h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Oh my. Remember these things? A 10-hour car ride concentrates the thinking wonderfully. Well, I was just thinking that going out of your way to be as inoffensive as possible is just silly. I mean, why not just not deliberately insult anyone, and do your very best to make amends when you slip up? I mean, political correct titles, such as "vertically-challenged," just sound silly. Especially if the people the labels are being applied to really don't mind whatever they were called before. Not that I'm saying no one is offended ever, but it's a possibility that names that sound offensive to outsiders really don't offend the recipients of said names. If a species of aliens came to Earth and they had never known prejudice of any sort, we would seem pretty darned silly to them, dancing out of the way of anything that could seem a tiny bit offensive. Take the use of the word "he" to mean "any human". This wouldn't be considered sexist if no one had said in the first place 'Hey, that's not fair!'. I think that just using 'he' as a generic term, as opposed to 'he/she' as a generic term, is much easier. Of course, it would really be easier to use 'it' or 'them,' but the latter is not proper grammar and the former has nonhuman connotations, which it wouldn't if no one considered it to imply non-humanity. What I'm getting at is that prejudice is stupid and trying to dance around and sound as unprejudiced as possible is even stupider, in many cases. Prejudice is stupid, but some of the methods of getting rid of it seem even stupider. Do I seem callous and inhumane here? I hope I don't. But, then, I've got no great pride in being female, or a member of the human species. I don't have any pride whatsoever in belonging to any kind of group. I belong to no religion that's established; though my family claims I'm Unitarian Universalist, I'm nothing of the sort. I'm not patriotic in any way; in fact I think the US could do with a good shaking up. I'm... weird. Can anyone help me explain it? I need a shrink.

And on that note, I end and wait for my friends to come to the rescue. And kill typos.

No one's answered?

Traveller in Time on his shoulder
"Well actually I read the first lines, then I lost the story.
Perhaps some markup would do any good for the readability ?

But are we not all? Dropped into this existance, not even the single chiose of where we have to live or what gender we have? Enjoy, make of it what is in it, spend as much time 'productive' as 'wasted' by just enjoying life.

Perhaps that is an art, and we have to learn to find the balance.
And I am sure you will manage. "

*sigh* Well, these... rants are typed without the monitor turned on and then I don't do any editing except killing typos, but I suppose paragraphs wouldn't hurt. Thank you for noticing me.

Sometimes political correctness does get somewhat at times. I guess I have an 'equal but different' attitude to it all; every group/individual/whatever has their importance but for different reasons. This posting might have made sense if I'd had enough sleep

Aww. Thanks for reading and replying, and do get some sleep.

I'm starting to sound like Nick!

I'll get some sleep in February

Why, what happens in February?

Nothing much, hence why I'll get some sleep

Unc.

well, it's true

Better get some sleep now though, night Esty