Politically Correct

What the hell is this?  Since when did I need a 'tick' to tell me how to speak and how to speak correctly?  By the way I am waiting on a copy of the dictionary.  In actuality, I am sick and tired of the term and someone else telling me how I should speak!  Two things I grew up with, the Golden Rule and the knowledge I had better have enough 'lead' in my ass to back up anything I said or wrote!

For the most part, I am respectful of others. You are either a Lady or a Gentleman, not a Gentle Person.  That is something we should all be, a gentle person.  I want to know if I am going to be fishing with a fisherman or a fisher woman.  How the hell else do I know whether to bring beer or wine?

It seems to me that being told how and what to say is just a wee bit controlling and in violation of the First Amendment here in the States.  Not to mention the vast amount of money getting this 'term' publicized enough to get it to take hold.  Come on, how much money and effort could have been saved by enforcing the Golden Rule and common sense?  To think it would have been so far reaching and not near so complicated!