shishomiru04 opened this issue on Aug 25, 2006 · 70 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 30 August 2006 at 12:05 PM
Quote - Oh, Xen, Xen, I feel so chastened. I think I'll run over to WalMart and buy a laudatory biography of Dick Cheney, read it quickly, then tear up the pages and toss them into a pristine wilderness!
That's a unique idea for recycling paper. Not to mention that it would provide superb nesting material for small animals. Excellent enviromentally-friendly idea.
Quote - You are right, of course. People who think hooters the size of Australia are a feminine ideal are just guys with preferences. Holy Moses, who could think otherwise except a liberal traitor obsessed with political correctness???
Personally, I find that "hooters the size of Australia" look deformed. There it is. I'll go further and also grant you that gigantic "hooters" can be offered up to us as an entirely unhealthy obsession. I certainly won't argue the point that women can be objectified. But for that matter: so can men. People of any type can be objectified. And while admitting that various body types & the attraction to them are in the eye of the beholder -- it still remains that there is a generally accepted ideal. This is the world & the reality that we live in. Perfectly natural inclinations cannot be pointed to as a reason for condemnation. Because if they are: then we are all equally condemned. The problem here stems from an apparent desire to place everyone whose tastes follow the generally accepted ideal into a condemned category.
Personal taste is personal taste.
Attempts to force people to adhere to some other mode of thnking will always fail in the end. However: such attempts at enforced mental bondage contrary to free nature can and do sometimes succeed in making life into a living hell for many, many people. Unless, of course, if one wishes to immigrate to North Korea. While the topic that we are discussing here certainly doesn't rise anywhere near the level of North Korean regimentation -- it can be extended to show the same sort of principles in operation in a microcosm.
PC'ism is just another form of mental bondage. And I'm a conservative with libertarian leanings. So the smell of PC is offensive.