Today's Lesson on Political Correctness
I work in the design of facilities and have gotten some new insights I thought I'd share with you all. When designing a facility it's important to place the proper room names on the drawings. This has spawned some interesting discussion lately. FYI: "Housekeeping" is now considered an offensive word. Also, the current proper term for restrooms for various genders are called "all gender" restrooms.
I hope this helps.
I hope this helps.
Democrats: Purple. The color of the self-proclaimed royalty because they always seem to be insisting they can do anything and everything better than anyone else.
Republicans: Yellow. The color of the politician with no backbone.
Socialists/Communists: Red. The color of the blood of the hundreds of millions slain to uphold their tyrrany.
Constitutionalists: Blue. The color of the original uniforms worn by the Continental Army Officers - since the "enlisted" men frequently had only the clothes on their backs and sometimes not even shoes on their feet.
Libertarians: Gold. The color of real money (not the printed stuff).
One World Governmenters: Black. The color of the despair caused by economic manipulation via any number of tools: currency manipulation, quantitative easing, inflation, the UN, etc.
Environmentalists: Brown. That's what color they would be if they actually lived what they preach (what really is the color of hypocrisy?) from sitting in dirt floors all the time.
I'm sure others can chime in with their ideas as well.
;^)
Down here in the South we used to have gas stations with 3 restrooms each. They were: Ladies, Gentlemen, Colored (for all of those who supposedly didn't fit in the first two categories).
If your facility is large enough to need multi-user restrooms. maybe that's the way to go. You see a third, "family" restroom sometimes in airports.
If it's smaller, just provide several non-denominational restrooms for one user at a time.
Or, install a urinal in the Ladies room, mark the doors "US" and "THEM", sit back and watch the fracas.
I also like the unprincipaled office.
We had "Bath Rooms" but there were NO Bath Tubs OR Showers.
You would probably get a promotion for suggesting that.
A damned banana peel in a tree is racially offensive these days :) We are definitely in Orwellian times.
[Still don't know why we call them 'bathrooms' in buildings not considered our living quarters...no one is taking a bath, at least I hope not. Let's just call them: Excrement Disposal Rooms instead!].
Also...about 'gender' pronouns...how about just saying: You or This Person, maybe even 'IT' if you pissed enough and be done with it. Sure would save a lot of trees needed for the additional listings of faux gender pronouns being invented.
ahem.....
Personally I make no attempt to be politically correct and occasionally catch quite a bit of flack, either through work or my wife. I honestly do not care if I hurt someone's feelings and would argue that they are hurting my feelings by being such whiny pieces of shit. So maybe they should attempt to be politically correct and grow a pair.
For all gender rest rooms, I think I always called them all gender or "family". I don't actually have a name for that. Most of the world calls them "the toilets", but that sounds crass to my American ear. My kids watch so much Canadian TV I expect "washroom" will make inroads with the generation after me.