Politically Correct terms?

[GPhiBLtColonel]

...I think it'd be interesting to hear what "the masses" feel about the use of supposedly PC terms like recruitment (which as a retired military officer I personally object to!) instead of rush; new member instead of pledge and any others that come to mind. Frankly there are fewer more subservient roles to be in life than a RECRUIT!!! It automatically implies being at the lowest rung as an enlisted person who is ordered around my everyone above her/him in the chain of command! Why is that more PC than rush and pledge??? Personally I cannot for the life of me imagine what whiney person felt slihted by and objected to being call a pledge and why the term rush is so offensive? How exactly did they come about? Do these terms really help anything? I would love to hear from someone who says she feels much better about herself because she is called a new member who was recruited rather than a pledge who was rushed???
So what do y'all think? Should we tell the powers that be we want to go back to the way it was or what?