[ “I discovered that she [Professor Sharoni] had not grown up in either the U.S. or U.K. — where saying “ladies’ lingerie” in an elevator is a well-known gag line — so I explained in the same email the meaning of my remark and how it was in no way directed against women. ]
That’s correct. We did that joke in the elevator way back in the 1980’s. And I’m sure somebody was using it before then. Political-Correctness will be the death of the Western World.
>> Political-Correctness will be the death of the Western World.<<
George Carlin once described PC as “America’s newest form of intolerance.”