Politically Correct Terms

New Official Politically Correct Terms for the 90's

OLD -- NEW

• conservative -- reactionary
• the establishment -- white power elite
• hearing person -- temporarily aurally abled
• sighted person -- temporarily visually abled
• blind -- visually challenged
• mute -- vocally challenged
• deaf -- aurally challenged
• dead -- metabolically different
• alive -- temporarily metabolically abled
• ugly -- aesthetically challenged
• fat -- gravitationally challenged
• heavy-set -- people of mass
• rude -- politically correct
• psychopath -- socially misaligned
• crooked -- ethically challenged
• klutzy -- kinesthetically challenged
• bald -- follicularly challenged
• short -- differently statured
• non-white, non-male oppressed -- white melanin impoverished / genetically oppressive
• white male -- oppressor
• black -- african-american
• asian -- asian-american
• afro-american -- african-american
• minority group -- numerically challenged group; under-represented population
• black -- person of color
• Chicano -- person of color
• weird green freak -- person of color
• female -- person of gender
• drooling drunk idiot -- person on floor
• group of blacks -- Under-Represented population of persons of color
• Group of Whites -- L.A.P.D.
• woman -- womyn
• women -- wymin
• girl -- pre-womyn
• man -- oppressor
• boy -- oppressor-to-be
• pregnancy -- parasitic oppression
• janitor -- sanitation engineer
• disabled car -- mechanically challenged car
• dish washer -- utensil sanitizer
• dairy -- where cows are raped
• ranch -- where cattle are murdered
• egg ranch -- where hens are raped
• biology department -- where animals are tortured and then murdered to fulfill the sadistic fantasies of white male scientist lackeys of the imperialist drug companies
• fishing -- raping the oceans
• farming -- exploiting mother earth
• nhl hockey -- uniformed fascists vying for superiority
• paper bag -- processed tree carcass

Many of the labels from the 80's are now passe. Here is a partial list of the denotations that are now acceptable (all labels are subject to change without notice).

old 80's/90's

• deaf/hearing impaired/aurally challenged
• blind /sight impaired/visually challenged
• retarded/mentally handicapped/mentally challenged
• queer/gay/homosexual/queer (strange but true)
• fat/big boned/alternative body image