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I'm LGBT myself, and I just say LGBT. Otherwise it's too many leters and it gets annoying to say more than once.
I wish I liked seafood! My husband and kids adore shellfish and as you can imagine, we have the best of the best of the best up here. I don't think you can get great seafood in Deer Park so I understand. But I can't abide the stuff.
I like reading that you use "Ma'am". My sons do as well. It's the polite and decent thing to do. Don't change! Haters will be haters.
I like it when I get called ma'am, too. I almost never do, because people usually just see me as a kid.
Your husband and I have something in common. Seafood is delicious.
You missed a "t" in letters. Can I buy you an extra t?
You missed a "t" in letters. Can I buy you an extra t?
I wish I knew. I do love to watch them eat lobsters, crabs, oysters, etc. but wild horses couldn't make me touch the stuff.
I am asking the membership if there may be some politically correct (PC) terms you might actually agree with using. I have scores I think are completely foolish and goofy, but there are three I happen to agree with totally. Here they are for your discussion and / or...."disagreement".
1. NOT calling grown women "girls". I learned this early when I first started working in the hospitality industry. Girls are children, and grown-up females are women. Call them otherwise to your peril.
2. Use "they" rather than HE when discussing general individuals. A state inspector was going through my hotel once when i managed it and I had not seen HIM start the inspection, but asked the clerk when did she think HE would be through with it. Down the hall came the inspector and THEY were not a HE, but a SHE. Don't tell me that little screw up of mine did not earn us a few hits on the inspection.
I should have asked the clerk when did THEY say THEY would be done. Much safer and covers all bases.
3. Native American. Technically accurate even if they came over to North America via a land bridge or whatever. They were still here first. To me, that makes them indigenous peoples.
Do you have any you can enlighten us with that seem fine to use in normal conversation with others?
There are others that are so completely wrong I will not list them and no one but politicians and those on TV use. The rest of us don't.
I wish I liked seafood! My husband and kids adore shellfish and as you can imagine, we have the best of the best of the best up here. I don't think you can get great seafood in Deer Park so I understand. But I can't abide the stuff.
I like reading that you use "Ma'am". My sons do as well. It's the polite and decent thing to do. Don't change! Haters will be haters.
Your husband and I have something in common. Seafood is delicious.
Weird thing is, I used to be afraid of seafood. Like, I remember being afraid to get the meat out of crawfish, so I'd make my dad do it for me. But now, I have no problem whatsoever.
...suck the head and bite the tail...
Yup. I used not wanna do that, because stupid me was scared it was gonna come back alive in my mouth. I do that with gusto now.
In fact, the only thing that I hate about crawfish now is that you get so little meat from it.
I am asking the membership if there may be some politically correct (PC) terms you might actually agree with using. I have scores I think are completely foolish and goofy, but there are three I happen to agree with totally. Here they are for your discussion and / or...."disagreement".
1. NOT calling grown women "girls". I learned this early when I first started working in the hospitality industry. Girls are children, and grown-up females are women. Call them otherwise to your peril.
2. Use "they" rather than HE when discussing general individuals. A state inspector was going through my hotel once when i managed it and I had not seen HIM start the inspection, but asked the clerk when did she think HE would be through with it. Down the hall came the inspector and THEY were not a HE, but a SHE. Don't tell me that little screw up of mine did not earn us a few hits on the inspection.
I should have asked the clerk when did THEY say THEY would be done. Much safer and covers all bases.
3. Native American. Technically accurate even if they came over to North America via a land bridge or whatever. They were still here first. To me, that makes them indigenous peoples.
Do you have any you can enlighten us with that seem fine to use in normal conversation with others?
There are others that are so completely wrong I will not list them and no one but politicians and those on TV use. The rest of us don't.
I am asking the membership if there may be some politically correct (PC) terms you might actually agree with using. I have scores I think are completely foolish and goofy, but there are three I happen to agree with totally. Here they are for your discussion and / or...."disagreement".
1. NOT calling grown women "girls". I learned this early when I first started working in the hospitality industry. Girls are children, and grown-up females are women. Call them otherwise to your peril.
2. Use "they" rather than HE when discussing general individuals. A state inspector was going through my hotel once when i managed it and I had not seen HIM start the inspection, but asked the clerk when did she think HE would be through with it. Down the hall came the inspector and THEY were not a HE, but a SHE. Don't tell me that little screw up of mine did not earn us a few hits on the inspection.
I should have asked the clerk when did THEY say THEY would be done. Much safer and covers all bases.
3. Native American. Technically accurate even if they came over to North America via a land bridge or whatever. They were still here first. To me, that makes them indigenous peoples.
Do you have any you can enlighten us with that seem fine to use in normal conversation with others?
