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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The only metaller/goth in the office...There's a thing,
Where I work, I am probably the only token metaller/goth (delete where appropriate). And yes, I do have the long hair, into the music, and all that. And, even take a goth route of sometimes proudly wearing pinstripe for work (as I am an Office Admin).
For years, they have taken the piss in a jovial manner. Such as numerous references to "Hair getting in the way of my ears" (despite being tied up), and other such things.
One example I can think of is, say, an exhaust system or a load of piping or whatever being brought through the offices by our stores manager, en-route to his department in the building. He would quote something along the lines of "Hey Panteneman, you new hair straighteners are here, and the new hair dryer is in stores for yer you got from eBay!". And somehow, this guy, and loads of others take the piss out of my hair or whatever. Or if I am reading Terrorizer in the staff canteen, one person would enter to make a coffee and quote "Is that the latest edition of Satanic Ritualist with the special on goat sacrificing?". You get the picture.
I could, in theory, sue the place until it collapses. But do I?
No!
They're merely just having a laugh, banter, call it what you will. And 90% of the time, take it on the chin and it doesnt' bother me.
It appears ok to mock someone that is Caucasian and a metaller/goth like me, but if it were anyone else there would be a big tribunal about it all.
This is definitely political correctness gone mad.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 20:49, 7 replies)
But on the counter argumentMetallers/Goths have never been an oppressed minority.
They're just a bunch of sulky teenagers...
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:08, closed)
wait......you're supposed to be misunderstood and unhappy, you're a fucking goth.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:58, closed)
Bollocks(1) Errrm...nope, not a sulky teenager
(2) Yaaaawnnn! What a shite cliche with the misunderstood and unhappy bit. And being a "Fucking Goth" as you so eloquently put it. Clearly the latter poster must be some chav trend wanker methinks...
(3)Not oppressed eh? Explain this then: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Lancaster
Oooooh! really inventive. Try harder. NEXT!
/end sarcasm
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 0:11, closed)
I get this as wellOnly metalhead in the office, I have the piss taken out of me and give back as good as I get. People have asked why I "put up with it"... I put up with it because I have a fucking sense of humour, unlike them!
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 8:59, closed)
Hang on...You've just stated that "They're merely just having a laugh, banter, call it what you will", and in the very next sentence, have accused them of potentially racially-motivated abuse for the exact same comments.
Make your mind up.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 9:41, closed)
Yeah, is is all very well but....I COULD take them to the cleaners about it if I wished, BUT, as Vulcan15 quoted have a sense of humour about it, and laugh it off.
At times when I have been that fucked off with the place, I COULD have started a war in the place about it.
A fair quantity of the P.C. gone mad examples seem to have the root cause of one of the parties involved having a sense of humour failure that goes too far. As one persons sense of humour varies compared to someone else.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 11:14, closed)
ermsurely being a goth/whatever is a lifestyle choice, and being black/white/disabled/gay isn't?
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 18:25, closed)
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