Political Correctness: Will the Crippling Effect Ever End?

[Aristotle]

Originally posted by Salimar
Imagine you didn't go training or you were loafing during training because, you were drinking beers with your mates and met this gorgeous lady that rocked you all night... do you think you are gonna care whether the coach is going to make you were a pink sweater in the next training session... I would not!!!

Well, since you are a woman, how does what you would do apply whatsoever to what would motivate a male football player?

People who participate in team sports at a high level most certainly DO care what their teammates think about them.

And banging some tawdry whore you picked up a bar doesn't rank very high if it results in letting down your 80+ teammates.

Originally posted by Salimar
And if you are not giving 100% in training, the pink jersey is not gonna help.

Um.... Yes it will. It is called peer pressure. In case you aren't aware, social beings like humans are heavily affected by the opinions of their peers.

Originally posted by Salimar

Maybe you need motivation and not embarrassment in from of your team....

Embarassment = motivation.

Originally posted by Salimar
MEN! I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THEM.

It seems like you aren't trying. Your first response was "doesn't this guy read fashion magazines?"

If in every situation you don't observe what happened and instead expect everyone else to behave the way you would, you aren't going to learn very much about others.

[Gadiantor]

Originally posted by Salimar
Gandiator, the whole thing is a joke. Starting from the coach using pink jerseys to embarrass players. Hey! I ain't no man, but does it still affect you guys?

There are two reasons why it does affect us. The first is that by wearing a different colored jersey you are different than the rest of the team. A uniform signifies that you are a part of the group, it identifies you as part of the team. Wearing a different color (no matter what it is) takes that away. Secondly, the color pink is an effeminate color. Just like most women don’t like being considered mannish, most men don’t like being considered effeminate. This is really a simple concept. Personally, the first reason would affect me more, but the connotation of wearing pink is more powerful than any other color.

[Gilgamar]

I feel sad that this even has to be explained.

[Belaraiya]

Even being a chick, being forced to wear pink would embarrase me into doing almost anything

[Aristotle]

More retarded political correctness:

Florida, Georgia want change to Cocktail moniker

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Florida and Georgia no longer want to be known for throwing the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.

The annual football game in Jacksonville between the Southeastern Conference rivals has been called the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party by fans and the media since the 1950s. But the deaths of two students in the past two years, and an emphasis on responsible alcohol use, has prompted the universities to ask television networks to stop using the moniker.

Yeah, lets flush a 56 year old traditional name because I'm sure calling it something else will result in college kids drinking less.

What a pile of shit.

Offensive is just another buzz-word used by people who don't give a shit about any cause but themselves trying to make it look like they're wonderful human beings with the best interests of others at heart.

I could look around my room and find a hundred things that offended me if I were to make stupidly vauge connections with them. It's so bullshit.

[Aristotle]

What amazes me is that they seem to think pressuring networks not to call it by its 50+ year traditional name is going to reduce the amount of drinking.

As if there is not a lot of drinking at every other game every other week of the year?

Hell, one year when UT came to play I saw a guy get his head bashed in with a beer bottle downtown. And this was when UT was in the midst of having beaten us like 10+ years in a row (thank god we've had revenge 4 of the last 5 years).

And then the stupid, pansy ass networks kissing up and going along with it. Just like they go along with the whole idiocy of the BCS. Ugh.

[Shykiran]

Well I read in a UK national paper about a month ago that

"Snow White and the 7 dwarves"

will no longer be able to have this title very soon as people with hmm. dwarfism (dont know the term) find it insulting. The title now has to be

"Snow White and the 7 little people"

but surely the term dwarf means a person who is small, but all limbs are in proprtion to the rest of his body, so maybe I would have to be a dwarf to understand why that term is offensive. Oh, and of course the whole move was instigated by a .. ahem.. normal sized person (nwarf?)

So if we change the names of fantasy cartoons asuch as Snow White, Will we have to go through books such as lord of the rings and change every reference of dwarf to little person so we dont offend?

I cant imagine bumping into Nahini in thresh (beserk fighter, female dwarf, looking at her and seeing)

You see a female little person, with a battle axe'. just does not have the same.. umph!

OK, by the main counter at work we've got one of those big badge dispenser thingies as seems to be the trend in most stores over here these days. Amongst the usual Family Guy, tupac, LOTR, anti-Bush and other popular slogans there's one with a rainbow on it with "It's a matter of pride" written underneath. Clearly you have to be less than twelve years old or dumber than Forrest Gump not to get what this means, but a lot of the time little kids come in and buy these badges and others with slogans they really won't understand (including the hilarious picture of an eye, a heart and a cartoon cat *sigh) and most of the time their parents try to discreetly steer them away from these ones.

On one of my last shifts this happened, little approximatley six year old girl comes in with her mother, while mummy's browsing through the latest shite releases staring Colin Firth the kid's looking through the badges and decides she wants the "pride" one, thinking it's just a pretty rainbow. Mother, smiling in a somewhat embaressed manner, tells child no and proceeds to pay for her DVD's. Fine, fair enough, HOWEVER some woman (I'm assuming it was female, was kinda hard to tell) Who looked pretty similar to Russell Crowe in Rompter-Stomper starts laying in to the mother about how offensive she finds it and that the mother should not force her daughter to follow stereotypical roles and all this. FOR FUCK SAKE! Imagine what happens when the daughter goes in to school wearing that badge and one of the older kids realizes what it means, this woman was trying to protect her daughter from being teased about something she's far too young to understand not telling her that Jesus hates gay people or something, and gets a freaking civil rights lecture from this Russell Crowe woman. People need to learn where to draw the line with being PC

[Quilandros]

Originally posted by Shykiran
Well I read in a UK national paper about a month ago that

"Snow White and the 7 dwarves"

will no longer be able to have this title

"Snow Bright and the Seven Vertically Challenged Individuals" has been a political correctness gone mad joke for many years.