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Are there any policially correct (PC) terms you actually agree with?

I wish I liked seafood! My husband and kids adore shellfish and as you can imagine, we have the best of the best of the best up here. I don't think you can get great seafood in Deer Park so I understand. But I can't abide the stuff.

I like reading that you use "Ma'am". My sons do as well. It's the polite and decent thing to do. Don't change! Haters will be haters.

Your husband and I have something in common. Seafood is delicious.
 
I wish I knew. I do love to watch them eat lobsters, crabs, oysters, etc. but wild horses couldn't make me touch the stuff.

Weird thing is, I used to be afraid of seafood. Like, I remember being afraid to get the meat out of crawfish, so I'd make my dad do it for me. But now, I have no problem whatsoever.
 
I am asking the membership if there may be some politically correct (PC) terms you might actually agree with using. I have scores I think are completely foolish and goofy, but there are three I happen to agree with totally. Here they are for your discussion and / or...."disagreement".

1. NOT calling grown women "girls". I learned this early when I first started working in the hospitality industry. Girls are children, and grown-up females are women. Call them otherwise to your peril.

2. Use "they" rather than HE when discussing general individuals. A state inspector was going through my hotel once when i managed it and I had not seen HIM start the inspection, but asked the clerk when did she think HE would be through with it. Down the hall came the inspector and THEY were not a HE, but a SHE. Don't tell me that little screw up of mine did not earn us a few hits on the inspection.
I should have asked the clerk when did THEY say THEY would be done. Much safer and covers all bases.

3. Native American. Technically accurate even if they came over to North America via a land bridge or whatever. They were still here first. To me, that makes them indigenous peoples.

Do you have any you can enlighten us with that seem fine to use in normal conversation with others?
There are others that are so completely wrong I will not list them and no one but politicians and those on TV use. The rest of us don't.

For the most part very few "PC" terms bother me i guess. Most i can even think of off the top of my head are all fine "when used in the right setting" . .thats whats key . . .so im just not sensitive enough to really be bothered by them.

some people dont curse at all, some people never take the lords name in vain, many people talk different in front of thier grandmother or priest or at a job interview than you talk to your friends at the bar or in your own home. These are all versions of PC actions. Why judge one so harshly and not others? Its mostly relative and doesn't matter to me. Like I said the right setting, the issue some people have is when they demand others use thier usage at all times or declare its the only right way or when some people are so bothered by others using something so called PC . . .different sides of the same coin, just people not getting thier way :shrug:
 
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I wish I liked seafood! My husband and kids adore shellfish and as you can imagine, we have the best of the best of the best up here. I don't think you can get great seafood in Deer Park so I understand. But I can't abide the stuff.

I like reading that you use "Ma'am". My sons do as well. It's the polite and decent thing to do. Don't change! Haters will be haters.

Your husband and I have something in common. Seafood is delicious.

Down here on the Texas gulf coast our forte' is fantail shrimp, oysters and redfish.
While really good, I personally feel the Cod, Shrod, lobster, clams, scallops, and what-not are just a little bit better up there.

...and yes, just let the haters hate. The rest of us have more polite things to do.
 
Weird thing is, I used to be afraid of seafood. Like, I remember being afraid to get the meat out of crawfish, so I'd make my dad do it for me. But now, I have no problem whatsoever.

...suck the head and bite the tail...
(as some of my Cajun friends say)
I am of Sicilian decent, so there was a learning curve.
 
...suck the head and bite the tail...

Yup. I used not wanna do that, because stupid me was scared it was gonna come back alive in my mouth. I do that with gusto now. :)

In fact, the only thing that I hate about crawfish now is that you get so little meat from it.
 
Yup. I used not wanna do that, because stupid me was scared it was gonna come back alive in my mouth. I do that with gusto now. :)

In fact, the only thing that I hate about crawfish now is that you get so little meat from it.

That's why they always throw in the corn and red potatoes with them.....filler.
 
I am asking the membership if there may be some politically correct (PC) terms you might actually agree with using. I have scores I think are completely foolish and goofy, but there are three I happen to agree with totally. Here they are for your discussion and / or...."disagreement".

1. NOT calling grown women "girls". I learned this early when I first started working in the hospitality industry. Girls are children, and grown-up females are women. Call them otherwise to your peril.

2. Use "they" rather than HE when discussing general individuals. A state inspector was going through my hotel once when i managed it and I had not seen HIM start the inspection, but asked the clerk when did she think HE would be through with it. Down the hall came the inspector and THEY were not a HE, but a SHE. Don't tell me that little screw up of mine did not earn us a few hits on the inspection.
I should have asked the clerk when did THEY say THEY would be done. Much safer and covers all bases.

3. Native American. Technically accurate even if they came over to North America via a land bridge or whatever. They were still here first. To me, that makes them indigenous peoples.

