Political Correctness in Modeling

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

 

 Here's the sad thing, schools and colleges nowadays have become more politically correct themselves, it's scary.

 

Context. A show at a hotel ballroom etc., probably unless the model is extremely distastefull, say a LED lit guy in an electric chair, good judgement is enough. German WW2 subjects at a JCC, no way.

A better term is socially correct. Society can't exist with bad behavior.

Today's definition of PC by you-know-who: don't be afraid to call the police on your neighbors if you don't like the way they look. Guys getting cardboard boxes in the mail....

I would call it being polite, not socially correct. Think good manners. One would not go into a VFW bar, start spouting off support for the nations that those vets fought against and or bad mouthing the vets or their comrades in arms actions against those coutries in battle, and not expect a harsh reaction. That would not be good manners, not would it be wise.

The neighbor thing is a whole seperate issue in today's climate and certainly treads into the realm of politics. Which I would gladly discuss with you via PM my friend.

Temujin

 

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

 

 Here's the sad thing, schools and colleges nowadays have become more politically correct themselves, it's scary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

See, this is the thing. Public places have to be PC. The volume of people makes the possibility to offend much greater. You never know what a person may be insulted by.

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Bish, your country has the great tradition of public oratory. But that occurs under very clear terms in the 1689 Bill of Rights. I think thats the right citation.

Free speech is often misunderstood, although I'm not pointing fingers.

The basic principle is that it's a human right, and the government, organization in which it occurs, or whatever, cannot inhibit that.

But it in no other way protects the speaker from the consequences of the statements they make.

Perhaps "have" is more in my mind "need", in the sense that in debate one owes their opponent the dignity to respect their point of view. Anything else can just be yelling.

I agree, it does not protect the speaker, but the poi t is they have the right to make them. And if your going to make comments in public, then you should expect others to counter them and be prepared to defend them. I agree with your previous comments about taking certain models to the JCC. One has to use common sense and give due considerations to their feeling in there place. But I would disagree with Temujin's remark that the same should apply to model show in a public place.

Yep, rules run counter to common sense.

It's very strange. I watched my parents in the 50's, the concept of freedom to make their own choices seemed second nature. Granted they were upper middle class caucasians in a progressive state.

But golly, I feel now like we are forever being hemmed in by restrictions on behavior, as if thinking is too dangerous.

So in retrospect, maybe we can all fend off those restrictions if we make better choices in how we behave.

Hands around the world to promise to respect each other.

My father is in the final stages of dementia. He's reinvented himself as his southern mothers son in 1935. It's all about manners. Nothing he says makes much sense anymore in the present, but it's a steady stream of "what brings you to these parts", or "I'd show you around but it's difficult to get up", or he introduces me to his nurses every week as "an old friend of the family".

Strong foundations.