'Stone Age' called insult (PC Alert)

Washington Times ^ | March 8, 2007 | Jennifer Harper

[BJClinton]

Attention Fred Flintstone and the Geico cave guys: "Stone Age" is no longer acceptable, joining the list of other words and terms deemed offensive in polite society.

[ExpatGator]

Touche'

[BJClinton]

However, the idea of the cavemen 'struggling with discrimination' will be so PC and so preachy that it will not be funny.

It could (probably would) go that way. It could also be a vehicle to touch on societal taboos a la South Park.

[ichabod1]

Well, if ABC is making it I don't hold out much hope, but it could be funny.

[Unam Sanctam]

Why, that's positively Neolithic!

[Jack Hammer]

Excellent. Now it's time for we descendants of primitive, stone age peoples to get reparations for all those years of verbal abuse. Please put my check in the mail forthwith, or I'll be contacting my legislators and my attorney. Thank you.

[proud American in Canada]

"My Great Big Barnyard Wedding"....starring the AFLAC Duck...???

LOL!

[mass55th]

Have you seen this story on Oetzi, the frozen caveman found back in 1991? He's supposed to be cursed:

Oetzi

Revenge of the caveman?

[BJClinton]

You'd just ignore it, you type?

No, I would debunk it. The society I live in does not primarily use stone implements. It is, imperically, inaccurate.

[BJClinton]

although I've never heard of an ad campaign becoming a sh!tcom before. At least I don't think I have.

The Simpsons.

[dsc]

"However, the idea of the cavemen 'struggling with discrimination' will be so PC and so preachy that it will not be funny."

Maybe if they hired Ann Coulter to write the thing...

[Lx]

The funny part is that Ed O'Neil is a big time lib.

[reformedliberal]

I will bet that at the heart of this is not any idea of being insulting, but rather, the progressive fear that anyone so designated will immediately be the target for modernization. The environmentally aware desire not only that no one be modernized, they also want everyone to be forcibly regressed back to pre-industrialized eras.

Whenever I watch various History Channel programs on ancient cultures, the emphasis is on the "surprisingly sophisticated technology" (sic) of Pharonic Egypt or Mayan culture.There is a constant message of the superiority of those cultures who used the brute force of thousands of tribute laborers and some levers and fulcrums rather than anything more technologically advanced.

[Altura Ct.]

Where's all the Ann Coulter haters? Just a natural progression of where all this crap leads to.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Isn't the term "caveman" a bit misleading... meaning that not all stone age people lived in actual caves (not to mention that there must have been some women about). I'm guessing that some lived in mud huts or in the trees or maybe even slept on heating grates - I'm just saying that they all didn't live in caves.

[mewzilla]

I'll take a cave man over a metro any day.

[rwa265]

My Mom wants to say something about this. When she calls I'll put her on speakerphone.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I like primitive when it's like this:

[Chances Are]

Naw. We just bomb them back into the "Good Ol' Days"...

CA....

[Elsie]

              

 

You want me to run for WHAT against WHOM??

 

 

 

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(Who would ANN vote for?)

[Ditto]

I expect that descendents of stone age people will start suing Geico for their insensitivity.

I have been called a right wing Neanderthal more times than I can recall, so I guess I qualify. But I don't want to sue Geico --- I just want a casino license.