Gideon MacLeish Gideon MacLeish

I reserve the right to use these non-PC Terms

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I reserve the right to use these non-PC Terms

or, "when is a hermaphrodite NOT a hermaphrodite?"

from JoeUser Forums

Another blogger's thread was hijacked by a reader taking offense to the use of the word "hermaphrodite". Personally, I'm among the growing number of Americans who are becoming pissed by the "PC police" changing terms that were once acceptable just so they can brand the rest of us as being bigots because we didn't get the latest copy of "liberals weekly". To whit, I am reserving my right to continue to use the following terms:

  • hermaphrodites
  • retards
  • freaks
  • Indians
  • generic references to "mankind" with the gender specific pronoun "he"
  • idiots
  • morons
  • transsexuals
  • queers
  • midgets
  • dwarfs
  • handicapped
  • perverts
  • pollacks
  • airheads
  • more as I think of them

What about you, JU? Please feel free to list all the non-PC terms you reserve the right to retain.

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
"intersexed".


The term "Intersexed" doesn't even make sense, since one type of hemaphrodite has neither the organs nor the hormones consistent with either sex. They are not "between" sexes, they are completely Asexual.

Of course, people who coin PC terms never expected them to make sense, they only use them in childish "us vs. them" worldplay games.
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top

stupid - not learning disabled, stupid is stupid ok?

The learning disabled are not stupid.  PHDs can be stupid and often are.

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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top

Besides, since mankind originated in the Great Rift Valley, in East Africa, everyone's African-(insert country of current residence here). (Insert generic Dave Chappellian comment that I'm probably too afraid to type on account of my light skin here)

Oohhhh! Great one!  That gets you a cookie!

Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top

2. Jack-booted nazi thug: My favorite term for describing uber righties. (NOTE: Mod, Guy, Miler do not fall into this catagory folks) Think Anne Coulter or Dick Cheney.

Well, I appreciate the qualifier, but I will respectfully disagree with your examples. I instead counter propose Michael Savage and Jerry Falwell.

Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top

but at least you arent Welsh, so thats something, lol.

I knew a Welshman once.  I called him an Englishman one time by mistake.  I woke up in the Hospital 3 days later!

Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top

That goes for Newfie jokes too

You guys are brutal on Newfies!  I have seen some of the jokes!  Take the worst Redneck, Blond, Polish, and Italian Jokes, multiply by 10, and you have Newfie jokes!

Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top
I knew a Welshman once. I called him an Englishman one time by mistake. I woke up in the Hospital 3 days later!


This English~Irish~Welsh~Scot~American resents that and is glad his (kind of) countryman put you in your place!! ;~D
Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top

This English~Irish~Welsh~Scot~American resents that and is glad his (kind of) countryman put you in your place!! ;~D

The English part for daring to upgrade him? Or the Welsh part for downgrading him?

Reply #34 from JoeUser Forums Top
PHDs can be stupid and often are.

Definately agree with you there. Met more than a couple.
Reply #35 from JoeUser Forums Top
And yes,in fact,people try to stop the use of these terms. This whole thing started when someone went on another person's thread taking offense to the use of the word "hermaphrodite" as opposed to "intersexed". The point of this article is that PC has gone off the deep end, and I'm sure pretty much everyone's in agreement on this.'

Point taken Gideon. Attempting to limit use of the language is surely unhealthy, as George Orwell attempted to illustrate in '1984'. But surely there's a difference between 'trying to stop' and 'attempting to dissuade'? eg. While I wouldn't support legislation against you using any of the words listed, don't I have a right to tell you that I find them offensive, and why?
Reply #36 from JoeUser Forums Top
wtf is wrong with the word hermaphrodite? Sure, maybe there's no harm in trying to make people say "intersexed", but there was no harm in the word hermaphrodite to begin with.

Such attitudes make people wary of calling somthing by its true name; which often leaves us with "freedom fighters" instead of "terrorists", and worse...
Reply #37 from JoeUser Forums Top

And yes,in fact,people try to stop the use of these terms. This whole thing started when someone went on another person's thread taking offense to the use of the word "hermaphrodite" as opposed to "intersexed". The point of this article is that PC has gone off the deep end, and I'm sure pretty much everyone's in agreement on this.'

I missed that comment, which is just as good. I have never heard of the term intersexed.  Sounds like something you do to a baby chick when culling the males from the females!

Reply #38 from JoeUser Forums Top

don't I have a right to tell you that I find them offensive, and why?

Absolutely. As I have the right to keep using them (although, in all honesty I wouldn't use them in regular usage if I knew they truly pissed someone off who wasn't oversensitive).

I mentioned my sis-in-law in an earlier blog. She goes off the deep end enytime someone uses the word "man" for "mankind" or male pronouns identifying a nonspecific person. As much as my usage of those terms offends her, her "watchdogging" my language offends me.

Reply #39 from JoeUser Forums Top

I mentioned my sis-in-law in an earlier blog. She goes off the deep end enytime someone uses the word "man" for "mankind" or male pronouns identifying a nonspecific person. As much as my usage of those terms offends her, her "watchdogging" my language offends me.

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