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[rant] I'm getting tired of tip toeing around trying not to offend anyone with what I say.

Don't call a fat person person...say heavy, big boned,etc....whatever.

Don't call a short person short?
Gay??? NO! Homosexual!

Tired of it....... I don't want to offend people, I just feel it's far to easy to hurt people's feelings these days. Everyone walks around with their 'feelings' on their sleeves ready to sue, fire, call names...."racist,hate monger" whatever...

It's too much of a touchy feely world out there.... [/rant]

:eeeekkk
 
I blame Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and Dragon Tales.

Seriously, I do. When my kids were preschoolers we watched these shows and I was amazed at how much the theme of "Don't hurt feelings" was portrayed over and over.

Someone gave my daughter a "Dragon Tales" books... I read it to her once then I went of a mini rant of my own.

The story basically was this... at recess the kids would race each other. One of the girls would always lose... not come in last, just not come in first. She got "hurt feelings" because she was never the winner. Finally, she ran away in tears. Her friends asked her what was wrong so she whined and cried and told them how much it hurt her that she was never the winner.

So, they all decided to never race each other again, but play different games... ones without winners or loser. The End.

I threw the thing away. Seriously, I did.

Anyway, we now have a generation of adult people who grew up on kiddie programing in which the worst possible thing anyone could do would be to "hurt feelings"...

And, we're reaping the whirlwind...
 
I tend to be afraid of offending people no matter what because that's just the way I am. But yeah. They do get offended too easily.
 
handy said:
I blame Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and Dragon Tales.

Seriously, I do. When my kids were preschoolers we watched these shows and I was amazed at how much the theme of "Don't hurt feelings" was portrayed over and over.

Someone gave my daughter a "Dragon Tales" books... I read it to her once then I went of a mini rant of my own.

The story basically was this... at recess the kids would race each other. One of the girls would always lose... not come in last, just not come in first. She got "hurt feelings" because she was never the winner. Finally, she ran away in tears. Her friends asked her what was wrong so she whined and cried and told them how much it hurt her that she was never the winner.

So, they all decided to never race each other again, but play different games... ones without winners or loser. The End.

I threw the thing away. Seriously, I did.

Anyway, we now have a generation of adult people who grew up on kiddie programing in which the worst possible thing anyone could do would be to "hurt feelings"...

And, we're reaping the whirlwind...
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EXACTLY!!

When I played baseball we had MVP (most valuable player). Anothey kid and I were in a struggle to get it every year. It was good for competetition, learning, and self esteem. Not everyone's trophy's looked the same or were the same size.

NOW, everyone gets a 'participation' trophy!! :eeeekkk The kid that rarely shows up for practice gets the same trophy as the kid that practiced for 10hrs a week to do his best, the one that hits the home runs and makes the plays. :nono2

At school. Kids have to give birthday invitations to EVERYONE in the class or no one at all. What kind of kid is friends with EVERYONE in his or her class? :eeeekkk

Communists!! :D
 
[video=youtube;Rm2oU735lIw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm2oU735lIw[/video]
Brad Stine: "What does that mean, we're all winners? It means you tried. If you tried, nobody won. If nobody won, we're all losers. That's what I'm talking about, that's what I'm talking about. We live in a country that would rather teach you you're all a bunch of losers than to teach you that somebody might be better than you at something."
 
gojubrian.

funagoshi sensei would roll in his grave at what has happened to his shotokan. he said one must train for combat and use realistic training to survive.
 
I also hate living in a PC world. I wish all computers were Linux! Oh, wrong PC, sorry! :lol


Hey, I'm taking the rainbow back, if you know what I mean. And I'm also going to have a gay time, and by that mean "good" time. I get tired of stuff and language like that being hijacked.
 
Everybody advertised cigarettes back in the day... Most people didn't realize how bad they were except the tobacco companies. Lot's of booze was advertized back then as well.

Most of us kids didn't pay the least bit of attention to the commercials...

Quite a few of us managed to grow up without killing ourselves via smokes as well... and believe me... the ones who started during the Flintstones years certainly had ample opportunity to learn how bad cigarettes are and take their own responsibility to stop.
 
Yeah, I thought this was a Personal Computer World magazine thread. And a linux can be a PC, just like an mac or windows. If you own it, its a pc.
 
Psh, I thought it was talking about political correctness specifically on the internet. A little while later I saw someone else use the same abbreviation and then I finally figured out it meant "politically correct".
 
If someone is legitimately hurt by ANYTHING we refer to them as, I believe we are in no position to say they shouldn't. The fact that they are sensitive to it should be enough for us to avoid the term.

The frustrating thing is that most of the time it seems it isn't the people themselves that have a problem. It's a group with an agenda who use them to advance said agenda. I've used this example before. I went to Central Michigan University - the Chippewa's. The school had an outstanding relationship with the tribe. The spokesperson for the Chippewa's consistently spoke of the honor his tribe felt for the school's mascot. One thing led to another, and we were told this was a hurtful slur, demeaning the Chips. The school had press conferences along side of the Chief where they both supported the name.

It didn't matter. This cause continued being advanced even though no one knew who started it. Protesters marched in front of the admin building, none of which were Chippewa's. It barely failed to garner enough signatures to make the ballot, and it was only then that it was revealed that a liberal politician from Ann Arbor who wasn't connected to the tribe drove this. He was not reelected. We almost lost our tradition because of this agenda.

Same school. We had a successful basketball coach who had the respect and love of his players sit them down in private and, trying to have a sincere moment, ask... ASK if he could call them what they called each other every day. They to a man said it was all good. He said, "You know I love you guys, and I know you love each other. Am I 'one of you'? Am I a nigger? "

No player went to the press or anyone else complaining. A writer from the school paper asked a player about the closed door meeting, and he told him about the intimate moment. THAT WAS IT! He was doomed. Even though the team was interviewed privately one by one, even though no one was offended, even though the team threatened to quit the season, the coach was dismissed. Unbelievable. :gah
 
That's what I'm talking about,Mike. It's sensitivity overload.

It can be a way of describing someone to another or a word said on the radio that some nancy didn't like..... pitiful.
 
I am a million years old... way back we would sing this little ditty..

Sticks and stone may brake my bones but can never hurt me.
 
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