Do you have any you can enlighten us with that seem fine to use in normal conversation with others?
There are others that are so completely wrong I will not list them and no one but politicians and those on TV use. The rest of us don't.

One thing I learned in 3rd grade is they is plural. I don't see how using they as a single pronoun is ever correct. Neither for that matter is calling yourself by names you wouldn't want to be called. Girls is one of those. It's fairly common use by us girls on a lunch date. Queer and n***r also fall in that category. Don't like it, don't use it.

I don't particularly like making up names and then demanding I use the term to describe you. Gay is just one of those. In Richmond there are two Gay streets and one Gay subdivision. Neither has anything to do with Gay people.
 
I am asking the membership if there may be some politically correct (PC) terms you might actually agree with using. I have scores I think are completely foolish and goofy, but there are three I happen to agree with totally. Here they are for your discussion and / or...."disagreement".

1. NOT calling grown women "girls". I learned this early when I first started working in the hospitality industry. Girls are children, and grown-up females are women. Call them otherwise to your peril.

2. Use "they" rather than HE when discussing general individuals. A state inspector was going through my hotel once when i managed it and I had not seen HIM start the inspection, but asked the clerk when did she think HE would be through with it. Down the hall came the inspector and THEY were not a HE, but a SHE. Don't tell me that little screw up of mine did not earn us a few hits on the inspection.
I should have asked the clerk when did THEY say THEY would be done. Much safer and covers all bases.

3. Native American. Technically accurate even if they came over to North America via a land bridge or whatever. They were still here first. To me, that makes them indigenous peoples.

Do you have any you can enlighten us with that seem fine to use in normal conversation with others?
There are others that are so completely wrong I will not list them and no one but politicians and those on TV use. The rest of us don't.

'Native American' might not be correvt, if it is to mean more than 'born in the USA'. It appears there were Homo hunters mashing masterdon bones 100.000 years earlier than the arrival of what is now called Native Americans' ancestors.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scie...ity-north-america-130000-years-ago-180963046/
 
For the most part very few "PC" terms bother me i guess. Most i can even think of off the top of my head are all fine "when used in the right setting" . .thats whats key . . .so im just not sensitive enough to really be bothered by them.

some people dont curse at all, some people never take the lords name in vain, many people talk different in front of thier grandmother or priest or at a job interview than you talk to your friends at the bar or in your own home. These are all versions of PC actions. Why judge one so harshly and not others? Its mostly relative and doesn't matter to me. Like I said the right setting, the issue some people have is when they demand others use thier usage at all times or declare its the only right way or when some people are so bothered by others using something so called PC . . .different sides of the same coin, just people not getting thier way :shrug:

I think it more difficult on terms of free expression having to avoid using expressions that are not PC.
 
I am asking the membership if there may be some politically correct (PC) terms you might actually agree with using. I have scores I think are completely foolish and goofy, but there are three I happen to agree with totally. Here they are for your discussion and / or...."disagreement".

1. NOT calling grown women "girls". I learned this early when I first started working in the hospitality industry. Girls are children, and grown-up females are women. Call them otherwise to your peril.

2. Use "they" rather than HE when discussing general individuals. A state inspector was going through my hotel once when i managed it and I had not seen HIM start the inspection, but asked the clerk when did she think HE would be through with it. Down the hall came the inspector and THEY were not a HE, but a SHE. Don't tell me that little screw up of mine did not earn us a few hits on the inspection.
I should have asked the clerk when did THEY say THEY would be done. Much safer and covers all bases.

3. Native American. Technically accurate even if they came over to North America via a land bridge or whatever. They were still here first. To me, that makes them indigenous peoples.

Do you have any you can enlighten us with that seem fine to use in normal conversation with others?
There are others that are so completely wrong I will not list them and no one but politicians and those on TV use. The rest of us don't.

I do think that americans of African Decent is a poor chioce of PC language. It discriminates racially against Blacks from India and as a description of an Ethnicity it falls down by discriminating against recently immigrated Africans, who as a group show quite different performance characteristics.
 
SIDENOTE: I got my hiney reamed by a woman in Philly once by calling her Ma'am. Sorry, darlin', I am from Texas and that is just how we are. No insult intended.

Some folks walk around just looking for something to get offended over.

They do!

And to this day, "Yes, ma'am" and "No, sir" are automatic if the person with whom you're dealing is older.

I'm so happy to live in a community in which so many people open or hold doors for others. Gentlemen hold doors for ladies and younger folks for older ones, but really it's--for those who are courteous at all, I mean--an easy courtesy for just about anybody.
 
Yes. Only use 'African American' if you habitually say 'European American' for 'white' US citizens.

Other than “Native American” I think those types of terms are useless. They make as assumptiin about a person’s citizenship and are useless in describing people who aren’t American.

