I am not Politically Correct. Oh, I don’t use inappropriate slang words for people of different races, ethnics, gender, or religions. My mother told me when I was a kid to treat everybody the same. Apparently several million peoples’ mothers didn’t teach them correctly. The Declaration of Independence says all MEN are created equal (they didn’t mean women?) and the Constitution counted “three-fifths of all other persons (read slaves). Many of the amendments have tried to equalize the inequality (equal rights amendment for women has failed.) So, white men are still at the top of the heap.

Most Americans try not to intentionally offend others but in today’s climate, who knows what is okay. It seems a man can’t mention a woman’s lack of tan lines when she wears a backless dress or even say she looks great in that dress. Hugs are out and so is a pat on the back.

I think gender PC has gone way over the top. Women hug each other and men but if a man hugs a woman it’s harassment. One of the women complaining about Morgan Freeman’s behavior said on a TV news program “Mr. Freeman said I looked sexy in that dress.” Is it now wrong to compliment someone’s appearance? Are compliments now harassment?

I worked in many jobs (I would have said positions but that might not be PC!) and with many women and I only know of only one harassment. It was another supervisor who kept hitting on a woman in his group so she asked to work for me and that stopped it. Fishing off the company pier today is grounds for a harassment charge.

Have we gone so far from sanity that walls need to be built around each of us? Accusing someone of something they think occurred years or even decades ago is ridiculous. Times have changed! What was commonplace thirty years ago may have been wrong then but being penalized now is wrong, wrong, wrong. Many countries have had a reconciliation time to overcome murders and kidnapping, why can’t we forgive and forget old harassments?