The medical terminology is obese or over-weight. Works for me. No PC required. But if someone calls be fatso, I will take my fat ass and squish their skinny little ass into the wall.
There is nothing inherently offensive with the terms gay and lesbian, so I hope the PC police leave them alone.
Fat? The medical terminology is obese or over-weight. Works for me. No PC required. But if someone calls be fatso, I will take my fat ass and squish their skinny little ass into the wall.
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