Sophoclees, I fully agree with you.What really got me going with the whole PC thing was that everything got sanitized; as if changing the term used for something somehow made it less unpleasant.

Take mental illness for example. "Emotionally challenged" is a prime example of PCspeak if I may coin a word. It's use doesn't change a danm thing for the mentally ill. To us it's just another way of shoving a very real stigma under the rug. Yes,US. I have a mental illness. It is controllable with drugs and therapy. I won't go into gory details.I fight for acceptance for all who have mental problems and it angers me when someone thinks that they can re-label it and make it all better.And they're doing it for MY sake. I didn't ask them to,and what I see is an attempt to gloss over the real problem by saying,"See. We care. We've done away with that nasty old term and given your problem a nice non-perjoritive name." And nothing has been done to change the way the rest of the population views mental illness. All that happens is that now there is a new perjoritive term and the do-gooders have moved on.

Sorry about the length, but it really upsets me.

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