In your own words what does 'Politically Correct Speech' mean?

Being politically correct to me means trying not to offend anyone with what you say, but to a stupid degree.

 

Take the story of the 3 little pigs. We all know it. But if it was politically correct, it would go something like this .........

 

Once there were three little pigs who lived together in mutual respect with their environment. Using materials that were indigenous to their area, they each built a beautiful house. One pig built a house of straw, one a house of sticks, and one a house of dung, clay and creeper vines shaped into bricks and baked in a small kiln. When they finished, the pigs were satisfied with their work and settled back to live in peace and self-determination.

 

But their idyll was soon shattered. One day, along came a big, bad wolf with expansionist ideas. He saw the pigs and grew very hungry, in both a physical and ideological sense. When the pigs saw the wolf, they ran into the house of straw. The wolf ran up to the house and banged on the door, shouting, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!"

 

The pigs shuted back, "Your gunboat tactics hold no fear for pigs defending their homes and culture"

 

Bu the wolf was not to be denied what he thought was his manifest destiny. So he huffed and puffed and blew down the house of straw. The frightened pigs ran to the house of sticks, with the wolf in pursuit. Where the house of straw had stood, other wolves bought up the land and started a banana plantation.

 

At the house of sticks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!"

 

The pigs shouted back "Go to ***, you carnivorous, imperialistic oppressor!"

 

At this the wolf chulcked condescendingly. He thought to himself: "They are so childlike in their ways. It will be a shame to see them go, but progress cannot be stopped."

 

So the wolf huffed and pueffed and blew down the house of sticks. The pigs ran to the house of bricks, with the wolf close at their heels. Where the house of sticks had stood, other wolves built a time-share resort complex for holidaying wolves, with each unit a fibreglass construction of the house of sticks, as well as native curio shops, snorkelling and dolphin shows.

 

At the house of bricks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!"

 

This time in reponse the pigs sang songs of solidarity and wrote letters of protest to the United Nations.

 

By now the wolf was getting angry at the pigs' refusal to see the situation from the canivores point of view. So he huffed and puffed, and huffed and puffed, then grabbed his chest and fell over dead from a massive heart attack brought on from eating too many fatty foods.

 

The three little pigs rejoiced that justice had triumphed and did a little dance around the corpse of the wolf. Their next step was to liberate their homeland. They gathered together a band of other pigs who has been forced off their lands. This new brigrade of porcinistas attacked the resort complex with machine guns and rocket launchers and slaughtered the cruel wolf oppressors, sending a clear signal to the rest of the hemisphere not to meddle in internal affairs. The the pigs set up a model of socialist democracy with free education, universal health care and affordable housing for everyone.

 

Please note: The wolf in this story was a metaphorical construction. No actual wolves were harmed in the writing of this story.

 

See now, politically correct nursery rhymes are just stupid, as are most "politically correct" things in society. We are so afraid of "stepping on the toes" of another person in society, we speak in riddles, eventually produce noise pollution statements that are at a superficial depth and are essentially meaningless.

Pretty much, you and any company/politician have to be careful what you say, so that a whole band of insulted people don't come marching up your footpath in protest of you hurting their feelings.

People get insulted very easily these days. Everyone seems to think they are as important or more so than anybody else, so therefore should not have their ego insulted. These people are boring. I like people who are not politically correct, they are funny, they say it like they see it.

 

I like your story Dave, it was funny. I want to go see the wolf dolphin show

Edited September 4, 200816 yr by Sailorwolf

I will post other stories later