Has political correctness actually gone mad?

Bury Red said:
Just look at the way the Pakistani cricket team are referred to in Australia and New Zealand and try to imagine the commentators in the UK using the same word.
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It is because Aussies are so good at racial sensitivity ;)
 
Wibble said:
I grew up in the North and it wasn't a widely used term there. Far more a Southern term (although also apparently a Scottish term with a somewhat different but also negative meaning) but it has always been a term similar to "her indoors" or even more like "little woman at home". It's dictionary definition even says it is derogatory https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/wifey

Lots of terms are used without intent but shouldn't be used as they perpetuate stereotypes or confirms prejudice/discrimination. "The missus", which I have used on here but now try to avoid, implies ownership and we own pets not women. I'm sure there are other terms I use I shouldn't out of habit and I'm trying to stop. Just because people are unaware of it's meaning doesn't make it ok to use. We didn't give Suarez a break for using racists language because he said it wasn't insulting where he came from and we shouldn't do the same for sexist language.

We seem to have got a much better handle on not casually using racist language than we do on not using sexist language.
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Defo agree with that. I hadn't really given it much thought, but I routinely use 'the missus' as a term, which maybe isn't the best.
 
Wibble said:
I grew up in the North and it wasn't a widely used term there. Far more a Southern term (although also apparently a Scottish term with a somewhat different but also negative meaning) but it has always been a term similar to "her indoors" or even more like "little woman at home". It's dictionary definition even says it is derogatory https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/wifey

Lots of terms are used without intent but shouldn't be used as they perpetuate stereotypes or confirms prejudice/discrimination. "The missus", which I have used on here but now try to avoid, implies ownership and we own pets not women. I'm sure there are other terms I use I shouldn't out of habit and I'm trying to stop. Just because people are unaware of it's meaning doesn't make it ok to use. We didn't give Suarez a break for using racists language because he said it wasn't insulting where he came from and we shouldn't do the same for sexist language.

We seem to have got a much better handle on not casually using racist language than we do on not using sexist language.
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Usually agree with you in these types of threads but think you’re wide of the mark here.

Agree with you’re last paragraph though
 
My first few weeks at Bristol Uni were a bit disconcerting due to the language used by the locals.
Buying a paper or a pack of smokes from a newsagents and the lady behind the till would say "Alroight my lover" as a greeting (can't adequately spell that out in a proper Bristolian accent).
And no, it wasn't because I was actually her lover before anyone asks :)

Can't understand why people are getting their knickers in a twist about wifey either. Or 'missus' for that matter.
 
It's a private matter between partners.
Due to growing up with "kjærring" being a replacement for "kjære" I started out using that, she doesn't approve so I try my best to cut it out when speaking to or around her.
She has no problem with any other words I use.

This is the sort of thing that matters in context of the partnership, not in the dictionary.
 
Wibble said:
No it doesn't.
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People “infantised” women and implied ownership using the word wifey. But they also infantised and implied ownership of women using the word wife. The terminology isn’t the issue here, it’s the discrimation against women which is. The vast majority of terms relating to women, be it anatomy or pronouns have been used in derogatory ways. Clearly denigrating words based solely on past usage by some is not the way to go, but by looking at the context with which the word is used you can assess whether it is belittling or not.
 
Knew the DM readers would be pleased...

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711 said:
I don't know, I never met him. I've remembered his name though, John McCririck, met him once and he was extremely patient and friendly with everyone, nicer in real life than he comes across on the telly. Very Tory apparently, but we didn't go into that.
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Mmm, :confused:
 
Cheesy said:
I mean, it's amusing...but anyone who genuinely thinks we're living in that sort of world needs their head checked.
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It does feel like it sometimes.
 
Cheesy said:
I mean, it's amusing...but anyone who genuinely thinks we're living in that sort of world needs their head checked.
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Is it amusing though? It's just a long list of imagined grievances...

Could have been posted by the rn7 person in the 500k thread. It's posts like that that convince me the "too much pc" crowd have absolutely nothing legitimate to complain about.
 
Grylte said:
It does feel like it sometimes.
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If you pretend, sure.

Abizzz said:
Is it amusing though? It's just a long list of imagined grievances...

Could have been posted by the rn7 person in the 500k thread. It's posts like that that convince me the "too much pc" crowd have absolutely nothing legitimate to complain about.
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Yeah, amusing was being kind.
 
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