British PC T.V. Scolds Ban Ads Suggesting Sex Differences In Parenting
It seems to me that this sort of thing should alarm the hell out of everyone.
I hate commercials and never watch them--in fact, JQs dad finds it annoying that we invariably mute commercials. But it's utterly mad to give the government the ability to micromanage the details of any speech in this way.
And, of course, it's not just this one thing. PC progressivism is pushing forward on--seemingly--every front. Progressive friends of mine seem inclined to simply dismiss every instance--that's NBD...that's a plausible restriction...that's aspirational...that really is a necessary corrective...and on and on and on. Somehow nothing ever seems to cause alarm...and neither does the aggregate of all the many things.
Even aside from more general concerns about speech- and thought-control, the problem seems to be (in at least one of the commercials) that the ad has the temerity to represent (in a humorous way) the fact that women tend to be better at parenting than men are. So it's the truth that is particularly offensive to cultural micromanagers.
Guess I must be the crazy one. It's either me or pretty much everybody else I know. The latter seems unlikely. Hard to believe that my craziness metric is so severely out of whack...but there it is.
I hate commercials and never watch them--in fact, JQs dad finds it annoying that we invariably mute commercials. But it's utterly mad to give the government the ability to micromanage the details of any speech in this way.
And, of course, it's not just this one thing. PC progressivism is pushing forward on--seemingly--every front. Progressive friends of mine seem inclined to simply dismiss every instance--that's NBD...that's a plausible restriction...that's aspirational...that really is a necessary corrective...and on and on and on. Somehow nothing ever seems to cause alarm...and neither does the aggregate of all the many things.
Even aside from more general concerns about speech- and thought-control, the problem seems to be (in at least one of the commercials) that the ad has the temerity to represent (in a humorous way) the fact that women tend to be better at parenting than men are. So it's the truth that is particularly offensive to cultural micromanagers.
Guess I must be the crazy one. It's either me or pretty much everybody else I know. The latter seems unlikely. Hard to believe that my craziness metric is so severely out of whack...but there it is.
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