SHORT COMMUNICATION 210
Political Correctness Stinks
By
Roger Behra
Political correctness in America has been in effect for quite some time. It is a counterculture invention, and in causes so much head scratching and utter amazement in modern American social behavior. It all started when counterculture women then counterculture women initiated lawsuits that forced courts to lawfully give women the same rights as men. However, the ideology expanded into allowing mixed groups and nationalities to also have certain frivolous rights they were not legally entitled to have. It became the willy-nilly expansion of social rights through the court system that has given political correctness a very bad odor. Presently, it stinks.
Political correctness affects how a person acts and what is said anywhere in American society. It controls what can be said on the radio and television, and it definitely controls what is printed in the print media. It has affected the mode of dress and what is allowed in regards to personal appearance-hair and dress styles, tattoos, and the latest fashions. It has greatly affected the American schools. It has dumbed-down many facets of American society.
One area of American society greatly affected by PC is American sports. It concerns locker room etiquette. A court decision should never have been made allowing female reporters to go into men´s locker rooms immediately after a practice or a game while men team members are going to and from showers and other places partially dressed or completely undressed. This very often happens. And when the guys whistle or words are said, the female reporters complain of sexual harassment. The locker room etiquette court decision is nonsensical political correctness and very bad judgment on the part of female reporters. It is more counterculture cluelessness that just because something can be done, that does not mean it should be done.
Isn´t it amazing that men reporters do not go into women´s locker rooms to get a news story while women athletes are in various stages of undress. If they did, no doubt women would cry to high heaven and rant and rave against the men. Males seem to excercise much better judgment.
Another form of PC takes place that can but should not. It pertains to how women dress and then go out in public or to church. Women dress very provocatively in tight fitting jeans or extremely short miniskirts and have half or more of their breasts are bare for all to see. And if boys or man whistle or make any remarks, they are accused of sexual harassment under the cover of PC. It is the immoral mode of dress of women that is politically incorrect.
Political correctness has greatly blurred the line between what is correct and incorrect in so many cases. It is a detrimental counterculture maneuver that has hurt American culture. Political correctness is not the way to go, and it never will be.
R. B.
9-23-10