Let's Talk PC

Yesterday in Psych, we started talking about PC (not personal computer: Political Correctness). The debate was whether or not being PC was a good thing, and was it a form of critical thinking. I would like to start out by saying in advance that I was just sure that my Professor would argue for PC, but I was wrong. First he asked me to define PC;

PC is the acceptable form of unoffensive terminology in society.

That is the general definition. He agreed, and we went on, by the end of his debating and asking questions he had made his point. He agreed with me that PC was totally crap, but he also pointed out just how dangerous it was. It was a new way of thinking for most people in the classroom to realize that your common sense and ability to logic can be overpowered by someones else's will to have things be the way they want.

For example: Just because things should be equal for men and women does not mean that they are. To use my teachers example, just because a man chooses to do his 3 mile run between the hours of midnight and three a.m. does not make it a good idea, it does not mean that woman can't run at that time, however history shows that if a woman were to go running at that time, she much more likely to be attacked and raped, or killed than a man is. SO logically it would be a bad idea for her to go running in the early hours of the day or the late hours of the night ( however you view that time slot). But the PC people will say that it should make no difference, and therefore it makes no difference if you are a man or a woman, and that the woman should also go running, just to prove that point. The fact that she will most likely be accosted in one way or another does not matter, because she should be able to run since that is fair. Well life isn't fair, and yes that is a rather extreme example but it doesn't change the fact that PC denies the fact that life isn't fair. Making it dangerous.

Here's another point: PC is supposed to be unoffensive, so I ran a poll. Yesterday we learned what the PC terms "Wife" and "Pregnancy" are. Since those two words are obviously offensive, I asked pregnant women, married women, gay women, strait women, women who had never had children, and women who had kids but weren't pregnant at the time, divorced women, and single women, and women who were going through divorce ( a total of 50) how they would preferred to be addressed. Which way is more offensive

Wife/ x-wife(normal)
Domestically incarcerated?Domestic Incarceration Survivor (PC term)

100% said they preferred the term wife or x-wife

Pregnant(normal)
Parasitically Oppressed (PC)

100% chose pregnant

All 50 women showed signs pf outrage when the PC term was presented to them, and well let's just say calling children a parasite is a really dangerous thing and will most likely cause you physical harm.

IF PC is supposed to be unoffensive: they failed. Giving in to extreme feminist and letting people be stupid but calling it "cerebraly challenged", doesn't make someone less stupid. Telling a child they "achieved a deficiency" doesn't change the fact that they failed at something.

We need to be teaching people how to strengthen themselves not making excuses for things and leaving people the state that they are in already. People need to learn, people learn through trial and error, or through failure, these are important lessons in life and the PC age is wrong. Period.

Political Correctness has definitely Achieved a Deficiency in making sense, but that's OK, because they can always just say they are "Cerebraly Challenged"