Explaining myself...

I say I'm declaring war on the "politically correct and intellectually inept" and I'd like to explain why. I work for the state retirement system in the records department. As of late my main job has been data entry. Entering the beneficiaries for our members should they die with money in their account. Well the most common person to put is your spouse, either your husband or wife, depending. Almost no one lists this person as their husband or wife, they usually put spouse, which I think is sad. I don't want to be my husband's spouse, I want to be his beautiful wife. This is a direct effect of everyone trying to be politically correct and not wanting to offend anyone. (eg Is a wife as good as a husband? I don't know, so we shall all just lose our gender and be a spouse.)
The intellectually inept portion comes from the fact that 20% or so of these individuals who have spouses, list them as their spouce. Oy. I don't know what that is, and frankly I don't want to know. What I do want to know is, what makes these people use a word that they can't spell, over a simple word they've been taught since elementary school? And why is this acceptable? These are state employees mind you. The people running our government offices and our schools!
Thus I declare war. I realize I have no authority to do this, nor will this war ever be won, much like the war on drugs or the war on terrorism. The reason for this is simple. There will always be someone somewhere dealing. There will always be someone somewhere plotting an attack. And there will always be a society where it is expected of us to be politically correct and acceptable to be intellectually inept.
And I'm grateful I live here. So I can write a blog about how much it bothers me.