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Frontiers of political correctness: banning the word 'too'
American Thinker ^ | 10/28/2015 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 10/28/2015 1:02:46 PM PDT by simpson96

Move over, Melissa Harris-Perry – it is getting crowded on the lunatic PC bench. Joining “hard worker” (racist!) on the PC banned word list is “too” (sexist!). That’s right: an adjective and adverb positing that something is more excessive in some quality than desirable is now verboten, as far as the Huffington Post is concerned. The editors there gave considerable space to Cameron Schaeffer, who identifies herself as a freshman at the University of Vermont, where her head has obviously been filled with victimology nonsense.

Ms. Schaeffer describes contemplating her hair in the mirror. From her HuffPo headshot, it is apparent that she has spent some time looking at her hair, and the results are, well, attractive. Not “too attractive,” to be sure, but still not “too unattractive,” either. Upon texting a female friend for advice, (snip) Ms. Schaeffer experienced an epiphany:

There is no proper way for a woman to cut her hair, let alone do anything right in this world. There seems to be an unobtainable one-millimeter-wide mark of perfection, and none of us can reach it. Everything is too this or too that. We see it every day in the tabloids. For example, one day a female celebrity is too revealing and the next day she is too matronly.

In my experience, I rarely hear too thrown around about men. You hear someone say, "He's short," but you seldom hear "too short."

If Ms. Schaeffer spent any time with me, she’d hear the expression “too fat” leave my lips nearly every time I pass a mirror. But apparently that is OK, even if it doesn’t exist in her world at the University of Vermont:

We should call on both genders to cut the word too from their vocabulary when discussing women.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ban; pc; politicalcorrectness; politicallycorrect; too; word; words
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The 'real world' is gonna eat this one alive.
1 posted on 10/28/2015 1:02:46 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Not too smart!


2 posted on 10/28/2015 1:05:01 PM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: simpson96

Not too smart!


3 posted on 10/28/2015 1:05:28 PM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: simpson96

Too funny


4 posted on 10/28/2015 1:05:54 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: simpson96

She’s just trying to leave her mark...
[insert various jokes here]


5 posted on 10/28/2015 1:06:04 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: simpson96

Her eyebrows are too dark.


6 posted on 10/28/2015 1:06:17 PM PDT by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: simpson96

Too funny!


7 posted on 10/28/2015 1:06:24 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: simpson96

Too legit to quit.


8 posted on 10/28/2015 1:06:37 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: simpson96

I’m too sexy for my shirt.


9 posted on 10/28/2015 1:07:30 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Explain again why all Leftists are too valuable to be gassed.


10 posted on 10/28/2015 1:07:51 PM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
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Her eyebrows are too dark.

...

I too, agree.


11 posted on 10/28/2015 1:08:36 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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Too fking bad.


12 posted on 10/28/2015 1:08:53 PM PDT by clintonh8r
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In my experience, I rarely hear too thrown around about men. You hear someone say, "He's short," but you seldom hear "too short."

I admit that I'm too fat, too old and too ugly. My mother ( a female btw) often told me I was too smart for my own good and my wife (another female) used to tell me I was too lazy. So there!

13 posted on 10/28/2015 1:09:24 PM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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Cameron Schaeffer, who identifies herself as a freshman...

Shouldn't that be "freshperson"?

Schaeffer is obviously a sexist throwback to an anachronistic pre-modern era. I demand that she be expelled, or at the very least be forced to bake blueberry muffins for anyone who, like me, is offended by her self-characterizations.

14 posted on 10/28/2015 1:09:35 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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A slight resemblance to Mary Katherine Ham, with lighter hair. Attractive to this old goat.


15 posted on 10/28/2015 1:10:11 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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Melissa Harris-Perry needs to be introduced to a large pile of rocks and provided with a small hammer . There to remain for about 5 years


16 posted on 10/28/2015 1:10:39 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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The big moron and the little moron were walking beside a cliff. The big moron fell off, the little one didn’t.
Because he was a little...more...on.

This chick is the big moron. She’ll fall off because she is TOO big of a moron.


17 posted on 10/28/2015 1:11:39 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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I’m too sexy for my shirt.

Just had to (o) :-)

18 posted on 10/28/2015 1:12:42 PM PDT by PROCON (A proud CRUZader.)
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Too funny..............


19 posted on 10/28/2015 1:14:04 PM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Paladin2

All she needs is some glasses and a Groucho nose.............


20 posted on 10/28/2015 1:14:50 PM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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