Absolutely true. Really, it's just become a stick with which the right thoughtlessly beats the left when it needs to find a conveniently available and low-hanging stick to do so. More or less any action which the right dislikes can be and usually is filed under "political correctness" when a deeper analysis of the offending behaviour in order to find real fault with it seems too difficult. On the whole, errors of political correctness where they do exist (and, of course, some do) are made with a good heart and are thus at least easier to forgive than errors of malice.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

So true, if only people realised how transparent it is.

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."

raw nerve........hit.

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."

Show me one post where I have done typed that about Koln station incident. You just don't like the truth. For you, " PC" is just a moniker for all those "things" you can't say.

Some of the racists and misogynists who jump to their misguided conclusions, should really not let their fingers near a keyboard.

BTW to assist you I have posted once translating the obviously incompetent Police statement from German to English (with no comment).

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."

It was me remarking on the Cologne incident, not peffers. I wasn't playing the incident down as you call it, merely stating it wasn't mass rapes (as I have written on here many times since) but some don't seem to acknowledge this fact.

The remarks were hardly 'offensive'. They were something called a 'joke'.

As for women being underrepresented in science, why on earth are we expected to be so concerned with this?

For a start, those women actually interested in being in science are doing great due to the desire of institutions to hire more women. It's actually their male peers being put at a disadvantage, simply for having the wrong genitalia.

Meanwhile, what about all those fields where men are underrepresented? For example, just about every other part of the education system.

Finally, where is the concern over the under representation of women in all the crap and dangerous jobs? I'm thinking things like cleaning sewers, rubbish collection, forestry, mining, deep sea fishing, working on oil rigs, etc.

What happened to Tim Hunt was disgusting, and it all followed a familiar pattern - e.g. as happened with that scientist who, having been put into the limelight after landing a probe on a comet, was forced to tearfully apologize for wearing a 'sexist' shirt.