Professionalism, and standards of behavior and maturity?
Isn't that the exact same reasons given by pointy haired managers against wearing jeans at work?
That is not professionalism, that is giving the appearance of a "professional" to people who don't know any better.
Professionalism lies in being honest with your clients, delivering, and keeping the standards of quality of your trade (IT in our case), not of the jokes you tell.
And it's funny how, say, Star Wars jokes would have been totally fine with the audience, but a reference to tits and the gates of hell open. Again, "professionalism" is not what's under attack here, it's the prudes.
"""Because there is nothing here about political correctness. This is about professionalism, consideration, and maturity."""
Are you under the impression that if you repeat a sentence two or more times, you make it an argument? This is exactly what you wrote in your opening paragraph, and you failed to give any justification.
So, I insist: this is all about "political correctness" --and the fact that you invoke "consideration", " standards of behavior" and "maturity" only gives this more credit. Isn't PC a set of "standards of behavior" that are all about "consideration"?
As for the "Additionally, the term "politically correct" is used as a pejorative these days, so it's of little value" argument, I can't even begin to describe how lame it is.
"""Please take your attitude back to Reddit."""
I've never been a Reddit member, and I don't define myself as a HN member either, it's just a page I read.
What are you, fifteen years old (mentally), to define yourself by some site you frequent?
And you were ranting about "professionalism" earlier? Right.
Isn't that the exact same reasons given by pointy haired managers against wearing jeans at work?
That is not professionalism, that is giving the appearance of a "professional" to people who don't know any better.
Professionalism lies in being honest with your clients, delivering, and keeping the standards of quality of your trade (IT in our case), not of the jokes you tell.
And it's funny how, say, Star Wars jokes would have been totally fine with the audience, but a reference to tits and the gates of hell open. Again, "professionalism" is not what's under attack here, it's the prudes.
"""Because there is nothing here about political correctness. This is about professionalism, consideration, and maturity."""
Are you under the impression that if you repeat a sentence two or more times, you make it an argument? This is exactly what you wrote in your opening paragraph, and you failed to give any justification.
So, I insist: this is all about "political correctness" --and the fact that you invoke "consideration", " standards of behavior" and "maturity" only gives this more credit. Isn't PC a set of "standards of behavior" that are all about "consideration"?
As for the "Additionally, the term "politically correct" is used as a pejorative these days, so it's of little value" argument, I can't even begin to describe how lame it is.
"""Please take your attitude back to Reddit."""
I've never been a Reddit member, and I don't define myself as a HN member either, it's just a page I read.
What are you, fifteen years old (mentally), to define yourself by some site you frequent?
And you were ranting about "professionalism" earlier? Right.