Political Correctness
The term “Political Correct” has been in the nation’s vocabulary for only a short period of time but has changed the way that we view life and …show more content…
Phrase such as “charley horse”, “lazy Susan”, “bull market” and “Kaiser Roll” have all come under fire because they are now considered to be politically incorrect. When going to a restaurant you will no longer be using the term “Waiter” or Waitress” to address the person who serves your food since this is a complete prejudice attack on that individual, you will need to refer to that person as the “Waitron” so as not to offend. In fact all references to sexual orientation associated with any position or station life are to be removed from the words we speak and write, no longer can we use terms such as “lord” ,”king”, “master” or “ fellow” to describe a man, I’m not certain what the new words are to replaces these but I’m sure someone will catch me saying something like, “ my friend is a nice fellow” and quickly set me straight for my blatant disregard of women and society as a whole. One of the figures that Kakutani points out in her story is writer by the name of Rosalie Maggio who is a top cop in the world of the word police, she is not only against words that imply gender she also is against anything that could imply race as well. Ms. Maggio points to phrases such as “ black ball”, black eye and “black mail” and tells society these terms are wrong and are offence to African American’s, she informs us of the new …show more content…
We have a story that has completely been changed to fit the role of a political correct story which has taken every word that could ever possible be considered offensive such as lumber jack and turns it into tree butcher. The old story was simple, a lumber jack leaves his kids to because he can’t feed them, the kids meet a witch, the witch try’s to eat the kids and at the end the father comes in to save the day. In the new version by James Finn Gardner we are dealing with survivalist, Wican’s, organic remedies, lawyers, and corporate greed. This book is a great late night story for the children of the word
The term “Political Correct” has been in the nation’s vocabulary for only a short period of time but has changed the way that we view life and …show more content…
Phrase such as “charley horse”, “lazy Susan”, “bull market” and “Kaiser Roll” have all come under fire because they are now considered to be politically incorrect. When going to a restaurant you will no longer be using the term “Waiter” or Waitress” to address the person who serves your food since this is a complete prejudice attack on that individual, you will need to refer to that person as the “Waitron” so as not to offend. In fact all references to sexual orientation associated with any position or station life are to be removed from the words we speak and write, no longer can we use terms such as “lord” ,”king”, “master” or “ fellow” to describe a man, I’m not certain what the new words are to replaces these but I’m sure someone will catch me saying something like, “ my friend is a nice fellow” and quickly set me straight for my blatant disregard of women and society as a whole. One of the figures that Kakutani points out in her story is writer by the name of Rosalie Maggio who is a top cop in the world of the word police, she is not only against words that imply gender she also is against anything that could imply race as well. Ms. Maggio points to phrases such as “ black ball”, black eye and “black mail” and tells society these terms are wrong and are offence to African American’s, she informs us of the new …show more content…
We have a story that has completely been changed to fit the role of a political correct story which has taken every word that could ever possible be considered offensive such as lumber jack and turns it into tree butcher. The old story was simple, a lumber jack leaves his kids to because he can’t feed them, the kids meet a witch, the witch try’s to eat the kids and at the end the father comes in to save the day. In the new version by James Finn Gardner we are dealing with survivalist, Wican’s, organic remedies, lawyers, and corporate greed. This book is a great late night story for the children of the word