[aldente]

What it would take for the American public to start paying attention to the grave energy issues coming down at us? James Kunstler answered, speaking figuratively, a bitch-slap upside the head. This offended some female listeners in the audience.

Are somebody's (anybody's) personal feelings more important than the substance of any expression, and are somebody's (anybody's) hurt feelings grounds for shutting down the expression, and the discussion that goes with it? http://kunstler.com/mags_diary13.html

[NevadaGhosts]

Many Americans today are highly offended, politically correct spineless techno wimps. I wonder how much peak oil will offend and scare them in the future.

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NevadaGhosts', 'M')any Americans today are highly offended, politically correct spineless techno wimps. I wonder how much peak oil will offend and scare them in the future.

[CarnbY]

Yeah, it seems like becoming offended is a hobby for a lot of people over there, it's pathetic...

[aldente]

PO is not present in the European media either, since it offends people just as much

[killJOY]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'i')t seems like becoming offended is a hobby

[CarnbY]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('albente', 'P')O is not present in the European media either, since it offends people just as much

[aldente]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('CarnbY', 'A')re you saying that PO is not in the media in Europe because of fear of offending people?

[RonMN]

A good Bitch-slap upside the head would take a 1-2 punch!

1) A 2 or 3 day power outtage (nation wide).

2) The prez. to come on the tube & say "expect alot MORE power outtages"!!!

That would wake up a person or 2!!!

[Zok]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('albente', '
')
Are somebody's (anybody's) personal feelings more important than the substance of any expression, and are somebody's (anybody's) hurt feelings grounds for shutting down the expression, and the discussion that goes with it?

[cube]

When PO hits I think we're all going to wish it was nothing but

"a bitch-slap upside the head"

instead it's going to be the equivalent of getting "bent over".

[killJOY]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'a') cavalier reference to physical abuse towards women can further any cause.

[bobcousins]

I know somone who teaches at a US university and he reports big problems with hyper-sensitive "femi-nazis", who jump on seemingly innocuous statements of fact and construe them as some sort of montrous slander on whatever group they feel they speak for - its not just feminists, but other social lobby groups.

However they do have a point. Despite what people say, they are influenced by sterotypes and prejudice expressed by those around them. If you constantly refer to certain groups in derogatory terms then people's attitudes to that group will be affected.

So if women don't like being referred to as bitches I am quite happy to use whatever term they prefer. There are plenty of neutral alternatives to the offending term. What is wrong with the simple alternatives "a slap in the face?", "kick in the butt" etc.

[AlCzervik]

He should have said that ho, mother nature, is going to slap us all upside the head. Maybe those PC freaks would have liked that better.

[holmes]

[expletive] the prix. LOL. O my god the whole society is bunk. They will allow anything that makes cash. But saying a swear word is sacriledge unless you are making big cash for the machine. You have to understand these filthy capitalists and communists or whatever. If it makes $ it is lauded and fine. if it doesnt. witch hunt. The indians talked about this way back. Its just old hat. actually many would sell out there own blood for cash White capitalist culture. Its just all colors now. Get rid of the tribal code. This is what you have instead. I say kill them all when the tiem comes. Im ready to pile some bodies. [expletive] em.

(edited for profanity- KiddieKorral)

[BiGG]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('albente', 'W')hat it would take for the American public to start paying attention to the grave energy issues coming down at us?

[oowolf]

Aleric the P.O. Goth is banging at the gates while the P.C. zombies are offended by slanguage or a few seconds of electronically exposed tit. I suppose these are the same consumeroids whose computers/SUV's/etc, etc, are destroying the Earth.
What do you expect of the honky-death culture? (It's OK to dramatise murder in every imaginable form on the electronic Colisuem but show a person being conceived--Horror!!!!!!!
What a feast of irony & sarcasm my existence is..
(pardon my grammatically challenged termination)

[accept_death]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bobcousins', 'S')o if women don't like being referred to as bitches I am quite happy to use whatever term they prefer. There are plenty of neutral alternatives to the offending term. What is wrong with the simple alternatives "a slap in the face?", "kick in the butt" etc.