[Artemisia] political correctness - response - read only if you care

[Ysabel de Lille]

Um, just as a point of note, which I prob'ly should have included, the previous message should have had an addendum stating "Please Read With Light-Hearted, Affectionate, Yet Dripping Sarcasm"  Most who know me know I dearly LOVE a good debate, Can't Stand a rotten flaming (which I don't think this is at all), and dearly enjoy the arts of understatement, dry humour, and sarcasm.

So now, My Two Francs.

Franc One:  Political Correctness is a concept with a good beginning, (rather like Utopia) but has gotten ridiculously out of hand.  Being one who speaks two languages rather fluently, I can guarantee that there is ALWAYS going to be some word in use in one language that is completely innocent, while the other is perfectly horrendous.  Take the French word for "baby seal."  Cute little adorable baby creature, isn't it?  Well my darlings, in French, it's VERY similar to a certain word starting with an F in this language that most of us really do try to avoid.  Are the French planning on banning this word any time soon to avoid hurting our feelings or offending our senses?  Um, NON, and if they did, I might start thinking they're a bunch of pansies.

Franc Two:  Do I really and truly have an issue with calling boffers swords now?  Not really.  If Corpora has stated that this is to be to maintain a safe projected image to a sue-happy public that enjoys stomping on anyone who defies so-called political correctness, then so be it.  Corpora was created (In The Beginning...) so that the rest of us in the SCA could go about happily enjoying the Renaissance, Medieval times, Dark Ages, Viking Raids, Norman and Saxon Conquests, etc, in relative peace from mundane matters.  I rather enjoy taking up any issues I may have with where it will do the most good.  In other words, if I have an issue with a policy, I take it up with the policy makers, whether these be SCA Corpora or my local legislation.  So, SINCE I've realized that there IS a reason behind the madness of calling a boffer sword simply a sword, and that it does basically make sense in this mundane world to take precautions ("avoiding the appearance of evil as well as the
 evil" or something like that?  Seem to remember that as a quote somewhere...), I will go ahead, grumble a bit about how political correctness has stomped a bit rudely over the threshold of "polite" and "nice" for the most part, and start explaining to my son that it's just his "sword" and not a "boffer".

Cheers!  Going to go eat some chocolate now, as I'm having a rather rotten day. :D
 
~*~Lady Ysabel la Serena de Lille~*~
 
Dalek: But you have no weapons! No defences! No plan! 
Doctor: (grinning) Yeah. And doesn't that scare you to death?