You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.
Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.
(n.) Dismission; discharge.
She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.