[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I figure this thread can be used anytime an instance comes up of political correctness comes up. Here's the first entry, a boy had all of his birthday party invitations confiscated because his school said he was discriminating against those who were not invited.

http://apnews.myway..../D91K26KG3.html

[Illuyankas]

I want to punch that teacher in the cunt.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Now you're the one being PC! :D

[Cause]

Well their was an ad in my country with a black female and white female advertising washing powder. Someone complained it was offensive. It got pulled from the air and a week later it was back up on tv with the roles of each character now swopped between the races

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

What were the roles?

[HoosierDaddy]

Ooh, how about this. I think it falls under the censor police like P.C. stuff does.

In a neighboring city here, housewives picketed, protested, and wrote op-ed's in the newspaper because the display models in the Victoria Secret store were positioned too lewdly.

Me, I'm unsurprised by the fact that guys weren't involved.

[Mushroom]

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Um, this is not a place to post things that are racist or not PC. It is for instances where PC is taken too far.

[HoosierDaddy]

Mushroom;343310 said:

Perchance his meaning was that this picture had been made "unpc" at some point and forgot to add the additional information. Or not.

[Cause]

Raymond Luxury Yacht;343220 said:

What were the roles?

If I remeber correctly which I might not been a long time. The black female visits her friend the white female. Who decides its a good time to do the washing. While shes doing the watching she explains to the black women that omo is the best washing powder. It keeps whites whiter and colours brighter without the harmful affects of bleech.The black female is amazed and makes sure she will by omo for her own washing machine.

Apparently it was patonizing that a white women should speak about omo to black women so they switched the roles

[Binder of Demons]

A friend of mine that works in social services in Ireland was telling me that they were given instruction on not using words that might cause offence.

Apparently you shouldn't use the word BRAINSTORM when talking about bouncing around ideas, because of a perceived slang association with epilepsy!!!! And if someone who has epilepsy (or knows someone with epilepsy) overheard this they'd be highly offended. I couldn't believe it. But she was serious.

My grandmother used to run a B&B in Ireland, that had a sign in front of it for 40 years which said "Famous in Song and Craic" (it was also written in Irish underneath it). Then out of the blue one day, she had a local woman come in a tell her that they should take down that sign, because tourists might look at the sign and think it was referring to Crack Cocaine!! Yeah, that's clearly what it was saying. Twit. At least my grandmother told her to stop being stupid.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

That seems a little oversensitive.

[Binder of Demons]

True enough RLY. But speaking of oversensitive, a friend of mine was lecturing in a uni in California a few years ago, and he came into the lecture theatre and the students were being moderately rowdy. So to get them to all sit down, he said "All right boys and girls, settle down there". Nothing more than that. And yet the next day he was "spoken to" by the Dean, because some students had taken offence at being referred to as boys and girls and had complained.

He had a few other examples of this stupid oversensitivity and PC gone mad. He was delighted when he came across the following advertising campaign in the UK, and that's how the other stuff came up in conversation.

[Menandore]

The dean should have told the students to **** off, get a grip and stop wasting his time

[Binder of Demons]

@ Menadore. True enough, I think it went along the lines of, look you're not realy in any trouble, but i have to warn you that i've had complaints...etc. Please don't do it again.

But yeah, I'd have been less diplomatic with the students for sure. It amazing how easily people can find offence too when they look for it. That's why he was so excited to see the Yorkie ad's and was looking forward to taking some of the wrappers back with him for a laugh.

[Aptorian]

Reminds me of the stories of towns outlawing Christmas because it's christian and therefore not sensitive to other religions.

Or that mall that had santas laughter changed because saying "HO HO HO" might be offensive to women.

[Macros]

They're not christmas lights, they're festive decorations!
Horseshit, they're up for christmas, that one annoys me alot.
Heard on the radio on.....tuesday that a survey (read "blantant lie"vey) suggested up to 77% of males in ireland have been sexually harassed.
When a few "experts" were brought in and questions on the statistic, most rubished it, bt the 2 behind the survey tried to justify the claim saying the results didnt lie.
When probed deeper it turned up that the survey suggested any kind of banter involving lewd jokes, suggestive remarks, LOOKS (as in a knowing look) was sexual harassment.
I mean WTF? Every monday at work the topic of conversation is who did what "I saw you with that girl you dirty bastard etc" that is not harassment, its a bit of banter, give and take everyone gets it. People need to grow up, if they arent mature enough to realise what a bit of messing about is they shouldnt be allowed to participate in these studies.
In the bar the majourity of my conversations with the female staff members was dirty jokes suggestive remarks and the like, and they gave as good as they got, if any of the staff hooked up they rightly got ripped on for it.
[urlhttp://www.irishexaminer.com/text/story.asp?j=gbojaugbcwcwauau&p=65x63y8x&n=65063221]linky[/url]
Now I'm not suggesting we go back to the days when women could get nowhere without sleeping with the boss (though lets face it that would be a fantastic solution) but people need to start opperating with a pinch of commonsense when approach pc

[Mushroom]

Personally I think everyone needs to be honest all the time. Regardless.

[Macros]

spade=spade?

[Menandore]

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@ Menadore. True enough, I think it went along the lines of, look you're not realy in any trouble, but i have to warn you that i've had complaints...etc. Please don't do it again.

But yeah, I'd have been less diplomatic with the students for sure. It amazing how easily people can find offence too when they look for it. That's why he was so excited to see the Yorkie ad's and was looking forward to taking some of the wrappers back with him for a laugh.

That dean is part of the problem though because he didn't set those idiot students straight like he should have done, now they will enter into the real grown-up world believing that their behaviour is acceptable and that they should go whining to their superiors everytime someone phrases something in a way that can be twisted into something offensive. Their pathetic whining has been encouraged and they will be the next generation of sad little council workers who make up utterly retarded rules such as banning xmas in case it offends other religions. Uh oh....you got me started. Must stop ranting, must stop ranting....

Yorkies - awsome campaign. Pleasantly surprised they got away with it rather than getting burned at the stake by a bunch of feminists.