Has political correctness actually gone mad?

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Shamwow said:
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Well that's good to hear. Looks like everyone's been caught on the hop here. People complaining about their decision to ban clapping, as well as people defending their right to ban clapping. Turns out neither argument needed to be made.

Here's another one for this thread.

The police have issued a verbal warning to someone for using the wrong pronoun. Fecking hell. Seems like a ludicrous waste of finite resources.

A couple of caveats:

1. I know Graham Linehan is a bit of a tit, who is constantly involved in silly Twitter spats.
2. I know that deliberately calling someone by the wrong pronoun is a nasty thing to do.

Still, though, wtf?
 
Pogue Mahone said:
1. I know Graham Linehan is a bit of a tit, who is constantly involved in silly Twitter spats.
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Yup. Shouldn't happen to anyone, but if it had to, it's good it happened to him.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Well that's good to hear. Looks like everyone's been caught on the hop here. People complaining about their decision to ban clapping, as well as people defending their right to ban clapping. Turns out neither argument needed to be made.

Here's another one for this thread.

The police have issued a verbal warning to someone for using the wrong pronoun. Fecking hell. Seems like a ludicrous waste of finite resources.

A couple of caveats:

1. I know Graham Linehan is a bit of a tit, who is constantly involved in silly Twitter spats.
2. I know that deliberately calling someone by the wrong pronoun is a nasty thing to do.

Still, though, wtf?
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As far as I'm aware, the story goes like this right? Linehan got in a twitter spat with a woman and decided that he is the arbiter of whether someone is properly trans or not. They both doxxed each other (BBC and the guardian conveniently leave out the fact that he was accused of releasing details of her companies and addresses as well as name and phot), she called the police and they told him to stop being a weapon and knock it off, but it went no further than that.

Is there really much wrong with that?
 
NinjaFletch said:
As far as I'm aware, the story goes like this right? Linehan got in a twitter spat with a woman and decided that he is the arbiter of whether someone is properly trans or not. They both doxxed each other (BBC and the guardian conveniently leave out the fact that he was accused of releasing details of her companies and addresses as well as name and phot), she called the police and they told him to stop being a weapon and knock it off, but it went no further than that.

Is there really much wrong with that?
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Was that the offence? If so, did she get a warning too?
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Well that's good to hear. Looks like everyone's been caught on the hop here. People complaining about their decision to ban clapping, as well as people defending their right to ban clapping. Turns out neither argument needed to be made.

Here's another one for this thread.

The police have issued a verbal warning to someone for using the wrong pronoun. Fecking hell. Seems like a ludicrous waste of finite resources.

A couple of caveats:

1. I know Graham Linehan is a bit of a tit, who is constantly involved in silly Twitter spats.
2. I know that deliberately calling someone by the wrong pronoun is a nasty thing to do.

Still, though, wtf?
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He's also a massive transphobe, so I'm all for him getting the police on his door for being a cnut to trans people.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Was that the offence? If so, did she get a warning too?
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I don't think we know, as the media don't care about her. Potentially, but maybe not if he didn't make a complaint in return.

Technically I don't think there was an offence? He simply was given a verbal warning (not even a caution) and told to knock it off. I suspect the police agree with your interpretation of it being a waste of their time, hence why they did the bare minimum work after she complained.
 
Halftrack said:
He's also a massive transphobe, so I'm all for him getting the police on his door for being a cnut to trans people.
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He's a massive bellend, I'll give you that.

Transphobia seems to be a term that's used far too lightly, if you ask me. He has specific issues with trans activists and how their agenda interacts with feminism. As do a lot of other feminists. To call that transphobia seems to be a bit of a leap. Especially when you compare it to the actions/words of other "-phobes" that genuinely hate LGBTQ people.
 
NinjaFletch said:
I don't think we know, as the media don't care about her. Potentially, but maybe not if he didn't make a complaint in return.

Technically I don't think there was an offence? He simply was given a verbal warning (not even a caution) and told to knock it off. I suspect the police agree with your interpretation of it being a waste of their time, hence why they did the bare minimum work after she complained.
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Surely the bare minimum of work would be to look at the offending tweets and tell her this isn't an issue for the police?
 
