A Voice of Sanity

Apparently Prince Harry is expected to be as dull, boring and politically correct as his father. So says the media, in any case, as well as the folks who find offense in everything under the sun. Interesting, then, that the BBC should actually publish this article. Hats off to Sunny Hundal for calling it like it is.

'Offensive if used with malice'

And by the way, any word that is deemed offensive and is genuinely used with malice can easily be diffused if the object or target of the offense simply turns it into a joke. Take the word. Start using it as if it's not offensive. Normalize it. Works every time.

I've been around long enough to witness a long string of supposedly offensive words be replaced with other words in an attempt to launder the offensive sting from them. It never works. The characteristic that makes the word offensive resides in the thing (people, disease, physical or mental abnormality or whatever), not in the word used to name it. Simply changing the name does not change the cultural perception of the "thing", whether or not it's fair and just.

As far as I'm concerned, the prince with the ginger pubes was simply doing what comrades in arms, or any other "band of brothers" do, when hanging out with each other. To those with the more "exaggerated ego" needs who find offense in any thing and everything, I have just one thing to say.

Get. A. Life.