A brief thought... While I agree completely with the underlying intention to remove oppressive, discriminatory and insensitive trends from our language, I think that political correctness has, itself, become a tool of a kind of counter-oppression in our society. Even if it may pale in comparison to what we have seen historically, it is a cancer that has, in effect, come to afflict the very cure and if we are not vigilant, that cancer will grow.

Every good can be twisted to ill.