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I’ve been thinking about this term “politically correct”.  I think it’s stupid.  Oops, was that an impoliticly correct statement to make?  Is that what it takes to be p.c., being inauthentic to oneself and to the world just because someone might take offense?  Oh, let me add a word to that last sentence…”because someone might choose to take offense?”  Lord!  What are we as a society doing really?  In a world so full of diagnosis for our neurosis, do we not see that what we are really doing is enabling one another to be a victim?  Yes, that’s right a victim.  When one chooses to be offended, one is choosing to be wronged, singled out.  I’m not saying that this is the case all the time.  For example, should one come up to another and outright insult he or she (in an effort to be p.c., I’ll be sure not to exclude either gender)… (Do I really need to illustrate, c’mon, we know when an insult is an insult)…the insulted party has a right to stand up for he or her self!  But, why can’t I just say it like I feel it?  Why must I be so worried about the sensitivities of another that what I want to really say becomes more a struggle to please people’s listening than what I am authentically feeling?