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ORIGINAL: IronBear

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.

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ORIGINAL: JustDarkness

Interesting post.
Am I correct that this relates a little to the labeling?

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ORIGINAL: JustDarkness

It sure will be.

I am curious (and not sure if it fits in) about the White D's wanting a black/afro american/coloured s.
I know it is a touchy subject...but I see it often mentioned in profiles.

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ORIGINAL: JustDarkness

I do see coloured people..just as what they are..people. As you said...if there is chemistry...why would one worry about having her/him chained.
IF we keep see them as "coulered" we will never advance. People are people..no matter what colour.

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ORIGINAL: IronBear

An Australian Aboriginal mate of mine, a much venerated tribal elder in Western Australia once commented on a TV interview:
"It doesn't matter if you are Black, Yellow, Brown, Green or Blue, we are ALL Australians first!" Makes a whole lot of sense to me.  

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ORIGINAL: OmegaG

PC jargon is used with the intention of being as unoffensive to the largest segment of people.  Unfortunately some get so hung up on PC jargon that they don't learn about the audience they are communicating with.  The most glaring example I can think of are the terms "african-american", et al, there are individuals that I know that fit under that PC umbrella that hate the term and were I to communicate with these people I would chose a less offensive term to the individual.  I just moved from an extremely PC sensitive area and there is a Women of Color Task Force that holds a Women of Color seminar every year.  So sometimes the terms are or are not PC based on content or intent too.

As far as this site is concerned, maybe "lifestyle" can fall under one of those PC terms to describe "us" as a whole but really doesn't sit well with some individuals, so when addressing the larger group it might be OK to use that word for lack of something better, but when addressing those individuals that have vocally objected to that term, it would be far from PC to use that term. 

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ORIGINAL: OmegaG

However, I would bet that when you caught flack it wasn't a person of color that called you to the mat, but a white person that was over sensitive to being seen as non-sensitive to race.

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ORIGINAL: colouredin


How ironic that this word (the c word) has been used in a PC thread.

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ORIGINAL: JustDarkness
That is why I use coloured now or when I know...just the name of the person.