Sick of having to be Politically Correct over nearly everything

[SickofThisCountry]

Dont want to cause some big debate but is anyone else on here getting sick to the back teeth of having to watch their p's and q's through fear of offending every tom, dick and harry.

[Badvoc]

Didn't it used to be called politeness and decency?....
Wonder when that changed....

[MadBraLady]

Does anyone actually have an example of them personally being corrected by an over-zealous liberal when they say "blackboard" or "bald"?

Or is it all just other people, generally, over there, being corrected by swarming armies of over-zealous liberals, so I heard from the milkman's mum who knew it absolutely for definite because she read it in the paper?

[JourneyThroughLife]

Well, when I was working in a London office, we were given a list of words we weren't allowed to use, I can't remember all of them but there were two pages of it...and blackboard and black cab were on the list, I do remember those. Now I'm in a different job in a different setting, but "chairperson" and "handyperson" are specifically to be used here, to give but two examples. It's awkward to say and I'm forever worried about getting it wrong, and I never, ever wish to be impolite by using the term chairman, but I really can't see who would be offended if I did...

[Dawndonna]

interesting and relevant
And nothing to do with the Daily Fail!

[EyePad]

Have you ever looked at the DirectGov website for jobs. To try and decifer exactly what a job title is to you and me from the description can take all day. Lots of jobs are now Technicians, or Artists.

Subway for instance employ Sandwich artists. Shop assistant to you and me.

[EyePad]

decipher Jeez, i need to go back to school

[MadBraLady]

How is calling a person who works in Subway a "sandwich artist" politically correct? Might be very silly, but I don't see what it's got to do with political correctness.

When was this Journey? Did you protest?

And why is it so hard to just say "Chair"?

[TheOriginalSteamingNit]

Sandwich artist is naff marketing, it's nothing to do with political correctness.

[EhricLovesTeamQhuay]

YABU
Political correctness just means being polite, respectful and not a racist/homophobe/ablist/general cunt. I'm ok with that.

[Lottashakingoinon]

Does anyone actually have an example of them personally being corrected by an over-zealous liberal when they say "blackboard" or "bald"?

Not exactly Madbra but I do have an example of being corrected on this very forum for using a word which I had NO IDEA was in fact disablist. I was really grateful to have it pointed out and I will never use it again. The fact that I used it in all innocence (or rather ignorance) is neither here nor there; the fact that someone may find it genuinely offensive is sufficient (and don't get me started on the term 'professionally offended'...another weasel term used by those whose thoughts and prayers are more with the offender than the offendee and very much in the same category as 'political correctness gorn mad imho!)

[SneezingwakestheJesus]

I think you mean minding your r's and s's, OP!

[Theicingontop]

I don't think about it.

Because I'm not a dickhead

[JourneyThroughLife]

MadBraLady, I was working in London from 2005 - 2008, I had been living in rural Lincolnshire before that where pc was still virtually unknown. The pc culture came as an absolute shock, I thought I was being very polite and well mannered, but clearly I was not. The list the office gave me wasn't just for me, it was a standard list that everyone had, I didn't complain because I thought I had to "keep up with modern thinking" and I must be out of date...
Now I work in a different organisation, from 2008 onwards, but also down south, so my feeling is that pc is much more of an issue down here than it is in rural parts of England...or perhaps I am just still 'behind the times'...but it still seems a bit mad...

[seeker]

Er- Eyepad- the sandwich artist thing is a marketing ploy intended to be funny. Like McDonald's University of Hamburgerology.

[JenaiMorris]

Chair is the standard, and has been for years and years.

In a fit of retro, I might start referring to myself as a manageress however

[seeker]

I'm really sorry, but I just don't believe that the term "black cab" has ever anywhere been considered offensive by anybody.

Please can somebody give one real example of something that thy wanted to say that they couldn't because of "political correctness" that wasn't racist, sexist, homophobic or disablist?

[MadBraLady]

I could never agree with any list that has "blackboard" on it, that's just silly. (How often does anyone really have to use that word anyway?)

Having said that, it would never occur to me to say "chairman" instead of "chair". I don't really understand why saying that is a problem TBH. If that makes me part of a London "PC culture" then sign me up for the gold membership.

[TheNebulousBoojum]

Well, life would be a lot simpler if my DS was just allowed to clobber anyone who called him retard. Not very PC though.

[Dawndonna]

Nebulous I taught my dd 'onanist' at a very early age. Very few know the meaning and by the time they find out, it's too late!

[Lottashakingoinon]

I love that Dawn !!

[TheNebulousBoojum]

[TheNebulousBoojum]

There are a large number of children out there whose parents are not married, OP. Would you prefer referring to them as bastards?

[chickensaladagain]

Very odd how this thread started within minutes of a completely different poster getting flamed for using words to describe certain disabilities which were becoming socially unacceptable in the early 80s when I was at school

Op there is a difference between making an honest mistake with language and deliberately using words which you know to be offensive and then waving you arms in horror screaming its PC gone mad!

[seeker]

"Well, life would be a lot simpler if my DS was just allowed to clobber anyone who called him retard. Not very PC though."

Isn't it? Where in the PC culture does it say you have to put up with crap?

Clobbering isn't very effective though- onanist is a goo plan!

[HorryIsUpduffed]

Yeah it's shit not being able to call people mongs, retards and coons any more

Wait, the opposite of that. I'm glad people don't get to be cunts without being called on it.