Political Correctness: Will the Crippling Effect Ever End?

[Malacasta]

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 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"

Every so often you read articles with stories like this (though I did a search for it on google and couldn't find the story you reference) but I call foul.

What can't be called "Snow White and the 7 dwarves"? The Disney movie? The 200 year old Grimms fairy tale? Window displays? Pantomimes?

Who is going to strip the books from all the libraries in England? Who is going to stop Disney's cartoon being rented out on DVD or shown in theatres?

Frankly this sounds like some piss take of an email that a humorless journalist took seriously and printed as truth.

Correction: I did find a link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...nt/4349726.stm

[Rosuav]

And here I was, thinking it was Snow White and the Severed Wharves.

[Aristotle]

More political correctness.

Apparently some hockey player, Sean Avery, made the following comment to slag on an ex-girlfriend and a competitor:

"I'm just going to say one thing. I'm really happy to be back in
Calgary; I love Canada. I just want to comment on how it's become like
a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy
seconds. I don't know what that's about, but enjoy the game tonight."

He got suspended indefinitely, was the dominant news story until OJ's sentencing, and now has ended up with a 6 game suspension.

I seriously have to ask...... WTF?

His ex-girlfriend is some celebutard, Elisha Cuthbert I think. I think she can handle it. BFD.

[Vidare]

Originally posted by Aristotle
More political correctness.

Apparently some hockey player, Sean Avery, made the following comment to slag on an ex-girlfriend and a competitor:



He got suspended indefinitely, was the dominant news story until OJ's sentencing, and now has ended up with a 6 game suspension.

I seriously have to ask...... WTF?

His ex-girlfriend is some celebutard, Elisha Cuthbert I think. I think she can handle it. BFD.

Part of the issue at hand was that this is not the first time that Avery's been in the media spotlight briefly for comments that he's made on/off the ice. He is severely disliked around the league by both players and fans alike, for his conduct on and off the ice. While this is the first time he's been suspended for something, I believe that he has been fined in the past. His own team, the Dallas Stars (may they rot in hell), refused to hear his apology to them and is considered an outcast by most of them from all that I have read. I've seen the apology that was released to the media, and it's a cookie-cutter bullshit apology.

In regards to his suspension, the NHL has a policy that (this isn't the proper wording, I'll try and find that) basically allows them to suspend an NHL player that does something that they consider non-representative of, and detrimental to, the game hockey and it's players. While this might not be true, I heard rumor that he waited around after Tuesday morning's team skate for the media, and actually sought out someone with a camera to say what he did.

[Kailen]

The Avery situation is another form of liberalism at work. Pretty soon we won't have a bill of rights. People in American need to grow a nut sack.


And if Avery is truly disliked. Let the guy skate and get his ass whipped on the ice. He is a enforcer, I'm sure another enforcer will take him down on the ice.

[Aristotle]

Originally posted by Kailen
The Avery situation is another form of liberalism at work. Pretty soon we won't have a bill of rights. People in American need to grow a nut sack.


And if Avery is truly disliked. Let the guy skate and get his ass whipped on the ice. He is a enforcer, I'm sure another enforcer will take him down on the ice.

Yeah, that's basically how I feel. So he shot his mouth off. Big deal. He didn't say anything that bad. It was a personal matter and the people involved can either suck it up and ignore it, or get back at him.

[Jozep]

First off, Houston Nutt is awesome name!! Anyone who makes fun of it is hurting my feelings and should give me monies

On the Sean Avery thing:

Hahahahahahaha!!

Avery's a punk and will always be a punk, they should have made him play and let Phaneuf beat the hell out of him. All game long.

I don't think a player should be penalized by the league for comments they make, though. I mean, it's not like he shot himself in the leg or anything.

[Talsek]

This suspension surprised me a bit, and it's definitely overkill.

That said, I can see the motivation behind it. In recent years (basically since the lockout), you seem to only hear about hockey on mainstream radio when something shitty happens. The Todd Bertuzzi hit on Steve Moore is the first incident that comes to mind, but it's certainly not the only one. There's always some appalled backlash from non-hockey fans, dismissing the sport as violent goonery.

I think the league is pushing too far in the opposite direction while trying to change its image. In some ways that's been a good thing (e.g. rules changes to speed up the game), but stuff like this is just silly overreaction.

For my part, I am firmly in the 'let it be settled on the ice' school. On-ice justice keeps people in check. I got to watch Avery a lot when he played for the Rangers, and I loved how fired up he got. Too bad he's such a douche bag :P.

[Malacasta]

I don't know about the US or Canadian league, but in the Aussie league, they have been caught pissing on women at nightclubs, pissing on the floor in the casino, glassing people, king hitting people, and so on, and so forth.

Now the pissing thing isn't hurting anyone particularly, so it's okay right? We should just harden the fuck up right?

On the other hand, these asswipes get paid stupid amounts of money, STUPID amounts. If that means they have to abide by a minimum standard of behavior so that their hordes of eight year old fans don't grow up thinking it's perfectly cool to call some girl whose had more than one boyfriend "sloppy seconds" then I'm not going to cry for them.

I don't understand people here's problem with behaving reasonably in public (especially when you get paid for being a public personality).

[Malacasta]

Let's just be clear about what this man said about this woman - How he defined her. According to the highest ranking definition on urban dictionary (further definitions don't get any more polite),
sloppy seconds:
"shagging a cunt minutes after the previous guy, using his cum as lube"

I'm not up on the porn lexicon, but if there were a couple of words that meant your guy's cock was so tiny that his girlfriend would have more fun with her little finger, and a member of the Mickey Mouse Club used those words against an ex in public, and she was then suspended for six episodes from the Mickey Mouse Club TV show, I'd think she had it coming.