The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook

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HUMOR
BE SENSITIVE OR ELSE!
Welcome to the nineties. But you better watch what you say. If you're not politically correct, not even your pet—oops, your animal companion—will love you anymore.
Consider this list. If you use any of the words in the left-hand column, you're in danger of being written off as hopelessly ableist. Ageist. Ethnocentric or Eurocentric. Hegemonie. Heterosexist, logocentric, lookist, patriarchal, or phallocentric. Racist, sexist, sizeist, or speciesist. Or—worse still!—all of the above.
Incorrect Correct
dead = terminally inconvenienced
disabled CS" handi-capable
drunk = sobriety-deprived
fail tr achieve a deficiency
fat = possessing an alternative body image
girl cw prewoman
girl watching = Street harassment
North America tr Turtle Island
old = chronologically gifted
pregnant parasitically oppressed
prisoner = client of the correctional system
stupid cerebrally challenged
white = • melanin impoverished
wife tr domestic incarcération... Tovább

Fülszöveg

HUMOR
BE SENSITIVE OR ELSE!
Welcome to the nineties. But you better watch what you say. If you're not politically correct, not even your pet—oops, your animal companion—will love you anymore.
Consider this list. If you use any of the words in the left-hand column, you're in danger of being written off as hopelessly ableist. Ageist. Ethnocentric or Eurocentric. Hegemonie. Heterosexist, logocentric, lookist, patriarchal, or phallocentric. Racist, sexist, sizeist, or speciesist. Or—worse still!—all of the above.
Incorrect Correct
dead = terminally inconvenienced
disabled CS" handi-capable
drunk = sobriety-deprived
fail tr achieve a deficiency
fat = possessing an alternative body image
girl cw prewoman
girl watching = Street harassment
North America tr Turtle Island
old = chronologically gifted
pregnant parasitically oppressed
prisoner = client of the correctional system
stupid cerebrally challenged
white = • melanin impoverished
wife tr domestic incarcération survivor
But it may not be too late! Here, in this comprehensive, exhaustively researched reference work, you can Und out exactly
what you can say, what you can't say, who says so, and why. Yes, whether you're an oppressor or a victim (or maybe both!), The
Official Poiiticsdly Correct Dictionary and Handbook is the book—sorry, the processed tree carcass—for you! BONUS: Special Bureaucraticaliy Suitable (BS) section for use in the workplace!
The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf Authors of The Book of Sequels Vissza