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ORIGINAL: ImpGrrl

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ORIGINAL: mistoferin
Yes they do...and that was the point (I think, correct me if I'm wrong twice) of this post. It HAS gone too far.

I think the "point" of the OP wasn't to say that PC has gone too far, but to say that others are living and, more importantly, *defining* their lives in ways that conflict with her definitions - and that, because of that, they're wrong.

Which is BS.

I agree that some aspects of "PC" may have gone too far - but I don't believe that was the real nuts-and-bolts point of the post.

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ORIGINAL: twicehappy
I go to the store(this is a rather extreme example but at this point i believe anybody who did not get this after Celeste's goat fucker does not equal animal lover post needs one), i buy a box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, i go home open the box and pour myself a big bowl of Purina Cat Chow.

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ORIGINAL: ShiftedJewel
The reality is ImpGrrl... she really doesn't give a rats ass what someone chooses to call themselves. Nor does my husband and I...

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ORIGINAL: Reflectivesoul

ImpGrrl,
 
Is there some reason you feel the need to continually goad at others?

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ORIGINAL: ImpGrrl

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ORIGINAL: twicehappy
I go to the store(this is a rather extreme example but at this point i believe anybody who did not get this after Celeste's goat fucker does not equal animal lover post needs one), i buy a box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, i go home open the box and pour myself a big bowl of Purina Cat Chow.

Upon reading the ingredients list and studying the packaging closely in the store, you discover that it looks and sounds a heck of a lot like the Cat Chow you've seen in the past - you can then decide whether to buy it and risk being disappointed later, or put it back on the shelf.

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ORIGINAL: mistoferin
Holy crap, can you imagine how messed up and complicated the world would be if everything were mislabeled in this manner? Sure, we can analyze it all under a microscope to see if it really is what it says it is....but wouldn't there be a lot less wasted time and energy if we didn't need to go through all that bullshit because there was no reason to believe that it would be anything other than what it said it was? Because it was labeled correctly in the first place?

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ORIGINAL: ImpGrrl
One man's "cat chow" is another man's "cornflakes". 

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ORIGINAL: mistoferin
Yup, you're right. I am sure that somewhere out there there is some eccentric freak who thinks that a bowl of cat chow is preferable to cornflakes for breakfast. But Purina labels "Cat Chow" "Cat Chow" and Kellogg's labels "Cornflakes" "Cornflakes" because they are not marketing their products to eccentric freaks....they are marketing them in a way that will be best understood and recognized by the majority. Personally, I am glad it works the way it does.

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Thus, I repeat - one man's cornflakes is another man's cat chow.

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ORIGINAL: ImpGrrl

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ORIGINAL: mistoferin
Yup, you're right. I am sure that somewhere out there there is some eccentric freak who thinks that a bowl of cat chow is preferable to cornflakes for breakfast. But Purina labels "Cat Chow" "Cat Chow" and Kellogg's labels "Cornflakes" "Cornflakes" because they are not marketing their products to eccentric freaks....they are marketing them in a way that will be best understood and recognized by the majority. Personally, I am glad it works the way it does.

The trouble is, we've been trying to apply this metaphor to humans, and human relationships.  I'll admit - it isn't working.  It didn't work when twicehappy started it, and I made the mistake of trying to continue it.

The point is - we are trying to describe *relationships*, and *people* here.  Not cat chow or cornflakes.  Not easily defined packaged products, but complex beings.

Complex beings, and relationships between those complex beings, *can not* be shoved into clever marketing packages.  They can not be boxed and packaged and labeled like food.  Their ingredients don't follow a predictable chemistry-set set of reactions when combined.  The same amounts of corn flour and sugar thrown into each of these complex being produces a wonderfully different flavor from the other.

Thus, I repeat - one man's cornflakes is another man's cat chow.