Today's Lesson on Political Correctness

Posted by $ Abaco 9 years ago to Politics
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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.


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  • Posted by rhfinle 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Oh darn, now we have to add a third restroom, maybe with an upside-down Mercedes logo, or just a blank logo.
    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.
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  • Posted by rhfinle 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Agreed, but the pants and dress characters may cause confusion amongst the confused. I say put an arrow or banana on one and an upside-down peace sign on the other, for clarity.
    ;^)
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  • Posted by walkabout 9 years ago
    As Churchill noted: first we shape our building/institutions; then they shape us.
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  • Posted by ArLyneDiamond1961 9 years ago
    I find it frightening to see how much we have exaggerated and distorted the desire for courtesy towards those that are different from us. Not using nasty and insulting words has turned into "micro-aggression" and safe spaces - it feels a lot like the start (middle!) of thought control. Anthem, here we come!
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  • Posted by Ben_C 9 years ago
    How about "bodily waste evacuation center"? But then will those with male genitalia lift the evacuation device lid?
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  • Posted by $ blarman 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Green is also the other perverted one. The Green Party isn't in favor of the environment, they're communists by another name. If I had to colorize the parties, I think I'd go this way:

    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.
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  • Posted by peterchunt 9 years ago
    I encountered PC a number of years ago at work. Words like manpower were verboten and the proper word to use was FTE (full time equivalent). I never accepted this but moved on quickly in case I might use the wrong word and get fired or demoted because of it.
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  • Posted by $ 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, isn't this a component of "Rule for Radicals"? I know, from experience, it's a leftist/progressive thing to attack language. I love how Eric Blair addressed this in 1984...
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  • Posted by mccannon01 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, leftists attempt to confuse. One of the most confusing now is the use of red and blue. When I was growing up though the '50s and decades after, red was always used to denote leftist socialists and communists and blue the good guys of the free world. Now all of a sudden due to an MSM propaganda storm we are forced to accept the opposite. I say what?!
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  • Posted by mccannon01 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I believe the PC quote was Harry Truman to Douglas MacArthur regarding the new delicacies of dealing with the defeated Japanese. PC has been encroaching on our society for a long time. Oddly, this little tidbit was from a Democrat! At least that is what I last heard of that quote.
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  • Posted by ProfChuck 9 years ago
    This is so Orwellian that it is hard to believe. Much of our thinking is in terms of words, the meaning of words and our understanding of that meaning. To alter the meaning of words is to alter our ability to think about the subjects related to those words. This is well understood' is intentional and is an integral component of the liberal-progressive strategy for thought control. Some people wonder why a dead language, Latin, is still taught and why it is an important part of the terminology of law and medicine. The reason is simple, dead languages do not evolve so meanings remain intact. They escape corruption by ideology. At least that is the hope.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 9 years ago
    I'm reminded of an old poster of a old lady, saying "Restroom? Hell, I ain't tired. Where's the can?" Other terms are latrine, head, lavatory, water closet (WC for short), loo (if you're from the UK). If you want to have fun with progressives, start using these terms randomly and interchangeably. Oh, and only post the labels in braille.
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  • Posted by Exitstageright 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I quit saying "I have to go the john" some time ago. I now refer to the "John" with the new term "Jim". Saying I am going to the jim insinuates a desire to stay fit.
    ahem.....
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  • Posted by Eyecu2 9 years ago
    Not sure who I am quoting here but I once heard the definition of Political Correctness as, the attempt to pickup a turd by the clean end.

    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.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years ago
    So, "housekeeping" is now a sub-catagory of -- what? Sanitation Engineer? Let's see if this works; Sanitation Engineer, Sub. Individual Room Immaculator? Or how about, All Gender restrooms? Bring back the old song &; musical, "Stop The World, I Want To Get Off."
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  • Posted by $ blarman 9 years ago
    Renaming something is just another tactic by leftists to attempt to confuse what really are simple issues. Housekeeping is exactly that: keeping the house. If one attaches a stereotype to it, its probably because every time I've been to a hotel in the past ten years its been a Hispanic woman doing the cleaning. And they're restrooms - by gender - for a reason. The hardware is there to facilitate the needs of the software. If you can't figure out which one you are, you need more help than a sign on a door is going to give you.
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