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Often have I read comments regarding the negative impact of Political Correctness on society generally and on your Kink Life. It occurred to me that a thread right here would be a grand idea so all of us can vent not just on Political Correctness but particularly on it’s intrusion on the Wonderful World of Kink. If we can keep it mostly on the BDSM subject, I think (crosses claws on large paws and larger feet), that the Mods will allow this to remain here.
Recently I had a conversation with a long time acquaintance who is the epitome of Political Correctness in which she was adamant I must not refer to servants as such but as either serving persons or male servants and female servants. On the same vein she believed it was incorrect to refer to sub/slaves as such but to refer to them as male or female slaves and male or female submissives. So far she can’t fault the use of Dom and Domi unless it is the abbreviating of their names which she abhors and of course Master and Mistress is perfectly politically correct…
This made me think of a comedy skit I heard recently where some analy retentive politically correct twerp was decrying the nursery rhythm “Three Blind Mice” and stated emphatically it needed to be renamed: “Three Vision Impaired Rodents.
And so we devolve to a group of white folk discussing what persons of African descent (like that?) want to be called. How about... calling them people. Works for me and I'm not sure why an Austrailian person of African descent would be called African-American. Someone explain that to me.
As for the rest of the PC movement and PC jargon, it seems the result of a society that has too much luxury time in that it wrings its hands over what might hurt someone's feelings rather than what might actually be unlawful. I offend people sometimes. I am offended sometimes. It is the way of life. Perhaps, in this life however, I should form a group, picket, cry, produce a moving documentary and get some global petting going on over the fact that I could care less whether the couple across the road are straight, gay, lesbian, white or black, smokers, non-smokers, intellectually challenged or just challenged period.
What I do care about is whether or not they mind their own fucking business. I prefer those who do. I'm often quite offensive to those who do not. When it comes to BDSM topics and lifestyles, I see it pretty much in the same light. I don't go out of my way to advertise what I like or how I live. I don't expect anyone to bend over hackwards for me in terms of acceptance or approval. In that light, I don't force it upon them nor do I feel a need to "come out" to anyone. Those who need to know, know. Those I choose to tell, I tell. Among others, I try to be respectful of what their relationship entails, whether it be Dom/sub, Master/slave, sensation happy kinksters, or Mr. and Mrs. Happy Vanilla - which I suppose is a way of being somewhat PC. It ends at the basic respect for such things though and definitely ends when someone starts giving me a list of approved words from which I can choose when I decide to interact with others.
I suppose it can be an interesting debate. The flip side to a lot of debates though is that one side or the other want to choose how you live and how you think. If I'm not going to let them choose how I live, I certainly am not going to let them choose how I think. Basic respect is a good thing. Giving people space to be who they are is a good thing. Letting life devolve into an anal-retentive guilt trip where every word is agnonized over or chosen from a list isn't.
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