Political Correctness In Don T Rewrite The Bible

Political correctness propose the idea that we should treat each other with unbiased views. Although this is a great idea many people tend to take it too far causing a whirlwind of problems. The effects of political correctness greatly impact on the majority of the population who follow this idea .In Don’t Rewrite the Bible, Michael Golden emphasizes the role that political correctness plays in our society today. He uses an amusing tone throughout his paper giving insight into people taking feminism and political correctness too far. He uses examples of God, other religious figures, Mother Goose, storms, and hurricanes. Golden recognizes that sometimes change is good, but when a change in a religious book that has been around for ages gets brought up then it has been taken overboard. He uses paternal and maternal figures that we look up to in society and …show more content…
These extremists know no bounds and “meteorologists can no longer be accused of casting aspirations on the feminine temperament.” because of this attitude (Golden 2). Furthermore while Golden explains how religion is being impacted by society, weather is also being affected. Political correctness is deeply affecting how we name natural disasters such as hurricanes or tsunamis. Consequently in the past we named these disasters after males but a huge uproar in the feminist community lead to a drastic change of male to female names. An example of this impactful movement is hurricane Katrina which disastrously ruined people’s homes and lives. I witness this severe epidemic of gender neutral speech every day when I turn on the television. Just as natural disasters are being castrated so are people in our daily lives, look at TLC they have shown episodes defining a trans-gender or a neutral gender. Political correctness effects our social lives as well as our daily