Do Women exist anymore? According to the PC brigade. Saying Female is Now Taboo

Eilzel wrote:Saw this earlier. Genuinely retarded. Not only is the inane avoidance of a word ridiculous, but I imagine millions not to take notice due to lack of knowing what a cervix is. The lexical gymnastics are staggering.

Ben Reilly wrote:CNN continues to use the words "women" and "female" in their headlines. One story, with admittedly bizarre wording (I followed the link and the article doesn't use either word), does not prove that the so-called PC brigade has done anything to those words.

Speaking of the PC brigade, do they have a headquarters, a leader, a contact phone number?

Only asking because plural nouns generally lead to nonsense -- like talking about "the media" as though all media outlets report to the same leadership, pursue the same agenda, etc.

Ben wrote:Speaking of the PC brigade, do they have a headquarters, a leader, a contact phone number?

Ben Reilly wrote:CNN continues to use the words "women" and "female" in their headlines. One story, with admittedly bizarre wording (I followed the link and the article doesn't use either word), does not prove that the so-called PC brigade has done anything to those words.

Speaking of the PC brigade, do they have a headquarters, a leader, a contact phone number?

Only asking because plural nouns generally lead to nonsense -- like talking about "the media" as though all media outlets report to the same leadership, pursue the same agenda, etc.

Eilzel wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:CNN continues to use the words "women" and "female" in their headlines. One story, with admittedly bizarre wording (I followed the link and the article doesn't use either word), does not prove that the so-called PC brigade has done anything to those words.

Speaking of the PC brigade, do they have a headquarters, a leader, a contact phone number?

Only asking because plural nouns generally lead to nonsense -- like talking about "the media" as though all media outlets report to the same leadership, pursue the same agenda, etc.

Ben, you know I'm normally not for this 'anti-PC' scarongering. But this is pretty obviously an attempt to avoid a very clear word and with the unintended effect of possibly causing 40-50% of women to avoid what is an important article.

At the very least they should use the term 'biological women' on an article with such importance.

I naturally support trans rights, but these kinds of lexical word games are unwarranted.

Syl wrote:What do people expect?
They have looked the other way whilst all this ridiculousness was creeping into society.
I started a thread a couple of years ago, and I think it was in here, saying I thought it was pathetic the way some mainstream department stores would no longer sell uniforms designed for 'girls' and 'boys', school clothing would be advertised and displayed as unisex.
Everyone thought that was a good idea.

It's as if the sexes were no longer separated, somehow insulting to identify clothes for male and female as being different.

Well look where all that got us, women cant even have a bloody cervix to themselves now.

Original Quill wrote:

Syl wrote:What do people expect?
They have looked the other way whilst all this ridiculousness was creeping into society.
I started a thread a couple of years ago, and I think it was in here, saying I thought it was pathetic the way some mainstream department stores would no longer sell uniforms designed for 'girls' and 'boys', school clothing would be advertised and displayed as unisex.
Everyone thought that was a good idea.

It's as if the sexes were no longer separated, somehow insulting to identify clothes for male and female as being different.

Well look where all that got us, women cant even have a bloody cervix to themselves now.

Scottish boys have worn "uniforms designed for girls" since the sixteenth century.  It's all about custom.  Customs change.  Go with the flow.

Who wants to be an old fuddy-duddy, mumbling about how, 'in-my-day' we walked to school even in a blizzard!  Meh, now they have school buses...are they pc?  Mostly, by "pc" we are cherry-picking changes we don't like, while enthusiastically embracing changes we do like.

It's just grumpy old men, with tobacco-stained beards, who shout out about pc.

The marketplace of ideas will take care of the truly bad things.  Otherwise, if it’s just not to your liking, consider yourself in the minority and move on.

Syl wrote:Scottish males wear kilts, nothing to do with school uniforms where SKIRTS not kilts are designed for females not males.

Syl wrote:It's actually anti pc nowadays to recognise that there are two main genders and a tiny minority that may fall in between, and even the tiny minority usually want to be one or the other.

Syl wrote:By pretending that the cervix is not a female organ?

It's as ridiculous as these men pretending to be women claiming they have periods....and I do mean pretending, I'm not demeaning any  women who was born male and has undergone surgery.

Original Quill wrote:

Ben wrote:Speaking of the PC brigade, do they have a headquarters, a leader, a contact phone number?

Use of "PC" is wrong on two levels: 1) PC is meant to ridicule the newly-arrived norms, but there are pc causes for which the law has been on the books for 100-years or more; and 2) like ANTIFA, it's just a term meant to indicate an attitude or mindset.

Tommy Monk wrote:The question should be... 'does any of this new fangled politically correct mumbo jumbo have any real democratic authority at all...!!!???'