Back in 1990 while working for a large, hyper-sensitive company in NJ, I was researching some third party computer hardware and mentioned the master\slave configuration of the various components in a presentation. Later my boss explained I should not be using that term because I could offend some of my co-workers.
I predict someday the words master, slave, noose, etc. will all be cleansed from our language and will probably be a punishable crime if used. BTW, how does Mark Twain still get away with it?
Obviously they weren't. That's why you never hear the Bowlderizers demanding the "n word" be excised and replaced with a more polite term. At the same time, now that they're all Democrats, they're just as happy to have the whole book banned.
That's what Democrats do you know. Just censor everything. Send your doctor to jail. Make your babies learn to smoke.
Well talk about offensive.
Here's a one male to two female adapter.
Kinda gets the imagination going...
In 1999, one John Elijah sued Microsoft over a photo included in Publisher 98's clip art gallery of a black couple in a park next to a set of monkey bars. Among the eighteen tags associated with the image was 'monkey bars'. If you searched the gallery for 'monkey', you got that photo along with several showing real live monkeys. Elijah wanted $75,000, and his lawyer wanted to bring a class action.
The William E. Proudford Sickle Cell Fund had better watch it. They used this here boy_monkeybars.jpg to decorate their board of directors biographies page:
He doesn't. Every year you can read about school districts and cities that want to ban his books from libraries and required reading lists, replacing them with the works of Maya Angelou.
Mark