Pogue Mahone said:
He's a massive bellend, I'll give you that.

Transphobia seems to be a term that's used far too lightly, if you ask me. He has specific issues with trans activists and how their agenda interacts with feminism. As do a lot of other feminists. To call that transphobia seems to be a bit of a leap. Especially when you compare it to the actions/words of other "-phobes" that genuinely hate LGBTQ people.
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Not when it comes to Linehan. There's no other word to describe his opinions on, and behavior towards trans people. From petty stuff, like insisting on referring to trans women as 'he', to referring to post-op trans people as "something out of a David Cronenberg movie" and labeling SRS "self-mutilation".

None of that has anything to do with having an issue with trans activist, it's pure unfiltered transphobia.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Well that's good to hear. Looks like everyone's been caught on the hop here. People complaining about their decision to ban clapping, as well as people defending their right to ban clapping. Turns out neither argument needed to be made.
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In he interests of defending my own opinions, my point was that we shouldn't dismiss this stuff out of hand and actually have a reasoned debate about it instead of taking the piss out of people who do have issues interacting with certain aspects of society due to mental or physical disabilities and I stand by that.

I also think that right wing papers stir this shit relentlessly and unfortunately it gets lapped up as the truth when time and time again it turns out not to be the case.
 
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Ian Reus said:
Kleenex pulls mansize tissues off the shelves due to snowflake whispers of sexism.
Feck aff and dry your eyes with them instead.
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Renaming them to Extra Large will also be problematic. Someone will complain they are only for fat people. They should have named them PC friendly, gender neutral, ambiguous sized, anyone tissues. Very catchy i think.
 
I really hope a teenage girl says something incendiary to her 4 twitter followers in a couple of weeks time so we can get a daily mail two-pager where they're telling us that that PC is taking down the country on one page and that people who don't wear poppies should be exiled on the next
 
Silva said:
I really hope a teenage girl says something incendiary to her 4 twitter followers in a couple of weeks time so we can get a daily mail two-pager where they're telling us that that PC is taking down the country on one page and that people who don't wear poppies should be exiled on the next
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This is exactly how it is as well :lol:
A quick twitter search shows that there's way more people, complaining that there's people offended by 'man size', than there are actually people offended by 'man size'

I wish I had time to curate a website and catch all the pc-gone mad & social media has gone too far folk, it's such easy bait.
 
Ian Reus said:
It does for me when the issue was complaints due to possible sexism.
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From the website you quoted;

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So tissues for men are the biggest, strongest and best?
This could've been marketed without using gender, but gender was specifically used - why, if not sexism?
 
villain said:
From the website you quoted;

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So tissues for men are the biggest, strongest and best?
This could've been marketed without using gender, but gender was specifically used - why, if not sexism?
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Why can't we just market towards men without women getting offended?
I'm pretty sure there's loads of stuff aimed at women with absolutely no regard for men. And why should they if their market is women.
 
John Berger would've had a field day with that advert. And quite right too.
 
Ian Reus said:
Why can't we just market towards men without women getting offended?
I'm pretty sure there's loads of stuff aimed at women with absolutely no regard for men. And why should they if their market is women.
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You said that your issue was sexism, implying that it's not sexist to begin with - i'm asking you, is that marketing sexist or not?

Also, there's maybe 2,000 people on twitter who are 'offended', and 10's thousands more who question that there dare be people who take offence to gendered products.
So who is more likely to be the snowflakes?

We could go down and compare gendered products, I don't think it would work in the way you think it would - quite frankly i'm surprised women aren't outraged daily at the female equivalents that we have to endure - usually for more money too.
 
villain said:
You said that your issue was sexism, implying that it's not sexist to begin with - i'm asking you, is that marketing sexist or not?

Also, there's maybe 2,000 people on twitter who are 'offended', and 10's thousands more who question that there dare be people who take offence to gendered products.
So who is more likely to be the snowflakes?

We could go down and compare gendered products, I don't think it would work in the way you think it would - quite frankly i'm surprised women aren't outraged daily at the female equivalents that we have to endure - usually for more money too.
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Not my issue. My tissue.
 
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