Thursday, October 14, 2010

Too soon for PC?

There are those who are into "political correctness" just for the sake of it. There are those who don't give a care. We fall in the middle, not obsessing but trying to be polite and gracious and all that good stuff.

But I think my early lessons in political correctness are lost on Hope. A couple of weeks ago we were talking about Pocahontas. Hope called her an Indian over and over again, and finally I explained that we should call Pocahontas a Native American. Hope just looked at me like I was confused.

Today I asked Hope if she noticed that woman in Target who only had one leg. Here's how that conversation went.

Hope: Mo-om! People have TWO legs!
Me: Usually they do, but some people only have one. And some people don't have any!
Hope: [long pause, big eyes, small mouth] Do they just roll around?!

Maybe I'll be glad we had this conversation the next time we see someone with less than two legs. Maybe I won't be!

2 comments:

amy@flexibledreams said...

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Corinne said...

Hilarious! Hope's comment totally made me think of Weebles (you know, "weebles wobble but they don't fall down") Ha!