Suicide Doors, Chinese Eye coupes, time to be more politically correct?

"MotoArigato" (MotoArigato) 09/01/2013 at 20:46 • Filed to: None

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So I've seen it more and more on car forums lately that folks are trying to eliminate use of terms that may cause offense to others, such as referring to what many of us grew up knowing as "Suicide Doors" simply "rear hinged doors" or something similar. The same goes for cars like the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III Mulliner Park Ward Drophead Coupe, aka: "Chinese Eye" coupe. Personally I am all for something that literally takes zero effort to enact, other than remembering to use the new terminology, if that means we can be even more open and embracing of people to our hobby. We all know interest in cars and car culture is on the decline whether we choose to believe it or not, so I feel we need to be as inclusive as possible, and why not, it's just being neighborly.

What's your view on this? (Please, leave any racism or hate speech at the door, that's not the point of this post.)

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. . > MotoArigato 09/01/2013 at 20:49

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How is suicide an offensive term? I refuse to change my vocabulary because some twat is easily offended. Deal with it.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > MotoArigato 09/01/2013 at 20:53

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How is "suicide doors" offensive? That sounds like somebody who is looking for things to be offended about.

Ghost Dog - For the kittens > MotoArigato 09/01/2013 at 20:53

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I've never heard the term "Chinese Eye" used for headlights. Canted is the term.

Sparf > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 09/01/2013 at 20:54

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Yeah I don't get it either.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > . . 09/01/2013 at 20:56

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Amen.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > . . 09/01/2013 at 20:57

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One of my best friend's mom committed suicide a few years ago. She tries to play it off, but you can still see her face wavering whenever she hears that word. Trust me when I say it's one of those words that you want to tiptoe around.

. . > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/01/2013 at 20:58

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My friend's little brother was killed by a dog. That doesn't suddenly make "dog" or "bite" offensive words. If it worked that way we wouldn't have any inoffensive vocabulary left to speak with.

GhostZ > MotoArigato 09/01/2013 at 21:03

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If a person could be so offended by a term that a change of order and action by a much larger group is necessary for the species as whole... then the human race would die out pretty fast when it encountered a real problem.

Words are just sounds we use to identify things. Fact of the matter is, some people can't control themselves and find it easier to change other people's actions than control their own reactions.

I'm not saying that we should offend people as often as possible, but rather than someone's happiness is contingent on their own mind and body, not on the words someone else says. The same goes for their pain and sadness. Self-control is the key to not being offended.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/01/2013 at 21:05

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My uncle who I was close with killed himself and the word doesn't have any more impact than it did before, it's a word and your friend needs to seek help because not saying a word is not going to make the hurt go away.

Squabbler > Ghost Dog - For the kittens 09/02/2013 at 02:39

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You mean Canton?

Ghost Dog - For the kittens > Squabbler 09/02/2013 at 02:46

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No, Canted. Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

Squabbler > Ghost Dog - For the kittens 09/02/2013 at 02:58

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Jokes, bro.