Is There No End To This Ridiculous Political Correctness?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6288461/Kleenex-renames-Mansize-tissues-brand-extra-large-sexism-complaints.html

[youngmafbog]

haha :-) ^^

[Mamyalynne]

:-)

[anotheoldgit]

Rockrose

/// Is there really any need to get your knickers in a twist. ///

Why is it that it is only women that do?

[Mamyalynne]

Nowt worse than a reef knot in your G string.

[anotheoldgit]

jno

/// But as the tissues are not 6 foot tall and can't change fuses, the name obviously needed to be altered. ///

They are called 'MAN SIZE TISSUES' not 'MAN TISSUES', not all men are 6 foot tall and it is not only men who can change fuses, apart from the fact that tissues are not for changing fuses.

[anotheoldgit]

jno
/// if they think a product is failing to sell to women because it's got the wrong name, they'll change the name. (Easier than changing the product.) ///

Both you and Kleenex don't rate women's intelligence very high do you?

A woman would have to be pretty dim for thinking, oh those tissues seem much more better, but I better not buy them because they are labelled Man size.

[Mamyalynne]

Are you OK AOG?

[-Talbot-]

Au revoir
I may be gone a while. My crusade to change the name 'Mothercare' begins today and when I get my teeth into something I never give up.

[Mamyalynne]

You'll need a man sized shield a sharp pointy sword like what only men can have - good luck.

[sanmac]

I wonder what the future holds for this US product, will the naming become at issue?
https://www.walmart.com/browse/food/frozen-dinners-meals/hungry-man/976759_976791_1001412/YnJhbmQ6SHVuZ3J5LU1hbgieie

[anotheoldgit]

Mamyalynne

/// Are you OK AOG? ///

Since there is no reason why you should be concerned about my mental health, I take it that you are just being your usual rude self.

Please stop being so, up to now this as been a none personal thread, but if you can't help it please pick on someone else's posts, I am sure if you poke your nose into some of them you can find something to vent your rudeness on.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah and the spare-Ed just to keep up has ruled that
andtheoldgit is ageist and sexist
and he has to rename himself - " aseniorperson "
or else be BANNED !

or perhaps - if he insists on keeping the name
then he has to refer to himself as 'she' to maintain gender balance

[Canary42]

Dear AOG,

We have had several complaints about your chosen Ab name being ageist. Please change it to anotheageimmaterialgit at the earliest opportunity,

Regards,
Age-related PC Committee.

[jno]

A woman would have to be pretty dim for thinking, oh those tissues seem much more better, but I better not buy them because they are labelled Man size.

doubtless. However, changing the name of the product is also easier than instituting a programme for the mass education of women. Companies want to sell products, not waste their time arguing about the meaning of the name.

[Canary42]

SNAP! Peter

[Peter Pedant]

// there is every reason why you should be concerned about my mental health, I take it also that you are just being your usual rude and uneducated self. // [ edited to make sense]

AOG lots of people love you as you are - crabby, senile. and stuck in another age

[sanmac]

Hold on, at issue here is a tissue not the issue of AOG"s age.

[Peter Pedant]

// A woman would have to be pretty dim for thinking, oh those tissues seem much more better, but I better not buy them because they are labelled Man size. //

yeah Golda Meir (*) would have grabbed 'em wiv bofe hands and wiped other peoples faces wiv dem.

Chaim Weisman (*) referred to her in 1948 and later as the only man in his cabinet
or else de only person wiv bools

(*) Israeli politicians of yore.

[Mamyalynne]

Before you dash off your complaints about me, please state where I mentioned your mental health.

I was attempting ( failing undoubtedly ) to lighten a thread about a ridiculous state of affairs.

[Peter Pedant]

a tissu ?

no atishoo - atishoo - that is what we are discussing .....

( with thanks to Rowan Atkinson sketch - "he has no aleebee - it is a tissu of lies")