WE will do so next time in Australia! Thanks for your comments!

Ray

As always, #loveyorwork

Here in Australia simply change the word to “wee” and Australians will love this.

Tailoring the message to your audience is always vital for credibility, which you’ve demonstrated here by consulting the community for their opinions. Well done.

Pee itself is not an offensive word. If it were, it wouldn’t be one of the first words we teach our children and it wouldn’t be one of the most-used words in conversations with our children for the first few years of their lives.

For this audience, I figure they deal with bodily fluids and bodily functions all day, every day. (But maybe I should change “pee” to “urinate.”)

That said, I’m mystified about why taking this route in, out and around “pee” has appeal for you in the first place. I’ve always known you to want to communicate — and to do that well. I think you often take the high road in doing that vs…well, the “not that.”

So — with all your ingenuity and your demonstrated, world-wide commitment to elevate social media to an art form, is this your best vehicle to forward the understanding of it?

The first of those could be applicable, your slide causes institutional offense in an occupational context, but I would argue that the other types of offense are more important to consider with regards to the phrase political correctness. Wikipedia goes on to say that the phrase is primarily used as a pejorative today, but I would argue that it is only Occupational Offense where that might be appropriate. All the other contexts listed speak to situations where something is politically incorrect because it is offensive to the (generally) least powerful people in society: people with disabilities, queer people, ethnic or racial minorities. In those contexts, it is clearly unjust and wrong to be Politically Incorrect, I would argue.

It is only when tweaking the noses of propriety in an occupational context that Political Correctness takes the form of bottom-up offensiveness, rather than top down re-enforcement of social injustices.

Therefor I think it’s best to kick the occupational context out of the definition of Political Correctness, to instead understand occupational offense as subversiveness, and save the phrase Politically Incorrect for its original intention: defense against injustice of marginalized people.

Ok, after all that I gotta run and go pee now

For a five year old – here’s a primer on how to use Social Media today.