I almost posted this in the oversensitivity thread, but it's a bit of a divergance from the current vein of the topic, so...
Am I the only one who thinks that political correctness is one of the most annoying things on the planet? (with the exception of small, yappy dogs)
Most, scratch that, all of the people I know who belong to 'minority' or other groups that get labelled with PC terms think it's ridiculous. In fact, they will refer to themselves by the non-PC terms. Aboriginals ('African-American' equivalent) refer to themselves as black, Italians/Greeks refer to themselves as wogs, homosexuals refer to themselves as gays/fags. I mean c'mon, where does it stop - hell for that matter I'm half German/half Chinese and I call myself a Nazi chink (okay, maybe I wouldn't suggest that as an appropriate way to refer to Germans or Asians, but you see the point).
More relevant to this site, I have never heard a stripper refer to herself as a 'dancer' - in fact, most would laugh at the label. We are so worried that we might offend somebody, that the language is becoming ridiculous.
Maybe it's an Aussie thing, I don't know (we tend to have a very low tolerance for bullshit). For those of you who are part of 'minorities', what do you prefer? Other thoughts?


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