Political correctness is ruining the English language. And it's by far the most subversive way to curtail free speech. While the state cannot tell us what we can or can't say without causing an instant uproar, the PC-police does it on a regular basis without so much as a whimper from most people. I used the word "authoress" in my Black Friday post. And then a friend pointed out that it's sexist. Indeed, the OED says, that the word is "now used only when sex is purposely emphasized". I used to think an "authoress" was a female writer. No, I didn't mean it as a sexist slight.

Recently, the LA county outlawed the use of the phrase "master/slave" for hard disk connections. I'm surprised electrical engineers are still allowed to use the "male/female" terminology for plugs and sockets. Terrorists are routinely referred to as militants. One is economically unprepared, not poor. It goes on an on.

All this is just downright stupid. Perfectly innocent words are injected with far-fetched derogatory connotations, and are henceforth politically incorrect. People should have better things to do with their time. Well, fuck that.