When did Snow White become a hooker?

What was the most offensive trampling of tradition in the name of political correctness that you witnessed over the holidays?

I'm not talking about the old standbys, like turning 'Christmas Trees' into 'Holiday Trees.' That is to be expected these days. But did you see anything that made you want to gag on a roasted chestnut? I did.

In Chicago, one of the big Christmas traditions is to go look at the windows of the department store Marshall Fields. They always have some kind of holiday theme, and it's usually pretty elaborate and cool.

This year, the theme was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.' Only no, it wasn't. In order not to offend anyone, the entire exhibit was renamed. So when holiday revelers made their way downtown to look at the windows, they were treated to . . .

'Snow White and the Seven Men.'

Good God, has it come to this? First of all, that title sounds like a pornographic movie, doesn't it? What's the subtitle? 'Join us as Snow experiences her first gang bang in the magical forest!'

Secondly, whom exactly are we trying not to offend here? Can we really not say 'dwarf' anymore? Even dwarves say dwarf, don't they? Dwarf is okay, isn't it? I think midget is bad . . . but we're still good on dwarf, I think.

And if you really are hell bent on avoiding 'dwarf,' wouldn't anything be better than 'Snow White and the Seven Men?' What about 'Snow White and the Seven Short Dudes?' Or, 'Snow White and the Seven Hobbits?' After Lord of the Rings, everybody loves Hobbits, right? Hell, 'Snow White and the Seven Little People' would be better than what they came up with.

In fact, anything would be better than 'Snow White and the Seven Men,' . . . . except, of course, 'Snow White and the Seven Vertically Challenged Male Persons,' which is probably next year's theme.