Political correctness is one of those things that is so personally defined. I appreciate the way you are sharing your observations of outrage online. You’ve given me some great solutions to the frustration I feel when I read certain comments — namely, I can work on choosing not to be frustrated because people with uninformed opinions got no shame about their ignorance.

As for being ‘too PC’ I have one example from my life that I look to when gauging if something is over-the-top PC. I was once on a Take Back the Night committee. I only went to one meeting and couldn’t bring myself back. The way it was run was meant to prevent anyone ever in the history of all humans from being offended, which meant it took ages to get anything done because someone might be offended if we made too much noise but we had to speak clearly in case someone had hearing difficulties and this wasn’t accounted for but we couldn’t make certain hand movements in case they triggered someone and on and on ad nauseum.

I was talking to my fiance about this experience and she said that it sounded like they were taking themselves way too seriously. We then discussed that, in order for discrimination to be addressed, one needs to have a sense of humour. Which led to a whole conversation about how comedians function as bringers of uncomfortable truths but by doing so we suddenly bring a serious topic of discussion OUT, so it can genuinely and openly be discussed.

Paralysing people with fear that they might offend someone doesn’t invite conversation. So if it doesn’t invite conversation or allow for dialogue — I label it as too PC.

Thank you for creating a conversation. :)