(06-21-2015 01:59 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote: I think this a perfect example where political correctness crosses into Nazi tactics, yes Goldman's now has a PC Gestapo.
Quote:Employees are being told “to help create an environment for open and honest dialogue.” The document notes descriptors such as “wife” and “boyfriend” are frowned upon, and “partner” is preferred. Not referring to your wife as your wife “offers up the opportunity for more inclusive conversations.”
Wow! So NORMAL is offensive, but using a gay word like Partner is acceptable.
(06-21-2015 07:24 PM)UCF08 Wrote: Or, you know, stop ignoring the fact it was a stupid HR memo that will be ignored by the entire corporation.
You're right. Nobody takes these things seriously.
Until someone does.
Yep, if that same memo had read "the use of "wife" and "boyfriend" are preferred over the use of "partner"", then this little ol' meaningless and ignored HR memo would have been on every news channel across the country.
(06-21-2015 01:59 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote: I think this a perfect example where political correctness crosses into Nazi tactics, yes Goldman's now has a PC Gestapo.
Quote:Employees are being told “to help create an environment for open and honest dialogue.” The document notes descriptors such as “wife” and “boyfriend” are frowned upon, and “partner” is preferred. Not referring to your wife as your wife “offers up the opportunity for more inclusive conversations.”
Wow! So NORMAL is offensive, but using a gay word like Partner is acceptable.
(06-21-2015 07:24 PM)UCF08 Wrote: Or, you know, stop ignoring the fact it was a stupid HR memo that will be ignored by the entire corporation.
You're right. Nobody takes these things seriously.
Until someone does.
Yep, if that same memo had read "the use of "wife" and "boyfriend" are preferred over the use of "partner"", then this little ol' meaningless and ignored HR memo would have been on every news channel across the country.
I hope it wouldn't, but if it did, it'd be because the media only concerns itself with what will lead to viewers, not what is legitimate news. However, wax poetic about how liberals would respond all you want, the facts are a conservative thought this was newsworthy enough to post here and plenty of conservatives here are acting as if they are victims.
(06-21-2015 01:59 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote: I think this a perfect example where political correctness crosses into Nazi tactics, yes Goldman's now has a PC Gestapo.
Quote:Employees are being told “to help create an environment for open and honest dialogue.” The document notes descriptors such as “wife” and “boyfriend” are frowned upon, and “partner” is preferred. Not referring to your wife as your wife “offers up the opportunity for more inclusive conversations.”
Wow! So NORMAL is offensive, but using a gay word like Partner is acceptable.
Seriously? You consider yourself well read and don't know that? It's been a gay word since the 1990's.
I remember running into someone I went to high school around 1990 and he introduced me to his "partner". Well not being a man of the world and never hearing partner used in that context prior to this I proceeded to unintentionally insult the guy. I replied to his introduction, nice to meet you, so you guys work together? Needless to say he cut the conversation short and appeared insulted as he walked away. It wasn't till a few years later at a class reunion that someone said he was gay I made the connection and had to laugh at what I had said to him a few years earlier.
(06-21-2015 01:59 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote: I think this a perfect example where political correctness crosses into Nazi tactics, yes Goldman's now has a PC Gestapo.
Quote:Employees are being told “to help create an environment for open and honest dialogue.” The document notes descriptors such as “wife” and “boyfriend” are frowned upon, and “partner” is preferred. Not referring to your wife as your wife “offers up the opportunity for more inclusive conversations.”
Wow! So NORMAL is offensive, but using a gay word like Partner is acceptable.
Seriously? You consider yourself well read and don't know that? It's been a gay word since the 1990's.
I remember running into someone I went to high school around 1990 and he introduced me to his "partner". Well not being a man of the world and never hearing partner used in that context prior to this I proceeded to unintentionally insult the guy. I replied to his introduction, nice to meet you, so you guys work together? Needless to say he cut the conversation short and appeared insulted as he walked away. It wasn't till a few years later at a class reunion that someone said he was gay I made the connection and had to laugh at what I had said to him a few years earlier.
Holy hell, you're literally the overbearing and homophobic father from American Beauty.
(06-21-2015 01:59 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote: I think this a perfect example where political correctness crosses into Nazi tactics, yes Goldman's now has a PC Gestapo.
Quote:Employees are being told “to help create an environment for open and honest dialogue.” The document notes descriptors such as “wife” and “boyfriend” are frowned upon, and “partner” is preferred. Not referring to your wife as your wife “offers up the opportunity for more inclusive conversations.”
Wow! So NORMAL is offensive, but using a gay word like Partner is acceptable.
Seriously? You consider yourself well read and don't know that? It's been a gay word since the 1990's.
I remember running into someone I went to high school around 1990 and he introduced me to his "partner". Well not being a man of the world and never hearing partner used in that context prior to this I proceeded to unintentionally insult the guy. I replied to his introduction, nice to meet you, so you guys work together? Needless to say he cut the conversation short and appeared insulted as he walked away. It wasn't till a few years later at a class reunion that someone said he was gay I made the connection and had to laugh at what I had said to him a few years earlier.
Holy hell, you're literally the overbearing and homophobic father from American Beauty.
You can't serious!!!! How freaking IGNORANT ARE YOU? In 1990, how many people know that Partner was code for boy/girlfriend? I laughed at what I said cause I thought it was ridiculous that he would expect that I knew what partner meant.
(This post was last modified: 06-22-2015 07:34 PM by THE NC Herd Fan.)
(06-22-2015 07:36 PM)UCF08 Wrote: It's weird that you're calling me ignorant when the entire conversation was a tongue in cheek reply to your own admission of ignorance.
I was ignorant in 1990, cause there weren't many out of the closet gays in the south so Partner in that context was new to me. I didn't laugh about my insulting him, I laughed that he thought I knew what it meant as most southerners at that time didn't.
I was really picking at Fit, who I hope was joking about partner being a gay term. If that is how gays choose to refer to their significant other fine, but I have a wife.
