Ladies and Gentlemen its time to take your seats

Brilliant Elegran and shows how ludicrous all this pc is getting

Because making people comfortable is ludicrous?
Or should people only be Comfortable with “traditional” terms and ways?

Why not just accept not everyone thinks how you do, and move on?

What about if we’re going to see ‘my fair lady?’ MOr the jersey boys?’

There are a minute amount ( office of national statistics say 0.94) with gender dysmorphia.
There are 15% with severe disability affecting independent mobility.
We are changing our language and culture to facilitate 0.04% and yet the tube in our capital city is not fully accessible to 15% of the population - we still say ‘look at thus’ the blind are not offended, “did you hear?” The dear are not offended.
We have country walks, things are within walking distance, one step at a time...wheelchair users don’t insist on a change of language...so WHY are no longer to say ladies and gentlemen?
Because it’s a trend - that’s why - It’s a crazy world.

How about 'Park yer *rse!'

Since when have the minority ruled the majority? Perhaps it will just be ‘Eh, you lot, sit down now’.

GreenGran78 that's shocking!

I came across this is some loos in Australia.

What tosh! Absolute madness, this boring one size fits all, gender free rubbish!

ladles and jellyspoons.......will that do>

A man named Guy Chapman has been ordered to change his name, as it is politically incorrect.
In future he will be known as Person Personperson!

Crazy.

Quite Elcie.

So sick of the PC brigade. There are far more important issues in this world

We were much more accepting of diversity, hey Man we could all do our own thing .
Let’s campaign for a hippy revival??love & peace man !

We are all going to be to afraid to speak to each other soon for fear of causing offence.
Imagine the world in the future, it will be life imprisonment or worse, for the offence of mis- titling someone .
At least in the 60s we campaigned for & against real offences & inequalities.

Elegran has it sussed.?. And what about those of us who like to be referred to as ladies, female, women or whatever. Where’s the PC brigade to stand up for us?

Agree with Missfoodlove ie FFS!

I wonder if all this stuff is the stuff we’ll laugh about when we get our sense of humour back and our rationality. ?

Sit down and hau'd your wisht, will ye?

I fully expect it to be ‘Will you guys please take your seats! “

a joke can illustrate a point quite well
Elegran; Quite! Rude ones even betterer! We should have more around these parts, especially of your variety, but being old-fashioned I still prefer " My Lords. Ladies and Gentlemen," when I'm in the audience.
I think "Lord Rufus the 2nd." slides off the tongue very nicely What do you think? OoRoo

I suppose they could say females and males and those in between please take your seats??

Growing0ldDisgracefully Shouldn't we be complaining about the "chiefs and squaws"? Doesn't that imply that ALL males are chiefs? "Squaws and braves" would be more egalitarian.

I was once on a training course where the facilitator said using the term 'ladies ' (especially if pronouncing it 'ladeez' was an old derogatory term for prostitutes (or enthusiastic amateurs?!) and she wouldn't therefore be using it. None of us on the course had heard of this and said we weren't particularly bothered, though a few of us doubted that we could actually be considered as ladies in the polite sense of the term. Personally I agree with everyone else who feels it's all got far too PC.
Loved Elegran's post and responding to Bradfordlass, there's a chain of American-style restaurants in Devon where the toilets are designated as Chiefs and Squaws. The line from Kinky Boots is a pretty good way to sum it all up, I think!

The priest at my church always starts off by saying "My dear people."

I must say that Tane and Wahine got me very confused BradfordLass!!