Political correctness struck again. The language vigilantes have now attacked "pillow fight."
POLITICO Playbook of 12/20/2019 explains how it came about:
Good Friday morning. GLAAD sent us a note yesterday about Playbook PM, noting that our use of “pillow fight” when describing a fight between Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren may have offended people. That was not our intent -- pillow fight, in our mind, connotes a fight where no one draws blood.
-- Drew Anderson from GLAAD explains his view: “For women and LGBTQ people at the workplace, hearing phrases like ‘dramatic,’ ‘over the top,’ and even ‘pillow fight’ during office disagreements fosters negative stereotypes and diminishes a person simply because of who they are. Disagreements happen in politics, but using these loaded terms during disputes feed into the sexist and homophobic tropes that simply have no place in our political coverage and rhetoric.”
So phrases like "pillow fight," "dramatic," and "over the top" foster negative stereotypes during office disagreements?
Emily Jashinsky probably sums up most people's reaction in GLAAD Deems ‘Pillow Fight’ Offensive Language:
What seems more offensive is the implication that grown adults are so psychologically frail they would feel “diminishe[d]” on the basis of their sex or sexual orientation by reading the term “pillow fight” in a perfectly appropriate context.
What they are saying is if you disagree with me, just shut the f___ up.
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10:52 AM 12/29/2019
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