grey00owl wrote:Political correctness is a school of thought preventing people to call the things by their name in order to not possibly offend other people, mostly part of minorities or discriminated groups, but also in a more vast, general sense.
Therefore you cannot call a blind person blind, but have to say not seeing, as well as have to call a disabled person differently abled.
You will also avoid terms like mulatto, but say instead multiethnic. And for sure you can't call a crooked nose a crooked nose, and a misaligned tooth a misaligned tooth, or at least you can't do it in porn forum.
It's hypocritical and ridiculous and has nothing to do with real respect.
I totally agree with you.
and this can be applied in all fields.
A trivial, but significant example, a videogame set in the medieval ages, in the cities there were only Caucasian people, people came to accuse of racism! What have they done? They added people of color, even if it had nothing to do with the setting.
Hey, why can't I have a romance with a man? Maybe because the character is straight? Homophobes! And so on....
So yes, with politically correct at any cost you can fall into ridicule.