A set of principles establishing different provisions for
one group than another; also, specifically, allowing men more sexual freedom
than women. For example, She complained that her father had a double
standard--her brothers were allowed to date, but she was not, even though she
was older. [Mid-1900s]
A set of principles permitting greater opportunity or
liberty to one than to another, especially the granting of greater sexual
freedom to men than to women.
The term double standard, coined in the early 1950's, refers to is
any set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people
than for another Double standards between the sexes is common in many cultures.
One form of a a double standard may be an instance in which certain
applications (often of a word or phrase) are perceived as acceptable to be used
by one group of people, but are considered unacceptable—taboo—when used by
another group. Often, for example, it is seen as socially acceptable for a
member of a cultural group to jokingly call members of the same group by an
ethnically derogatory name; however, anyone outside this ethnic group is viewed
as intolerant or discriminatory when he/she calls a member of the group by that
same derogatory name.
A double standard, thus, can be described as a sort of biased, morally
unfair suspension (toward a certain group) of the principle that all are equal
in their freedoms. Such double standards are seen as unjustified because they
violate a basic maxim of modern legal jurisprudence: that all parties should
stand equal before the law. Double standards also violate the principle of justice
known as impartiality, which is based on the assumption that the same standards
should be applied to all people, without regard to subjective bias or favoritism
based on social class, rank, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation or
other distinction. A double standard violates this principle by holding
different people accountable according to different standards. The proverb
"life is not fair" is often invoked in order to mollify
concerns over double standards.
There is a distinction to be made between double standards and hypocrisy,
which implies the stated or presumed acceptance of a single standard a person
claims to hold himself or herself accountable to, but which, in practice, may
be disregarded.
Example
The term double standard, coined in the early 1950's, refers to is any
set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than
for another. Double standards between the sexes is common in many cultures.
One form of a a double standard may be an instance in which certain
applications (often of a word or phrase) are perceived as acceptable to be used
by one group of people, but are considered unacceptable—taboo—when used by
another group. Often, for example, it is seen as socially acceptable for a
member of a cultural group to jokingly call members of the same group by an
ethnically derogatory name; however, anyone outside this ethnic group is viewed
as intolerant or discriminatory when he/she calls a member of the group by that
same derogatory name.
A double standard, thus, can be described as a sort of biased, morally
unfair suspension (toward a certain group) of the principle that all are equal
in their freedoms. Such double standards are seen as unjustified because they
violate a basic maxim of modern legal jurisprudence: that all parties should
stand equal before the law. Double standards also violate the principle of justice
known as impartiality, which is based on the assumption that the same standards
should be applied to all people, without regard to subjective bias or favoritism
based on social class, rank, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation or
other distinction. A double standard violates this principle by holding
different people accountable according to different standards. The proverb
"life is not fair" is often invoked in order to mollify
concerns over double standards.
There is a distinction to be made between double standards and hypocrisy,
which implies the stated or presumed acceptance of a single standard a person
claims to hold himself or herself accountable to, but which, in practice, may
be disregarded.
Political correctness
Political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct; both
forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term applied to language, ideas,
policies, or behavior seen as seeking to minimize offense to gender, racial,
cultural, disabled, aged or other identity groups. Conversely, the term
"politically incorrect" is used to refer to language or ideas that
may cause offense or that are seen as unconstrained by orthodoxy.
The term itself and its usage are controversial. The term "political
correctness" is used almost exclusively in a pejorative sense, while
"politically incorrect" is sometimes used as an implicitly positive
self-description, as in the series of "Politically Incorrect Guides",
produced by conservative publisher Regnery and the
former talk show Politically Incorrect.
