Monday, March 6, 2017

PC going amuck


this idea is crazy. language is not a top/down proposition. it needs to emerge from the bottom/up


proof 1: MLK's words are now (offensive?)

proof 2: "boy" and "girl" are offensive

proof 3: "freshman" is sexist

proof 4: "mothers" can be sexually offensive

proof 5: (math is offensive)

proof 6: a new sub-grammar (to avoid being offensive)

proof 7:  Schiele's art is offensive (& should be covered) 

proof 8: Balthus @ the MET is offensive

proof 9: skii slopes are masculinized (how about gravity?)

proof 10: deserves a quote (benches' handrails are hostile)
Handrails also divide the benches at Trinity Church and Jamaica Pond, and solar panels segment flashy new seats in Central Square. This is hostile architecture. These narrowly spaced partitions—like concrete spikes on highway medians and iron studs on sidewalks—exist to keep people from lying down when they have no place else to sleep. Hostile architecture is designed to repel the homeless and others who “loiter” in public spaces.
proof 11: the statement, "effort was 10 percent of the grade" in a syllabus is "sexual harassment"

the list goes on and on...

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