
Entdeckt in der Mayerschen Buchhandlung. © Franz Wittkamp, "Die schönste Zeit".



Die Wahrheit ist: Political Correctness ist super, weil sie dazu führt, dass weniger Leute diskriminiert werden. Das führt zu einem besseren und angenehmeren Zusammenleben für alle und macht die Welt zu einem besseren Ort. So einfach ist das. Darum ist jeder, der das N-Wort verteidigt, rassistisch. So einfach ist das. Jeder, der „schwul“ als Schimpfwort benutzt, ist homophob. So einfach ist das. Ja, auch wenn man es „nicht so meint“.
Und manchmal ist es tatsächlich okay, Kommentare im Internet zu lesen, denn als Reaktion auf Rudi Lux schreibt map:
Der “Ami” scheint da ein bisschen in Kategorien der Siebziger zu denken. Neue Linke und so. Ich nehme Daniels Text als Aufruf sich den Begriff neu anzueignen nach dem er seit den Neunzigern zunehmend von recht-konservativen Stimmen als Kampfbegriff vereinnahmt wurde. Das finde ich gut, auch wenn es mich in deinen Augen zu einem “Deppen” macht.Und genau das ist für mich die Essenz des Textes.





July 2010. It is three weeks before the first series of Sherlock broadcasts on BBC1, and show-runners Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss are panicking. The BBC have suddenly brought forward the slot for their show 'by a substantial amount'. As summer is already a difficult time to launch a show, Gatiss and Moffat are bewildered as to how they will promote it.Und deshalb verstehe ich Menschen nicht, die Twitter nicht verstehen.
'We were sitting around with our heads in our hands,' Steven Moffat remembers, 'going, "There isn't enough time to do this. It will broadcast to no one."'
This is when they joined Twitter.
'It was really only one step up from individually knocking on people's doors and shouting "Sherlock is coming!" through their letterboxes,' Mark Gatiss explains. 'We were almost ... desperate.'
'What did we think we'd get?' Moffat muses.
'Four million viewers,' Gatiss replies. 'Four million viewers, tops, and a couple of nice broadsheet write-ups. That was our best-case scenario.'
On the night the debut episode – 'A Study in Pink' – went out, the core cast and crew assembled at Steven Moffat's house, in Kew, to watch it, in a state of nervous tension.
Gathered around the wine – 'a lot of wine' – were Martin Freeman (Dr Watson), Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock Holmes), Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue, the show's producer. [...]
In the event, when Sherlock began, the Moffat party had to immediately pause it, as Benedict Cumberbatch still hadn't arrived.
'He called us – he was stuck in a traffic jam on Baker Street,' Moffat recalls. 'Sherlock Holmes, stuck on Baker Street! We couldn't work out if that was a good sign or not.'
'I think he might have made that up. to be honest,' Mark Gatiss says. 'But it's a really good lie.'
When Cumberbatch finally arrived, the party who made Sherlock watched the show then minutes behind the rest of Britain.
'But we knew when the climax happened,' Mark Gatiss beams, 'because suddenly all our phones were going off, everyone texting, everyone phoning. I mean, exploding.'
'An hour later, I went and sat in the garden,' Moffat says, 'and looked at Twitter. I saw that Benedict was trending worldwide on Twitter, Martin was trending worldwide, Sherlock was trending worldwide. And people were talking about it with this ... passion. As if there were lifelong fans – when, of course, they'd not seen it ninety minutes ago. Everything had changed in ninety minutes.'
He pauses for a minute, still looking surprised.
'Everything.'
(Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, Part Four, Sherlock Feature: The Making of 'A Scandal in Belgravia')

There is something deeply meditative about simply putting one foot in front of the other. [...] I, too, felt this deep, primal connection between body and landscape, from the top of Camden Road to the bottom of it. Then I felt so bored I could have punched a bird off a tree.
[...]
It started to rain, hard. I trudged over Waterloo Bridge as buses neatly transferred whole puddles across my right-hand side. On the South Bank, I went into Eat to get a coffee. The barista looked scared. When I saw myself in the mirror, I could see why. My fake leopardskin coat was soaked. My hair ran with water. My trainers didn't just squelch when I walked - they glugged. The barista had looked at all the evidence, and concluded that I must have just failed to commit suicide by jumping in the Thames – and that now I was having a coffee, whilst I waited for the tide to rise a little higher.
(Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, aus dem Kapitel I Do a Lot For Charity, but I Would Never Mention It.)