The decision by city slickers to escape the big smoke and big brother by moving to the Great Lakes has been reinforced by political correctness madness stories involving two Sydney schools.
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One high school seems hell bent on creating a neuter gender world devoid of “ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys”; a scenario made even more frightening if the 2016 Australian of the Year David Morrison succeeds in his mission to send all the “guys” to Coventry because he believes “guys” have no place in Australian society.
Another school has introduced the “silent cheering” mute button at assembly time.
The PC fanatics in the big cities also contend that discrimination today is unconditional, meaning we can’t say this or say that just in case we offend someone.
If this premise has validity, isn’t it discriminating against other birds to say the stork brings babies?
We associate sex with ‘the birds and the bees’ but you’d think rabbits and rattlesnakes also deserve an association credit.
An old TV ad for chocolate Smarties exhorted us to ‘Eat the red ones last,’ but that was clear discrimination against other colours, although I concede red cars go faster.
Seriously though, mankind was once considered generic or gender-neutral.
In a neuter gender world, would toilet seats be left up or down?
And if we eliminate “ladies, gentlemen, girls, boys, guys, free speech and cheering”; it leaves just Carlotta, Priscilla and computers to run the country.
Oh for the days when freedom of speech was sacrosanct, men were men, women were women
In the meantime let’s keep Great Lakes PC-free.
John Buttling,
Forster
