When will this PC nonsense end?

Zorya wrote: »

Nudes are not porn. Why should freedom of artistic expression be only permitted to transgender people?

how is any of this artistic freedom?

That will NOT include female nipples in general, unless they are actively involved in breast-feeding or medical examination, nor the healthy genitalia of biological men or women, but the new terms and conditions will permit images (and presumably gifs and videos) of the results of gender confirmation surgery, including nipples, pre- and post-operative I suppose because otherwise how can one make a display of such things, and I presume the results of a phalloplasty. The whole phalloplasty display has been quite a significant niche on Tumblr.

Zorya wrote: »

Simple question - why allow trans nudes and not biological sex nudes?

I cannot even get how anyone would not find that weird.

Because as you said yourself one is in a medical context and the other is not.

It has nothing to do with offence and everything to do with people that hate who they are and just want to change the world so at least before they die they can look back and say to themselves "I did that..." meanwhile the rest of us just get on with our lives and put up with these stupid vanity campaigns when they pop up and wonder what the next one will be.

Deleted User wrote: »

What about describing this suspect’s accent. If he had, eg, a strong Dublin accent, this would be said. Why not mention his accent?

Because outside of a few core accents, most people wouldn't have a clue what a "Pakistani" accent is versus a "Persian" one. Or a "Japanese" accent versus a "Chinese" one.

The majority of people in Ireland would recognise Dublin, Cork, Kerry, "Nordie", "British", Scottish, French, "American", "Russian" and German. Outside of that it starts getting fluffy.

What difference does it make? The wrong information makes it less likely you'll catch him. People will make up their own minds about ambiguous descriptors. Remember the Simpsons;
"Be on the lookout for a 1936 maroon Stutz Bearcat!"
"Ehh, that was really more of a burgundy."

For example, imagine they said he had an Indian accent. You work in a coffee shop, and a guy comes in every day who is a dead ringer for this picture. But you know he's from Iran. So it can't be him, because he's not Indian.

Likewise, the amount of people on this thread remarking, "Why won't they say he's black!?"

Because he's not. If you say he's black, then I immediately picture a guy of African origin. A guy with dark, dark skin. Not this guy, who is "tanned", from my point of view. If they said "He's black", then that's less helpful than saying nothing.

Descriptions of individuals need to be as unambiguous as possible. He may not have talked at all, or the victim may not have been able to place his accent. So taking a stab at it is less helpful than saying nothing about it.

The (original) description also didn't mention glasses. Is this because they don't want to offend the short-sighted? No, it's because, "wears glasses" may mean a lot of things to a lot of people. The Evofit is a million times more useful than ambiguous descriptions.

Dr Strange wrote: »

I wonder did they mix up the meaning of sallow with swarthy?

:D
Regional variations. "Sallow" has always been used in Ireland to refer to skin which is closer to a Spanish complexion (not dark dark, but not pasty white either), as opposed to the typical meaning which is "sickly yellow".
Likewise I've only ever heard Irish people use "swarthy" to describe a man's attitude more than his appearance. A swarthy man is well-dressed, silver-tongued and out to seduce women.

You think it's bad today.... back in the 1970's we had the conversion from pounds shilling and pence, to decimal, imperial measurement to metric, as well as the gradual emergence of gender equality and political correctness.

As a result, a mate in school called Myles Merriman, had his name changed to Kilometers Happyperson as a joke - and it stuck. For many years he was known as 'Kilometers' by those of us who grew up through the changes.

True story.

nullzero wrote: »

Surely gingerbread men are offensive to ginger people?

Ginger is the spice used in the biscuit not the colour. :rollseyes:

Zorya wrote: »

This guy totally gets pre menstrual tension. I sympathise. Call me Ma'am, Motherflupper!!!! :mad:

https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1078692301344518146

I hope that aggressive asshole didn't get the poor kid fired.