Re: PC in in ASR, WTF? (was:Re: Meetings are for what?)

"Maarten Wiltink" <maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

So where the hell is the offense?

I'm wondering myself. I object to "bound to a wheelchair" or "confined
to a wheelchair" because they're so wrongly descriptive, not because
they personally offend me. (Or, for those of you who apparently can't
comprehend my objections without believing this is all about me being
offended, think of it as that they offend me because they're wrong.)

It was explicitly (well, obliquely
perhaps) my point that The Other Steve not only uses a chair, but is
unable to get up from it at will. So I used a term you don't like in
general. I used it in specifics.

Unless actual ropes or restraints are involved, I still say that "bound
to a wheelchair" is not the right phrase to use. Similarly unless there
is a guard standing by ensuring that the person does not get out of the
wheelchair, "confined to a wheelchair" is not the right phrase to use.

If you're talking about someone who lacks the strength or coordination
to easily move about on their own, then would you say they are "bound to
a bed" or "bound to a bathtub" or "bound to the floor" if that's where
they happen to be at the time? If not, why say "bound to a wheelchair"?
At least a powered wheelchair gives them more freedom to move themselves
about. They're less "bound" in the wheelchair than they are anywhere
else.

And what exactly have I refused to believe that you actually think?

As I recall you kept trying to insist "I'm not talking about you, Steve"
even after I said I didn't think you were and that my point had nothing
to do with whether there was any intent to use the phrase to describe
me.

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