Tuesday, November 28

Politically Correct Terms

Out with the old, in with the new. If we're going to be so "civilised" that we start calling sexual offenders "guys who were wrongly seduced by suggestive behaviours and fashion sense of the female victims", we might as well start renaming the whole world to make it sound more Alice in Wonderland-ish.
For starters, the terms "big boned" and "heavy-set frame" is soooo cliche~. Instead, I suggest we use more sweet and delicate, albeit longer terms like "individual with a higher body mass than what society perceives as average" or maybe "individual with an excess amount of cells / adipose tissue". In fact, I'll give a pass to "personnel with an unmentionable body mass profile".
You see, the whole thing about being politically correct is to spin a million rounds and beat about the bushes as much as possible on an issue which you can actually settle with a single word, like in the case above by simply saying "fat", would become much much longer, complicated and harder to understand.
I also suggest in order to not offend Mother Nature, we shall stop calling this planet we live on as "Earth" because lets face it, there's more water visible on the surface than earth / soil / humus. Maybe we should rename it as "Warth", a combination of water and earth. Or we can just stick to the age-old saying of "3rd rock from the sun" although technically this isn't really a rock. More like a "third large entity from the sun that is classified as a planet in the Milky Way" or "the largest solid body in the Solar System".
And I believe we should revise the usage of the word "chicken" cause lately, it seems to be synonymous to cowardly. So we either stop calling "individuals with a lower bravery level" "chickens" or we stop calling chickens "chickens".
And in my mind, "chicken" somehow reminds me of SARS or am I just being discriminatory?

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