KHRC: Stop saying 'whip'.. It's 'riding crop' now.

[docicu3]

The riding crop thing is a beauty though. Personally I wouldnt mind if they went to the softer whips but the whole idea that we wont call them whips anymore is either hilarious or frightening depending on the way you look at it.[/quote]


Another example of Politically Correct terminology being used to embelish the truth as if that made it somehow different if we called it something else.

"Freedom Fries" courtesy of the G W Bush led House of Reps and Robert Ney, I think, was responsible for making French Fries, Freedom Fries in some eating establishments in DC. Maybe they could whip up ......I mean "crop" up some Freedom Toast for breakfast this morning.....

[Pedigree Ann]

Actually, they haven't been whips for a long time, since they don't have lashes at the end like a whip. Riders probably stopped using real whips about the same time as they stopped wearing spurs. (You think whips are bad? When jocks rode upright instead of aerodynamically, spurs that regularly drew blood were an important part of the jock's equipment.) Jockeys have been carrying crops for years and calling them whips; why not be accurate? Especially since 'whipping' has so many negative connotations.