One reason amongst many why i'm here and not there

[Bison]

I like pie.

[GDS_Starfury]

The pc mindset will never take me! 

Now...  wheres a bikini clad wench?  I need a sammich made!

[Huw the Poo]

Political Correctness is a ridiculous yet popular sub-culture that has been nurtured too much already.  It's been used to increasingly brainwash children over the decades, although it obviously didn't quite "take" on all of us.

It's just modern Revisionism and pushes the cries of Victimization to new levels, for no benefit other than political pandering or profit via litigation.  ::)

The thing is, I do agree that sexism - actual sexism, like a woman being paid less than a man at the same level, or whatever - is bad...but what's talked about over and over again in articles like these isn't sexism!  There's no conversation to have.

Further, one of the comments Tom disdainfully anticipates receiving is "Bloody white knight - you're just trying to impress women".  Now, in my book you don't get to preempt someone's argument without bothering to state your defense.  I say that "white knighting" is precisely what he's doing, to the point where he bizarrely sells out an entire gender.  Unbelievable.

[Rayfer]

Political Correctness is a ridiculous yet popular sub-culture that has been nurtured too much already.  It's been used to increasingly brainwash children over the decades, although it obviously didn't quite "take" on all of us.

It's just modern Revisionism and pushes the cries of Victimization to new levels, for no benefit other than political pandering or profit via litigation.  ::)

Well...at its worse I would agree that politcal correctness has done everything you wrote.  But at its best it teaches us compassion, inclusion and fairness over vicious, racist laden verbal barages against people who just happen to have a skin color other than their own or is gay or is of a religion other than their own. Political correctness can be a powerful positive tool as well.

[GDS_Starfury]

Bullshit.

[Staggerwing]

Careful here guys. We can always take it to the designated Free-Fire zone if there are certain things that just have to be said.

[Gusington]

No problems yet in what has been posted. Carry on. And someone get me a sandwich and some pie.

[Nefaro]

Political Correctness is a ridiculous yet popular sub-culture that has been nurtured too much already.  It's been used to increasingly brainwash children over the decades, although it obviously didn't quite "take" on all of us.

It's just modern Revisionism and pushes the cries of Victimization to new levels, for no benefit other than political pandering or profit via litigation.  ::)

Well...at its worse I would agree that politcal correctness has done everything you wrote.  But at its best it teaches us compassion, inclusion and fairness over vicious, racist laden verbal barages against people who just happen to have a skin color other than their own or is gay or is of a religion other than their own. Political correctness can be a powerful positive tool as well.

I've been seeing it used more & more for tools of censorship, revisionism, control or outright profit of some kind. 

As with anything, it's all about how much you think is the right amount.  I believe that point is regularly exceeded these days, and this is only one of the many overly melodramatic episodes we often see.  Mountains out of mole hills.   I fart in their general direction.  :P

[RooksBailey]

Political Correctness is a ridiculous yet popular sub-culture that has been nurtured too much already.  It's been used to increasingly brainwash children over the decades, although it obviously didn't quite "take" on all of us.

It's just modern Revisionism and pushes the cries of Victimization to new levels, for no benefit other than political pandering or profit via litigation.  ::)

I am actually glad to read your comment, along with the others in this thread. I used to read RPS and Polygon and others all the time, but now I don't because of all the politically correct BS that I have to slog through.  Somewhere along the line, game journalists have decided to follow the route of the mainstream media and dabble in left-wing politics, including militant feminism.  Polygon and RPS are particularly bad in this regard.  I am particularly amused by RPS because these fellas are always going on and on about the lack of diversity in the games industry but their little post modernist club is run entirely by white guys. 

As for the nature of political correctness: I've always seen it as an authoritarian code of conduct for an era devoid of traditional manners and politeness.   Nature hates a vacuum and all that....

[Jarhead0331]

Is It really like that over at RPS? That is seriously retarded. What are they, a bunch of homos? They all deserve to be bitch slapped. It's clearly the result of breeding techniques...they must have taken their largest most politically correct writer and bred him with all of their politically correct women to make a super politically correct writer....

Look at those monkeys write.

[BanzaiCat]

I don't know of any other site, gaming-wise anyway, where most of the discourse can actually manage to make jokes about such things but do so tongue-in-cheek without coming across as completely miserable misogynistic alpha males. Or make jokes about sex, violence, or other relatively untouchable subjects without actually being perceived as a mindless penis attached to a mobile organic platform that likes to kick things a lot.

I don't know if I'm explaining this right, but to me, there's a zone that we reside in, a zone that's between those that choose to view things in the worst possible light and be offended by everything and everything, and those that choose to just be over-the-top assholes with zero humor. We can make sexist jokes but we still have the utmost respect for women, for example.

[Gusington]

FWIW there are a couple of.women on the RPS staff.

[undercovergeek]

i dont know what demographic all the 'what? it has bikinis, i will never buy this game' belong to but i would imagine at least 90% of women would rise up and kick their ass if they won their agenda and women should sport manly clothes lest they be objectified

and im almost damn sure if a woman walked up to them in a bikini and said 'you, me - lets fk' there pants would be off in a blur of haste not seen before

[BanzaiCat]

Same demographic that bitches about a game like Leisure Suit Larry, completely missing the point of it.

[Jarhead0331]

Exclusive new video of RPS staff member confronting pro-life activists!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDJ0gnzt1M8