*eyeroll*

"Oh, I can call people and things retarded because my sister is retarded and she uses the word all the time! Heeheehee!

Well, bully for you and your sister. It's still not a nice word to be throwing around.

Cue random interlopers:

"Oh, but you don't know she was using the word to insult people! It's mean of you to assume that! Maybe she said her zipper was retarded! That's not insulting, because zippers can't be insulted!"

Fortunately, I was spared the indignity of having to point out how baseless that statement is. Somebody else did, only to get the "dictionary definiton" of retarded - to have been caused to slow down. "So it totally applies to zippers!"

Because people really talk like that, of course. They don't apply perjorative connotations to those words, it's just me and you and our sick sad minds! Yeah!

Sometimes, I could just... just.... I don't know. But it's not pleasant, anyway.

(And yes, TNT is quite hypocritical for allowing dumb but not retarded. Normally I'd ignore it, but now I'm struck with a nagging feeling that I should complain and see if they'll ban the word dumb as well.)

And now comments are frozen. Because calling people out on their offensive and prejudiced language is wrong.