Politically Correct

I am not sure about any of you, but I know I am just about sick and tired of all this politically correct bullshit. Being PC is one thing when it comes to ones interactions with other people, but when it affects our children, I think its a bit ridiculous. Whatever happened to us being the land of the free and home of the brave? All it seems to me as of late, is that we are becoming the home of the pansies. Seriously?  

For those of you that have no idea what I am talking about, please feel free to read more. 

I am to a point in which I think all of this political correctness has really become overobsessed and over analyzed. I mean seriously, does someone get paid to sit behind a desk and make a decision as to what phrase or phrases offend someone? If so, why is it that it changes so much? I mean one time you can say Mexican, then another its Hispanic, then its Mexican American, then its Latinos…I mean I happen to be a member of this vast community, yet I have no idea what I am to check off on an application anymore. Which is it? It changes so often I think I have lost my identity and have  no idea what I am referred to anymore, except for the all encompassing and most correct one….An intellectual human being residing in the land of the United States of America. It gets to the point where the new PC terms end up losing its meaning of the original word, phrase, or meaning…it loses its spice and kick. Have we all forget the age old saying we were taught as children? “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never harm me!” Have we become a lame nation of couch potatoes that are a bunch of big crying babies, have we become a nation of pussies? 

I don’t believe in all of this PC crap. I live in America and I love to express my rights that have been given to me as a citizen of this country. If people don’t like it, then they can lump it, or better yet, go to another nation and whine and cry all they want over there. This is American where we are home of the brave, the land of the free, and the only superpower really left standing. Did we become this way by having everyone else’s cry babies come to this land? Hell no. We became this way by all the smartest, strongest, most intelligent people of way back when deciding to come to this land and make it the best damn place in the world to reside. We left all the wussies that were afraid to speak up, to petition, to assembly, to have taxation only with proper representation…and came here. How else did we defeat all of those great numbers of way back when? Because we had all of their best, we had all of the strong and smart ones…we left all the pansies behind. Has England or Britain ever won a war without our backing? Hell no. That’s right bitches, I said it and you know it. 

1. Pinata’s: I was at Walmart to day and came across the party aisle and saw some pinata’s. At first glance it brought me back to my childhood and how much fun it was to smack the living shit out of something and then being rewarded for it. I took a closer look and low and behold they now have pull strings on them. What the fuck? Are you kidding me. Seriously. These things must be made in China now, because I know if little Consuela in Mexico has anything to say about, she is not going to be happy not being able to beat the shit out of something in order to get candy. So I ask one of the clerks, what’s with the defective pinatas? “Sir, those are made with pulls so they do not promote violence in our children.” What? Are you trying to tell me that the reason why Jethro beats the shit out of his wife is because as a child he had a pinata? F that. Its no right. Its not American. Give me a bat and candy man.

2. Toy Guns: Has anyone else noticed that you can not find a good toy gun to save your life. (Excuse the oxymoron of that, but you know what I am getting at.) I went into the toy aisle and there was nothing to be found except for this orange piece of plastic that didn’t even shoot caps. I remember having machine guns, cap guns, realistic looking pieces of metal that resembled dirty harry’s 44 magnum, GI Joe’s bazooka, the lone rangers silver pistol. You know why kids are pissed off and playing with real ones? That’s right. Because you are taking away all of the fun from them as a child in playing with toy guns. Then again, when I was small we could play cowboys and indians. Now a days, kids would have to play, Cattle People and Indigenous People. Where is the fun in that?

3. The Department of Defense: Did you know it used to be called the War Department. Does the government really think that we are dumb enough to think that just because the retitled it the Department of Defense that we will only use our military to defend ourselves? Hell no. I think the last couple of years have shown us exactly that. Instead of defending ourselves, we have been on the offensive and gone to war. I mean I do agree that the new name sounds less hostile, but I really think the original one fits the best, especially with the king Dee Dee Dee in the White House.

4. Differently abled or handi-capable. What the hell are you talking about? Are you retarded? Oh wait, I forgot, its not retarded anymore, its mentally challenged. Oh wait, this just in, it changed once again to mentally handi-capable. Capable of what? Voting for the king of the retards? Seriously. With all of the new terminology that refers to retarded people, everyone now has their own subspecialty, what ever happened to lumping them all into one big pot and letting them all melt together? I have a very good friend that happens to be handicapped. I asked him about all of this and he says that he never has a problem with anyone referring to him as handicapped, disabled, or paralyzed. In fact he said to me, Why would I have issues with it, its the truth. I am. He went on to say that he doesn’t really like the word hanidcap, but not because it is harsh or offensive, but because it reminds him too much of golf. He even added some jest to me and said, I am definitely not “differently-abled” until I perfect my telekinetic powers.

