egafd.com

True, jj. Anyone can make mistakes when acceptable terms are constantly changing and I doubt many reasonable folk would judge them too harshly.

For instance, it's inappropriate to term disabled people as 'the disabled'. It's 'disabled people'. Working with disabled people in the future I'll have to learn to keep up with these changes! I do think it's nit-picking in this instance, though, and part of me does feel offended that I'm being dictated to in some way. I suppose a lot of people feel similarly and that is the problem. People see political correctness as snotty and interfering and I suppose that's a problem political correctness has to deal with.

That's why I likened it to politeness. People like to be seen to be polite and so I feel you'd get more people on side if they viewed it as common courtesy rather than political correctness. Political correctness gives out an impression of some omnipotent body that judges everything you say, and people will naturally rebel against that.

There is, however, a difference in slipping up, or being slightly aggrieved about being asked to use accepted, appropriate terminology, and being an angry, arrogant child because you can't call them coloureds and benders any more.

As for you being upset at not being able to use 'gay' to mean happy or jolly any more: I say use it! That definition is still correct and because language is dictated by common usage then the more you use it the more the younger generations will know gay has alternate meanings.

I feel in a gay mood after getting that off my chest and I wish you the gayest of weekends! !happy!

Ignore omnipotent, I meant omnipresent!

Coloured????

When white people get hot or embarassed, they turn red,

When they are cold or die they turn blue.

....And you call us coloured????

Black people prefer to be called black. Coloured could mean any colour.

Is white not a colour too?

Btw I have no problem with whiteys.

In the 1960s, negroes considered the word 'black' to be offensive, and preferred 'coloured' instead, especially in America, where they strongly disliked being referred to as 'black'.

So, we get used to referring to them as 'coloured', then they change their minds.

Some might suspect that they are simply trying to provoke confrontation.

Dick Moby wrote:

> I?m a middle aged bloke who realises that unless I win the
> lottery I will never get a chance to couple with any beautiful
> young woman again. I watch porn and try to put myself in the
> place of the male performer and have to be content with that.

planeterotica wrote:

Well im knocking on in years but whenever i see an attractive girl and given the chance i will have a go at chatting her up and sometimes i do get lucky, i dont think its a case that when you get older you are more confident i think that you just have less fear of rejection and i still get plenty of that, and as for watching porn and putting yourself in the place of the male performer well i managed to make that a reality and you dont need to win the lottery to do so, i could easily be this guy in the clip below !wink!
[img]http://galleries.payserve.com/1/35803/27742/thumbs/90x120.jpg[/img]

I agree with what you're saying but the place I work now has a policy where they must employ a number of female/ gay/none white/disabled people.This is only fair but in a situation where it comes down to two people and one job and one applicant happens to be female/gay/non white/disabled and the quota is short for these types who do you think will get the job ?
It can be a physically demanding job so to be fair that should rule out 99.9%
of the female and disabled community but so far one woman has been given a job and she can't hack it.She's been given the same training as me so I know all about manual handling issues and the like but she relies on her male counterparts to do some of her work and bail her out which puts us behind.

Some people are just jammy b******s but I'm afraid my talents don't lie in that direction. I think my willy would be a bit camera shy so it might not rise to the occasion.