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"Sweet" "Rad" "Sick" "Killer"
all meaning "Wow, that's amazing" or "extremely good."
I guess I work with a lot of people under 30 who can hardly string a sentence.
I've been very shocked lately by the resurgence of the use of "gay" and "retarded."
Back when I was in junior high, in the early 80s, you would hear everyone call something or someone they disliked "gay" or "retarded."
"You are like, so gay."
"That class totally retarded."
But we supposedly grew up. We learned better ways of expressing ourselves. We also learned that using those words as general insults was actually very demeaning to people who actually are gay, or who actually have mental retardation.
But now, in the last year or so, I'm hearing these words used again. In the workplace, on TV, in social situations. And it's not from teenagers or people in their 20s. It's people my age, in their 30s-40s, and even a VP in my company who's in his 50s!
Well you can olso say that using the word "gay" to refer to homosexuals can question the sexuality of people who happen to be joyful. You can't have your cake and eat it.
"going forward". I heard Jake Tapper use this phrase twice in a 60 second sound bite on GMA, while discussing the candidates for Republican presidential nominee and the results of the Iowa caucus.
Of course, they're "going forward". The voting in Iowa is over. How can they possibly go in any other direction?
It (the phrase) seems to be the newest catch-phrase of talking heads everywhere.
"could care less". Correct is "couldN'T care less". If you could care less then it means you still give a crap to some degree, couldn't care less means you don't care at all. I hate hearing could care less.
She/he is "such a trooper" ...demeaning at the least
"welcome to my world". ....rude. Everyone has their own hell, own stressors, no one is above another peron, it's just rude & so discrediting.
I've been very shocked lately by the resurgence of the use of "gay" and "retarded."
Back when I was in junior high, in the early 80s, you would hear everyone call something or someone they disliked "gay" or "retarded."
"You are like, so gay."
"That class totally retarded."
But we supposedly grew up. We learned better ways of expressing ourselves. We also learned that using those words as general insults was actually very demeaning to people who actually are gay, or who actually have mental retardation.
But now, in the last year or so, I'm hearing these words used again. In the workplace, on TV, in social situations. And it's not from teenagers or people in their 20s. It's people my age, in their 30s-40s, and even a VP in my company who's in his 50s!
Has anyone else noticed this?
I kind of like the word "retarded" for use in a certain context. Yes, I know it's no longer proper to use the word to refer to learning-disabled people. (I had a mentally retarded aunt. She didn't live long enough to be relabeled as the prettier "challenged".) But sometimes, when a person of sufficient intelligence or better seems to choose to behave as though they were actually a learning-disabled thinker, labeling them as "retarded" seems to hit the spot.
Which may in and of itself be a retarded way of thinking.
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