One thing I find interesting is we refer to people whose ancestors came from Asia as “Asian” all the time. “That Asian guy over there is in my class”. Even if the person has never visited Asia. It just describes a general ethnicity. Yet we rarely refer to white and black people as “European” or “African”. If you refer to a white European as “European” you will probably get a strange look. If you refer to a black American as just “African” you might actually offend someone. But “Asian” is perfectly fine.
 
I am asking the membership if there may be some politically correct (PC) terms you might actually agree with using. I have scores I think are completely foolish and goofy, but there are three I happen to agree with totally. Here they are for your discussion and / or...."disagreement".

1. NOT calling grown women "girls". I learned this early when I first started working in the hospitality industry. Girls are children, and grown-up females are women. Call them otherwise to your peril.

2. Use "they" rather than HE when discussing general individuals. A state inspector was going through my hotel once when i managed it and I had not seen HIM start the inspection, but asked the clerk when did she think HE would be through with it. Down the hall came the inspector and THEY were not a HE, but a SHE. Don't tell me that little screw up of mine did not earn us a few hits on the inspection.
I should have asked the clerk when did THEY say THEY would be done. Much safer and covers all bases.

3. Native American. Technically accurate even if they came over to North America via a land bridge or whatever. They were still here first. To me, that makes them indigenous peoples.

Do you have any you can enlighten us with that seem fine to use in normal conversation with others?
There are others that are so completely wrong I will not list them and no one but politicians and those on TV use. The rest of us don't.

The unknown gender "problem", addressed in #2, is easily avoided by referring to the person's title, function or profession - simply using a noun rather than a pronoun.
 
I think it more difficult on terms of free expression having to avoid using expressions that are not PC.

Again that would be your issue im guessing. What do YOU have to avoid and why?
 
Not calling myself an "American" when I'm in Central or South America. They are also Americans. "North American" is generally okay, or just saying I'm from the USA.
 
Other than “Native American” I think those types of terms are useless. They make as assumptiin about a person’s citizenship and are useless in describing people who aren’t American.

One thing I find interesting is we refer to people whose ancestors came from Asia as “Asian” all the time. “That Asian guy over there is in my class”. Even if the person has never visited Asia. It just describes a general ethnicity. Yet we rarely refer to white and black people as “European” or “African”. If you refer to a white European as “European” you will probably get a strange look. If you refer to a black American as just “African” you might actually offend someone. But “Asian” is perfectly fine.

Everyone is an individual, that should be more important than any label or title. What's PC? That depends on the sensitivity of the person or group of people you are addressing, and the circumstances you are in.
I recall an episode of 'Survivor'. The gay guy sits at camp and greets the others (men and women) with "hi bitches". 'twas supposed to be cool. No one addressed it further.
We also just recently discussed a topic where the author called herself queer. Song lyrics reflect a lot of non PC terms. I guess we'll eventually find out what people are most comfortable with. Disabled, Black, this or that descent, it all has changed over the years and probably will again. We'll have to keep up. Being respectful and applying the golden rule, that works for me.
What bothers me is being addressed as hon or dear by some cashier or waitress. Referring to women as girls is another, but life goes on.
I am babbling, sorry.
 
Again that would be your issue im guessing. What do YOU have to avoid and why?

Nope. Not my issue. An issue of persons with odd opinions not being allowed to state their opinions means that they don't put their opiniins up for discussion leaving them to fester in the underground. This has happened in places like areas of Europe, in Turkey or Iran.

In the USA it was less a problem, but has become one in recent years. Trump's election was partially due to this backlash.
 
Nope. Not my issue. An issue of persons with odd opinions not being allowed to state their opinions means that they don't put their opiniins up for discussion leaving them to fester in the underground. This has happened in places like areas of Europe, in Turkey or Iran.

In the USA it was less a problem, but has become one in recent years. Trump's election was partially due to this backlash.

in this country its definitively YOUR issue :shrug:
What do YOU have to avoid and why?
 
Other than “Native American” I think those types of terms are useless. They make as assumptiin about a person’s citizenship and are useless in describing people who aren’t American.

One thing I find interesting is we refer to people whose ancestors came from Asia as “Asian” all the time. “That Asian guy over there is in my class”. Even if the person has never visited Asia. It just describes a general ethnicity. Yet we rarely refer to white and black people as “European” or “African”. If you refer to a white European as “European” you will probably get a strange look. If you refer to a black American as just “African” you might actually offend someone. But “Asian” is perfectly fine.

The Eurocrats have tried to highjack 'European' as the equivalent of 'someone who lives in an EU member state'. Which of course it is not.

'African', to make even slight sense, must be divided into 'North African' and the clumsy 'Sub Saharan African'. While 'Asian' embraces such a multitude of ethnicities as to be entirely useless.
 
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