PC gone mad gone mad
There was a time before so-called political correctness 'went mad'. Here's a taste of what that time was like.
Mm. Sometime between that, and now, PC 'went mad'. You couldn't even paint a golliwog in faeces on a black person's face without someone from the Diversity Nazis getting all uppity about someone's so-called human rights having been infringed. It was that bad.
And then, someone thought: Oh this is a bit of a laugh. Why not call a gingerbread man a 'gingerbread person' for a chuckle, to have a sly dig at PC gone mad? No-one's going to take it seriously, are they? I mean, it'll be so obviously a joke that no-one's going to get all het up about it, are they? Are they...?
Of course they are. And they did. We are in the post humour age. An MP, and a national newspaper (rather deliciously shredded by Five Chinese Crackers here) not only thought it was PC gone mad, but didn't bother to find out whether it was or not. One phone call.
"Hello, is this PC gone mad, these gingerbread people?"
"Oh, silly, that was a joke at PC gone mad, do you see?"
"Oh, I look a bit of a tit now, good job I checked before barking about this as if it was real."
"Yes, it is a good job you checked. Mind how you go!"
No. Now the council is changing the 'people' to 'men'. Because no-one in the fucking country can take a joke any more. We're all such literal buffoons that we don't get it. It's gone. You know that thing that Brits used to say about Americans not getting irony? That's gone. That's over. Finished. Done. Bye! It's gone forever. We are now in the age where 'PC gone mad' has gone mad. We are a laughing stock. Except we probably wouldn't get the joke.
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November 13th, 2010 - 10:44
From the BBC article: “They were clearly men – they were not wearing skirts.”
Why do MPs make me so angry? If it’s not Dorries, it’s this chump.
Another interesting thing about Political Correctness Gone Mad is how its biggest proponent (The Daily Mail) is so quick to be politically correct – for example, the abuse it doles out to Jon Snow when he doesn’t wear a poppy. Surely enforced wearing of such symbols is political correctness in the extreme?
November 13th, 2010 - 10:49
“TERM ‘LAUGHING STOCK’ CHANGED TO ‘HUMOURED MEAT-FLAVOURED WATER’ IN FURTHER EVIDENCE OF PC GONE MAD”
November 13th, 2010 - 11:39
Although to be fair Rusty Lee finds it funny and laughs her head off, lol!
Still I get your point.
Grrrr isn’t it terrible you can take the piss out of Christians and little old ladies who vote Tory but grrrrr you can’t make fun out of black gay one legged lesbian asylum seeking marxists!!!
IT’S PC GONE MADDDDDDD!!!!
November 13th, 2010 - 12:42
surely it’s political correctness gone mentally different?
November 13th, 2010 - 18:41
That’s madness gone politically correct.
November 13th, 2010 - 13:31
Here’s the thing – they weren’t ‘Gingerbread People’, they were ‘Gingerbread Persons’. And only parody-strawperson-PC-police would use Persons rather than People in this context. That’s how you can tell it’s a joke.
Not a very good joke, but it’s clearly joke-shaped even if I don’t like it.
November 13th, 2010 - 14:06
I forget if I’ve mentioned this here before, but if not… A few years ago, my then-girlfriend-now-missus took me to a Car-Boot sale near where she lived, somewhere deep in the Fens. It was a regular weekly event, and she assured me I had to see it at least once.
As we arrived, I overheard something which set the tone for the day. A lumbering hulk of a man, well into his 60s, groaned increduliously in broad a Norfolk drawl “So what are we supposed to call them now? Golly-PEOPLE?”
November 13th, 2010 - 16:47
“They were clearly men – they were not wearing skirts.”
Women never wear trousers. You know those people you see in the street that look like women wearing trousers? They’re actually REALLY pretty men.
November 13th, 2010 - 18:50
somebody should complain about Femail in the Daily Mail.. person… whatever
November 13th, 2010 - 19:07
Actually, you’ve just reminded me of something else. I was watching a show a few days ago where the awesome Sarah Millican performed a stand-up gig in her old home town, and did a quick guided tour. At one point she bought an ice-cream from the kiosk she used to visit, and asked “Can I have it with Monkey-blood?” The woman serving her said “We can’t call it that any more. They said it was politically incorrect”. Sarah found this hilarious and asked how many monkeys had complained, but it was interesting (to a dullard like me) to see how the phrase ‘politically incorrect’ has become a catch-all reason for any sort of change. My guess is that someone at one point said “Nobody calls it monkey-blood any more*, so the youth of today don’t know what you’re talking about. Could you just call it sauce or syrup instead please?” and someone else somewhere along the way has decided it’s easier to blame it on PC gone mad.
* If true, this is a massive shame. I love the name monkey-blood. There was a great cartoon once in Viz set in WW2, where the Allies distracted Nazi troops with an ice-cream van, and one asks for “Ein neun-und-neunzig mit munky blut”
November 16th, 2010 - 13:55
Of course it’s considered politically incorrect – I mean, everyone associates the word ‘monkey’ with ethnic minorities, and the word can never refer to the simians found in zoos and jungles around the world, right? Wrong!
Another similar pc incorrectness: me being told off (by one of the least pc persons around) for saying a (white) colleague was ‘as much use as a chocolate teapot’ (chocolate=black person, geddit? Nothing to do with that sweet stuff that would melt if you put hot water in it).
Sigh.
November 14th, 2010 - 02:14
There was a joke? I haven’t a clue what the gingerbread joke was or why school menus had to be altered for the joke to be told.
I’m only glad they’re gingerbread men again because the original change was unnecessary, and people shouldn’t have been wasting so much time proposing or making such unnecessary alteration to the menus.
November 14th, 2010 - 10:56
Surely if one change was unnecessary, then two is twice as unnecessary? There was a joke. If you can’t see that, I pity you.
November 16th, 2010 - 09:33
i very much doubt this was a change that went through some extensive and time wasting vetting process. i know local councils are quite beuocratic, but they’re not actually”brazil” or anything. seems unlikely that making the change cost that much in time either, i know “persons” is a slightly longer word, but they didn’t have to type it individually for each menu.
November 16th, 2010 - 13:37
Surely that’s racist against Brazillians? And what has bureaucracy got to do with lady-shaving (or person-shaving)?
November 14th, 2010 - 10:41
It’s got to the point now that any change to any words anywhere is ‘PC gone mad’. Our local paper received a complaint about calling ‘The Union Jack’ ‘The Union Flag’ as PC.
November 15th, 2010 - 14:29
round here all the bakers sell Gingerbread people. Perhaps the ones in skirts are gingerbread women. Perhaps they’re gingerbread scotsmen.
November 15th, 2010 - 15:20
Just seen this after a weekend away and – Jesus Christ! I remember TV before political correctness went mad could be a bit wrong, but fucking hell!
That was considered normal for Breakfast tevevision? Jesus Christ!
November 17th, 2010 - 17:08
Oh, PC gone mad went mad a long time ago. Still, the people who get conned by these stories deserve it because they clearly want to believe it.