ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the utilitarian question, namely the high costs that political scientists as a political society incur on account of Political Correctness (P.C). In the many debates and discussions generated by the rise of the phenomenon of political correctness, or P.C., judgments of utility are usually absent. The debate has been carried on at an abstract level where emotional moralism confronts the rights of free speech. P.C. was more or less invented by women for women. Everyone with any visible public profile has had to pay attention to the very sensitive feelings of women. This has resulted in, for example, the nauseating regularity with which T.V. commercials depict men as stupid and incompetent and women as always cheerfully making up for men’s deficiencies, as well as the restriction of soft-core pornographic ads to displays of women ogling men. But there have been more important distortions of public discourse.
