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In Reply to: a-ha posted by porceleindoll on November 28, 2002 at 19:35:39:
during the 80s which is about the era when this term first came into use, during the conservative Reagan years. "Handicapped" was out, in was "disabled person", and that was replaced by "----- challenged." In the media, script writers had to give their articles to PC-scientists for approval. This is still done to this day, and hardly a politician does not get regular coaching and screening for un-PC slip-ups. It got to a point you couldn't call anyone bald, that was swopped for "folicly challenged." Nobody was greedy/fat but had eating/weight disorders. You couldn't joke about epileptic fits anymore. You couldn't pull racial jokes. So naturally there was a backlash. It's pretty much impossible to have humor without being un-PC. It's good to have sensitivity, but to the point you can't have humor, especially if it is about yourself.
