[HurdFIRST]

I just had to address a student about this exact issue in the pits at Kettering last week. She was addressing a cable ran to the second floor via a ladder with caution tape wrapped around it. My exact words to her were "unless there's 7 hungry families living in that ladder, you need to find a different word to describe it."

It's not about being politically correct, it's about being inclusive and approachable. (I hope) you wouldn't call someone acting in an undesirable manner gay for the same reason that you shouldn't call the crap you put on your robot ghetto. In doing so you let those who are gay and those who actually live in the ghetto know that they are undesirable and that they are crap respectively.