5. Government Names for missals and other things:  Like the peacekeeper or the patriot missels. I find it kind of ironic that we use a term peacekeeper in reference to something that that is an instrument of war. Or that we call it a patriot missel when it can not always tell the difference between friend or foe, or even our own aircraft’s for that matter. Look at the term we used to give to veterans that experienced some psychological traumas in the war. In World War 1 it was referred to as being “shell shocked.” Then in World War 2 it became known as “battle fatigue.” Then in the Vietnam War it became known as “post-traumatic stress disorder.” Huh? How the hell does that even relate or refer to what is really ailing the vet? I think we should go back to ’shell shocked’ since that really nails it on the head as what the real issues are. I will have to go back to the famous words of George Carlin, “Maybe if the term had stayed ’shell-shocked’ more of the Vietnam soldiers would have gotten the proper medical attention that they needed.”

6. Sexual terms: We are a country obsessed with sex and sexuality, yet we use terms such as messed around,fooled around, or hooked up rather then using the real terms that depict and really get to the heart of what we did, have done, or want to do. Why cant we say, “he had a one stand, I was just looking for sex, we fu@#ed, or I made love to her with wild abandonment?” Why is it that we use all of these other terms to discretely hide what we really mean, yet everyone knows how to read between the lines and know what we are really getting at…I want to start a movement, lets be real and say what it really is. If you F’s like rabbits, then be proud and say it. 

7. Fired: Now a days people do not get fired (with the exception of the Donald and his ever so popular apprentice.) Now everyone is either downsized, let go, had a difference of opinion, or received a pink slip. Lets just say what really happened: you were fired, canned, or given the axe. Same thing with unemployed people. The U.S. does not have unemployed workers anymore, no now we have displaced workers. What? Displaced to where…Mexico, China, Beirut, Hong Kong, India. Or do you mean that they were placed in their arm chairs at home to suck on some brews, collect a check, and b!tch about what’s wrong and not willing to get up and do anything about it. Do any of the above mentioned terms or phrases take away the pain or knowledge of not being able to collect a full pay check, or that you no longer have income? I doubt it. Don’t forget though, if you are fired you can get paid to sit at home;)

8. Administrative Assittant’s Days: What the hell is that? You mean Secretaries Day? You have got to be kidding me. I mean I’m all for the correct titles of people for the work that they do and the position you hold, but does a name change really make your job description any different? I mean its still the same stinky pay, the same hours, the same job duties, and you don’t move up at all on the rungs of the ladder. If you ask anyone to describe the duties of the position, I am willing to bet that 90% of people will say, you know all the secretarial duties. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH, what the hell are you doing. you are changing the name, but yet the name doesn’t describe the work. How confusing is that? What is up with that? This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. 

Regardless of all of our different backgrounds and political views, or our beliefs about the effectiveness of politically correct language, this one thing holds true: all of these phrases are used as a social gloss. They are all words and phrases used in order to either not address as issue, or pretend there was never an issue to begin with. It is my opinion (let me remind you I said my opinion) that the value of free speech is the ability to be direct in that speech, and not have to fill it with superfluous language. But then again, when speech is free, words can be cheap….and who am I to tell you how to spend them???? 

Let me digress on to another topic really quickly. America is lowering their standards as well. Ugh! For instance, Brittney Spears. I hope to God that the rumors are wrong, or just that, rumors, and that she is not really pregnant again. I mean seriously, how does one accidentally drop their child onto their head? If she has another one, what is she going to say, “Opps I did it again?” Am I the only one that finds irony in this. Think about it. In the U.S. we have to take a written test in order to prove that we can operate a motor vehicle. Then once we pass this written test, we have to then go out onto the road and take another practical test to prove that we can actually drive and operate a vehicle correctly and safely. Yet we can intermingle and spread our legs with one another and produce a baby with no testing, no limits, and no education. I think that we need to create a test in order for people to have children. Seriously. Come on people. Why the heck do we think that China and Japan have gotten ahead of us academically? Because they make sure their gene pool is continually striving to be better. I think that part of the real issue in America is that we don’t test people before we say that they can be married or more importantly, that they can reproduce. I think that there should be no way in hell that two people that are “C” students should be able to have offspring together. I think that if you got “C’s” in school that you should have to have children with someone that got “A’s.” Then you at least would have a shot at having a “B” student for a child. And there is no way on Gods green earth that a male that got all “D’s” and a woman that got all “D’s” should be able to have offspring…we all know what D+D=DeeDeeDee’s. In lay terms, that would be the worse kind of retard, you know like the one sitting in office, Mr. GDub!! This explains how he got into office now. Think about it, if we continue to allow this to happen, think of who could end up in office and running the nation. Yikes, scary thought. 

Think about this the next time you eat your cereal, did you know that in all wheat products that the FDA allows 1mg of Rat Poop for every 1Kg of wheat products? The last time you bit into that raisin and thought, this doesn’t taste like a raisin, now you know why! Black Eyed Peas is allowed 1mg of larvae for every 1Kg of Peas. Not only is this fact disgusting, but think about this….there is probably some lame brain child from two parents of D average, that never graduated high school and is checking the food. He is probably not even checking it because he thinks that it “doesn’t apply to us.” Why? Because we only use pounds and ounces in America, the milligrams and kilograms are for those other countries!! 

“You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.”