Political Correctness: Will the Crippling Effect Ever End?

[Aristotle]

I don't think playing pro hockey and working on a kids show are terribly comparable.

As for the term sloppy seconds, its mean and crude but not that hideous. I doubt it would even raise an eyebrow from censors on television. There is even a 20+ year old band named Sloppy Seconds.

They guy sounds like a pig, but then again maybe Elisha Cuthbert was a real shit to him. Who knows. Regardless, one would think the standard would need to be a lot higher before we start punishing people for their words. It was a personal matter after all, and a personal insult.

[Kailen]

Originally posted by 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.

I highly doubt using a quote from Urban Dictionary actually helps to validate your argument. As far as the other things that were mentioned previously in your post. There seems to be a fabric of Common Sense and Tolerance that has escaped the American public and your argument.
People have grown to soft and stupid. They have lost the cock n balls, and fortitude that has built this country over the past centuries.Over legislating, and border line infringing on a person first amendment right is absurd!

What Sean Avery said is small potatoes compared to the violence that happens every game night via the fights that breakout which the ref's and the league allows to continue for a min or so.

Oh wait many will say thats part of the game? That is history?

What's far more damaging to mankind an actual onslaught of violent blows to the face that is nationally televised? or Some guy talking about other rival guys in the league who seem to chase his leftovers?



Make no doubt about it. While some may attempt to play the gender card. Women have similar titles for men, amongst their girls. So please spare the poor women angle in this.

[Malacasta]

Umm, you guys are the ones whining here. "Waah, poor sports player got banned for 6 games by his employer because he did something they didn't like"

PS, where exactly do you suggest I look for a definition of 'sloppy seconds'?

[Vidare]

Originally posted by Malacasta
Umm, you guys are the ones whining here. "Waah, poor sports player got banned for 6 games by his employer because he did something they didn't like"

PS, where exactly do you suggest I look for a definition of 'sloppy seconds'?

Definition of sloppy seconds:

"Sloppy seconds is a slang term for the practice of a man having sex with a woman immediately after another man has had sex with her, or metaphorically, regarding a "second hand" item that is presumed undesirable."

[khaltek]

My biggest problem with political correctness is that it actually -encourages- racism/bigotry etc by treating people differently dependant on the tone of their skin.

Any kind of "we're different" thinking can only be a bad thing, in my maybe flawed opinion, but oh well, I see everyone as exactly the same but with varying shades of eye colour, hair colour, skin colour, height, accent etc etc etc.

[Talsek]

Originally posted by Malacasta
Umm, you guys are the ones whining here. "Waah, poor sports player got banned for 6 games by his employer because he did something they didn't like"

PS, where exactly do you suggest I look for a definition of 'sloppy seconds'?

Glad you mentioned this actually. I thought it -should- have been a case of his employer suspending him. The suspension was handed down by the league though, and I don't think the NHL needs to be getting that intense with their policing. If the Dallas Stars decided to suspend/bench Avery, I think my reaction would have been 'Good, he deserved it.'

[Dalaena]

Originally posted by Kailen
They have lost the cock n balls, and fortitude that has built this country over the past centuries.

I'm not picking on you here, but this comment just made me laugh. 50% of us never had any cock n balls to begin with. DNA prevents it from being so.

Originally posted by Kailen

Make no doubt about it. While some may attempt to play the gender card. Women have similar titles for men, amongst their girls. So please spare the poor women angle in this.

From what I understand, and I admit I really don't follow hockey, this is incident is just in a long line of stupid things this guy has said and has probably received warnings for. While it's true that I think the woman should just shrug him off and not let him get to her, I think the NHL is within its rights to suspend him for the benefit of their own financial well-being. Certain people's personalities can turn people off to an entire genre of things, and any business-minded person probably knows that if a wife supports something her husband is into, he gets to spend a lot more money than he normally would.

And lastly, one person can affect the perception of a game, a sport, or a business very quickly and very negatively. Just recently, we had to re-enforce our stance on what would be termed political correctness on our game. We had to make it clear that certain behavior and statements were not tolerated on public channels in our game. Personally, I believe that people should not let racial slurs or sexist slurs affect their love of something, but at the same time, we needed to be clear that stuff like that is not tolerated in the environment we've created. Sometimes, seeing someone act like a douche (or a sexist pig) will encourage others to do so, and then it spirals out of control.

You may argue that hockey is a rough and tumble sport, but Threshold is a game that's based on killing a lot of things including other players. Doesn't mean that we want hate mongering and utter disrespect to be fostered in our business.

[Rosuav]

Originally posted by khaltek
My biggest problem with political correctness is that it actually -encourages- racism/bigotry etc by treating people differently dependant on the tone of their skin.

Any kind of "we're different" thinking can only be a bad thing, in my maybe flawed opinion, but oh well, I see everyone as exactly the same but with varying shades of eye colour, hair colour, skin colour, height, accent etc etc etc.

Recently there was a big political action to formally apologize to the Australian Aboriginals for the "stolen generation" situation. Personally I disagree with Mr Kevin I'm So Brilliant Rudd, so I was quite fascinated by this apology, in a very similar vein. Any time you consider treating someone differently because of skin colour, hair colour, colour of the fingernail on your right thumb, or anything equally ridiculous, have a read of this...

http://midga.blogspot.com/2008/12/to...eoples-of.html

[Maelgrim]

I LOLed hard, Ros.

Just shows you how myopic and ridiculous political correctness is when you can find a way to view it objectively.

Also, I agree with the posters bemoaning a lack of testicular fortitude, metaphoric though it may be. What the hell is next?

[Kailen]

Originally posted by khaltek
My biggest problem with political correctness is that it actually -encourages- racism/bigotry etc by treating people differently dependant on the tone of their skin.

Any kind of "we're different" thinking can only be a bad thing, in my maybe flawed opinion, but oh well, I see everyone as exactly the same but with varying shades of eye colour, hair colour, skin colour, height, accent etc etc etc.

I couldn't agree with you more Khaltek.

For instance. I'm a American. Not African-American.

Though I do understand that in things such as medicine. All of the race, gender and size detail needs to be taken into consideration for treatment and such, but out side of this spectrum it only create division and seperation.