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1 Jul 10 Gender “sensitivity” is condescending
In this day and age political correctness is the norm - you can’t make jokes that could even remotely be considered “sexist”, you can’t use certain words and you have to behave a certain way around the opposite sex in public spaces and in the workplace.
Personally, I find the political correctness around gender sensitivity condescending to women: behaving in a restrained manner, not being able to have banter between the sexes and generally treating women as if they where some delicate flowers who can’t take jokes the way men do is nothing short of condescending. It is actually accentuating and implying that there are differences between what men and women can take in terms of verbal discourse.
Puh-leese. People take the mickey out of each other all the time, I do it with my friends, I do it with my colleagues. If it is done in a good hearted way, why should “gender sensitivities” come into play between men and women?
I call bullshit. Treat people like people and stop seeing peoples mental fortitude as an extension of what they received in the genitalia lottery. It’s the politically correct, gender sensitive people who are the real sexists - they think modern women aren’t strong enough to take a good joke at their own expense just like their male counterparts.
