The time spent on outrage is hilarious.
Outrage is over the top. I wouldn’t say outrage. But it is pretty bothersome. I don’t think you should be kept up at night by this (we certainly aren’t), but you really aren’t the least bit bothered that this is where society is? If this were one incident, it could be laughed away. But to have the general of society at large to revamp the language, walk on eggshells with every word spoken to avoid offense, to try to satisfy every group of people, no matter how small, is pretty outrageous, and is worrisome when it distracts from other priorities. Before you go saying that women aren’t a small group, I assure you that anywhere between 0 and 1 women are offended by the term “airmen.”
Again, you shouldn’t be foaming at the mouth, but you should at least be empathetic to the idea that a hypersensitive society will rightfully lead to concern by others.
Importantly, I don’t think
every example of rewording is bad; legitimate examples of
actual offensive language should be addressed. But we’re not seeing that anymore. It’s gone way off the deep end, and we’re not weird to be bothered by how far it’s gone.
