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Kinda like calling people bitches? 
If you're going to insult people and demand they nonchalantly shrug it off, the least you could do is lead by example. Like, not whining about people whining about you, for example.
Seriously dude -- "Just more evidence the pc culture has us by the ovaries" ????
You are WAY missing the point of 'please don't be misogynistic.' I'm so regretting giving you the benefit of the doubt now...
For the most part political correctness is just good manners, however some folks do indeed get offended at everything.
The good thing is there is no government entity that enforces good manners, so there is in all honesty nothing stopping you from speaking your mind. The trick is you may offend someone, and everyone has different levels of how easily they are offended. So sooner or later, no matter how polite you are, you will offend someone.
Remember: Being politically correct, does not by default make you correct.
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I'm such a prick.
See 'ya.
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Asked by a journalist how women could protect themselves, Henriette Reker said: “There’s always the possibility of keeping a certain distance of more than an arm’s length – that is to say to make sure yourself you don’t look to be too close to people who are not known to you, and to whom you don’t have a trusting relationship”.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/cologne-attacks-mayor-women-keep-men-arms-length-germany
With reasonable adherents like these folks, it's a mystery why PC is so unpopular.
Although not taught in American learning institutions and literature, it is noted in most Black history professional circles and literature that the origin of the term "picnic" derives from the acts of lynching African-Americans. The word "picnic" is rooted from the whole theme of "Pick A N****r." This is where individuals would "pic" a Black person to lynch and make this into a family gathering. There would be music and a "picnic." ("Nic" being the white acronym for "n****r."
Scenes of this were depicted in the movie "Rosewood."
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Specious etymologies seem to be all the rage of late, and this dubious claim about 'picnic' fits that trend. You'll be heartened to know 'picnic' has nothing to do with crowds gathering to witness the lynching of blacks (or anyone else, for that matter) in America.
'Picnic' began life as a 17th-century French word: it wasn't even close to being an American invention. A 1692 edition of Origines de la Langue Françoise de Ménage
mentions 'piquenique' as being of recent origin and marks the first appearance of the word in print. As for how the French came by this new term, it was likely invented by joining the common form of the verb 'piquer' (meaning "to pick" or "peck"
with 'nique,' possibly either a Germanic term meaning "worthless thing" or merely a nonsense rhyming syllable coined to fit the first half of this new palate-pleaser.
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Meanwhile, things are not peachy on the campus of SUNY/Albany. The university wanted to honour baseball legend Jackie Robinson by having a picnic. But the university's equity office said this must not occur because the word "picnic" referred originally to gatherings held to lynch Blacks. In fact, as one of their own English professors (rather less committed to historical revisionism than RMC's Dr. Robinson) pointed out, the word "picnic" actually comes from a 17th-century French word that denotes a party at which everyone brings food. But Zaheer Mustafa, the equity officer, nevertheless decreed that "picnic" not be used because "the point is — the word offends." So the university decided to call it an "outing." Then, homosexual students took objection to that, and SUNY decided to publicize the event without using any noun to describe it.
http://www.snopes.com/language/offense/picnic.asp
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