08-11-2008, 06:10 AM
Quote:...some sports only a purist could love. (Like Fencing - its the kind of sport that on paper should be cool, but darned if I can tell who scored and who didn't during the milliseconds each point seems to last) ...That's because Olympic fencing is so far devolved from classical sword tournament and technique that it has become, literally, an exercise to see who wiggles their metal whip past the other guy's first.
Political Correctness is the idea that you can foster tolerance in a diverse world through the intolerance of anything that strays from a clinical standard.