Euphemisms

"He threw in his towel." "She is a working girl." "I think we should see other people." Euphemisms. Why is it that when we talk, we use them? Why do we feel it necessary to hint around something instead of just coming out and saying it? Why do we feel the need to make someone feel better, or want to look out for someone else's feelings when talk. Why is everything politically correct?

Most people might use the above phrases in a semi-formal situation or conversation. While watching a rerun of "Full House" in my girlfriends room today, I heard DJ say to a boyfriend (supposedly her "...first love...") "I think we should see other people." On that show, everything seems to be fake. But this circumstance is unfortunatly real. People always want to look out for the other persons feelings, and frankly that sickens me.

I think being politically correct is dumb. Watching out for someone else's feelings, so they live in a dream world isn't reality. Why tell something one way, when really, it's quite another? I believe I would rather be told that my grandmother died, than be told, and I quote, "...passed on to a better place." Now, no offense to anyone who has lost a loved one, but sugar coating a death doesn't make that person come back. Death is a hard time for everyone, and it sure as hell isn't sugar coated, so why even try? I think this world should be more politically un-correct so that people will wake up one day and realize, that sometimes things aren't ok, and you can't just go to bed and sleep it all away.

I think way to many people live in dream worlds. I also think that we support living in a place where everything is happy and bunnies hop around and butterflies swing by your ears and land softly on your shoulders, because of euphemisms. Saying something politely is always appreciated, but "beating around the bush" is very, very agitating.