There are others that are so completely wrong I will not list them and no one but politicians and those on TV use. The rest of us don't.
For the most part very few "PC" terms bother me i guess. Most i can even think of off the top of my head are all fine "when used in the right setting" . .thats whats key . . .so im just not sensitive enough to really be bothered by them.
some people dont curse at all, some people never take the lords name in vain, many people talk different in front of thier grandmother or priest or at a job interview than you talk to your friends at the bar or in your own home. These are all versions of PC actions. Why judge one so harshly and not others? Its mostly relative and doesn't matter to me. Like I said the right setting, the issue some people have is when they demand others use thier usage at all times or declare its the only right way or when some people are so bothered by others using something so called PC . . .different sides of the same coin, just people not getting thier way :shrug:
I am asking the membership if there may be some politically correct (PC) terms you might actually agree with using. I have scores I think are completely foolish and goofy, but there are three I happen to agree with totally. Here they are for your discussion and / or...."disagreement".
1. NOT calling grown women "girls". I learned this early when I first started working in the hospitality industry. Girls are children, and grown-up females are women. Call them otherwise to your peril.
2. Use "they" rather than HE when discussing general individuals. A state inspector was going through my hotel once when i managed it and I had not seen HIM start the inspection, but asked the clerk when did she think HE would be through with it. Down the hall came the inspector and THEY were not a HE, but a SHE. Don't tell me that little screw up of mine did not earn us a few hits on the inspection.
I should have asked the clerk when did THEY say THEY would be done. Much safer and covers all bases.
3. Native American. Technically accurate even if they came over to North America via a land bridge or whatever. They were still here first. To me, that makes them indigenous peoples.
Do you have any you can enlighten us with that seem fine to use in normal conversation with others?
There are others that are so completely wrong I will not list them and no one but politicians and those on TV use. The rest of us don't.
SIDENOTE: I got my hiney reamed by a woman in Philly once by calling her Ma'am. Sorry, darlin', I am from Texas and that is just how we are. No insult intended.
Some folks walk around just looking for something to get offended over.
Yes. Only use 'African American' if you habitually say 'European American' for 'white' US citizens.
I am asking the membership if there may be some politically correct (PC) terms you might actually agree with using. I have scores I think are completely foolish and goofy, but there are three I happen to agree with totally. Here they are for your discussion and / or...."disagreement".
1. NOT calling grown women "girls". I learned this early when I first started working in the hospitality industry. Girls are children, and grown-up females are women. Call them otherwise to your peril.
2. Use "they" rather than HE when discussing general individuals. A state inspector was going through my hotel once when i managed it and I had not seen HIM start the inspection, but asked the clerk when did she think HE would be through with it. Down the hall came the inspector and THEY were not a HE, but a SHE. Don't tell me that little screw up of mine did not earn us a few hits on the inspection.
I should have asked the clerk when did THEY say THEY would be done. Much safer and covers all bases.
3. Native American. Technically accurate even if they came over to North America via a land bridge or whatever. They were still here first. To me, that makes them indigenous peoples.
Do you have any you can enlighten us with that seem fine to use in normal conversation with others?
There are others that are so completely wrong I will not list them and no one but politicians and those on TV use. The rest of us don't.
I think it more difficult on terms of free expression having to avoid using expressions that are not PC.
Other than “Native American” I think those types of terms are useless. They make as assumptiin about a person’s citizenship and are useless in describing people who aren’t American.
One thing I find interesting is we refer to people whose ancestors came from Asia as “Asian” all the time. “That Asian guy over there is in my class”. Even if the person has never visited Asia. It just describes a general ethnicity. Yet we rarely refer to white and black people as “European” or “African”. If you refer to a white European as “European” you will probably get a strange look. If you refer to a black American as just “African” you might actually offend someone. But “Asian” is perfectly fine.
Again that would be your issue im guessing. What do YOU have to avoid and why?
Nope. Not my issue. An issue of persons with odd opinions not being allowed to state their opinions means that they don't put their opiniins up for discussion leaving them to fester in the underground. This has happened in places like areas of Europe, in Turkey or Iran.
In the USA it was less a problem, but has become one in recent years. Trump's election was partially due to this backlash.
Other than “Native American” I think those types of terms are useless. They make as assumptiin about a person’s citizenship and are useless in describing people who aren’t American.
One thing I find interesting is we refer to people whose ancestors came from Asia as “Asian” all the time. “That Asian guy over there is in my class”. Even if the person has never visited Asia. It just describes a general ethnicity. Yet we rarely refer to white and black people as “European” or “African”. If you refer to a white European as “European” you will probably get a strange look. If you refer to a black American as just “African” you might actually offend someone. But “Asian” is perfectly fine.
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