content: The "stifles human connection" phrase is spot on. For some people (maybe more for men than women) that piss taking, making jokes about each other approach is the natural way to connect  I'm one of those people.  For other people that just doesn't work.  Of itself that's fine, we are all different and I wouldn't talk to my aunt in the same way I talk to my friend.  The problem is PC people whose view is, "there is only one way we should connect" (my way).  Anyone else is doing it wrong,  The net result for me is that I hold back and communicate less.  It takes me longer to get to know people than it did in the past because I have to know them better before I say what I really think.