Examples
midget = vertically challenged
fat = horizontally challenged
perverted = sexually dysfunctional
alive = temporarily metabolically abled
Negro = African American
Indian = Native American
Anyone from Central America, South America, or the Caribbean = Hispanic
body odour = nondiscretionary fragrance
dishonest = ethically disoriented
gay = different
wrong = differently logical
dead = living impaired
pregnant = parasitically oppressed
fired = laid off
poor = financially inept
homeless = residentially flexible
tall = lanky (henry)
garbage-man = scruff
blind = visually challenged
More examples
Actor: metamorphosing being, possessing great wealth Actress: metamorphosing being, possessing great wealth (and occasionally
great beauty) Android: bipedal, non-human associate, bearing immense knowledge and
skill Bag boy: agricultural product organizer Bald: follicularly challenged Bomb: vertically deployed antipersonnel device Boy: oppressor-to-be Brainwashing: cognitive accommodation Cafeteria: dining facility Car: earth-unfriendly, vertically-challenged mode of transport Car Wash Worker: vehicle-appearance specialist Cat: quadruped non-human associate Cheating: cooperative assignment Computer: machine bearing immense power and fallibility Criticism: unjust self-esteem reducer Dead: metabolically challenged Demand: propose strongly Derision: nontraditional praise Dirty Old Man: horny
Dumb: cerebrally challenged Evil: niceness deprived Exercise: body enhancement through exertion Failure: non-traditional success Fart: human ozone depletor; ecologically incorrect expression Fat: horizontally challenged: person of substance Garbage collector: sanitation engineer Gas Station Attendant: petroleum transfer technician Girl: pre-woman Guess: anomaly maneuvers: repetitive predictions Handicapped: physically challenged Heroine: hera Homeless person: residentially flexible individual Hurricane: himmicane (non sexist) Ignorant: factually unencumbered Incorrect: alternative answer Individualism: uncooperative spirit Information: overly structured trivia Insane: reality challenged Kill: creating a permanent state of metabolic dormancy; servicing the
target (military) Lazy: motivationally dispossessed Lost: locationally disadvantaged Man: oppressor Manhole: maintenance portal Misunderstand: personalized interpretation Monster: person of scales Mugging: unforeseen funding of underclass Murderer: termination specialist Nerd: under-attractive, cerebrally gifted individual Numismatist: capitalist monetary acquisition expert Nut: hexagonal rotatable surface compression unit Off: energy efficient Old: chronologically gifted Perfume: discretionary fragrance Pervert: person engaged in nontraditional espionage Pissed off: satisfaction deprived Political: amorally gifted Poor: economically marginalized Prisoner: client of the correctional system Prostitute: body entrepreneur Redneck: rustically inclined Rich: economically maximized Secretary: stationery engineer Sex: cooperative physical fitness Sexist: gender biased with niceness deprived overtones Short: altitudinally disadvantaged: vertically challenged Sleepy: under-alert Smart: cerebrally gifted Specialist: physician having concentrated on a particular field of tax
shelters Structure: impersonal hindrance Tall: vertically gifted: altitudinally endowed Teacher: volunteer knowledge conveyor Teaching: personality repression Television: medium of electrons moving in disorganized patterns
Tired: rest-challenged Uglier: over under-attractive Ugliest: over-under-attractively gifted Ugly: under-attractive Unemployed: non-waged Unsure: conceptual conflict Waiter: waitron Waitress: waitron White: melanin-impoverished; member of the mutant albino
genetic-recessive global minority Woman: w/o man; womyn Zipper: interlocking slide fasteners
Political Correctness, Has it gone too far?
Anyone remember a old saying that went:
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me!
The supporters of political correctness have all completely forgotten it and
believe other wise.
Rather than repeating what has already been said elsewhere on the net, I
thought it would be better for me to just give you the links to the ones I have
found interesting and or humourous.
PLEASE, CONSIDER NOT VOTING FOR THE LIBERAL PARTY!
Political Correctness Gone Mad in Canada
The Alberta Human Rights Commission is what happens when political
correctness is taken so far to the extreme that it approaches madness. It
operates as political storm troupers trashing Canada's
free speech and press, turning the country into a police state. One of the
people they went after was Ezra Levant. Levant is the
former publisher of the Western Standard, Canadian newsweekly with Conservative
Party leanings. He drew the attention of Muslim activists on Feb. 13, 2006, when the Standard republished
those Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that had fueled protests — some
of them violent — throughout the world.
What the commission did not expect when called Levant to
testify about publishing the cartoons was being told off. Ezra Levant gave the
commission exactly what they had coming to them.
This is his classic
opening statement as reported on his blog it should be sent to every US Congressman as an example of
legislation gone too far:
