PSA: Lingo and you!

[lenainverse]

So a bit ago, when I got all puffed up because I passed my LCSW-C exam, I made mention that The licensure also gives me the right - nay, the duty - to bitchslap anyone who uses the word "bipolar" in an incorrect context. And someone responded to my taunts MWAHAHA! very insightfully asked me what the correct usage was. I meant to write this up

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[glitteringloke]

there's one thing to be cognizant and one to be overly PC. I'm still gonna feel gay some days and should i be forced to say happy because it's easier and equally accurate than having ppl think i'm feeling homosexual that day? it's kinda a violation of free speech there too. or maybe i should start correcting everyone that calls "geeks" a "geek" when a true geek is someone who's going around biting off chicken heads(playing devils advocate here, don't stone me)

and these professionals arent' being that at all, by and large. even with face time, years ago, i would still have been labeled, handed some prozac and sent on my way (didn't want that so i never went) even a hopkins doctor didn't want to treat my thyroid because it was 'only a little high'. so it's only taken well over 10 years to get something right, and this goes for medicine on a whole. my mom's entire list of drs always told her her problems were because she was 'fat' whe she had a football sized hemangioma inside her. it took a ruptured ovarian cyst to have ppl take her seriously.

working in the medical field (first hospital, now private lab), i see a LOT of stupid coming from well trained people who served their duty in med school and whatnot. half of them don't even understand the tests they prescribe and that's their specialties....

i've deviated and ranted enough. time to look for bladder cancer in another teenage kid *sigh*

[lenainverse]

*ponders* I think PC isn't a bad thing in some cases though. I mean, it came into existence because things were offending people. For me, I'd rather be overly PC (especially around company other than my close friends) than risk offending someone. I've had people sit with me and talk about my job and how worthless it is, not realizing what I do for a living. It hurt. I've had clients who overheard someone say "retard" in a completely incidental situation, yet the client flipped out because they were mentally retarded and they had been made to feel stupid and inferior all their lives. Words can and do hurt. But on the other hand, you have a right to say whatever you please whether I agree or not. ^_^

I think "violation" is a bit strong. I would in no way insist upon people conforming to what I think on this. And within the confines of the law, everyone is allowed to say (almost) whatever they please. So if you're comfortable with it then I can't and won't stop you. ^_^ My point isn't to demand that people bend to my whim, but rather that people consider the other side. Sure, you can use the word "gay" meaning happy if that's fine with you, and hey, it might be fine with the homosexual sitting next to you. But it might not be fine to another homosexual who overhears, or even a person like me who would think it was insensitive and unnecessary when "happy" would have sufficed. And I'm not trying to be snarky at all when I say that if it's not a bother to you that they or I am offended then it's your choice and that's fine. ^_^

I know this sounds like I'm huffing (like, "if you *want* to be a jerk, then fine!") but I'm honestly not at all. I just think it's an interesting discussion. <3

[glitteringloke]

oddly enough this kinda ties in with Obama's "special olympic" remark on Leno... all the comments to one of the articles are up in arms about it... except the ones that are families with special olympic members (sons, fathers, etc). they're the ones that ARE NOT upset at all. i find that highly amusing actually. they're the ones saying that ppl need to lighten up.

also, i went to an all women's college where it was chock full of lesbians (and i've more than enough friends from there too). i haven't met anyone of the homosexual persuasion that would be offended for me using gay in it's appropriate manner. i'm still confused over the redundancy of 'gays and lesbains' because it's just... redundant. (tho maybe they're called gay cuz they're happy? *shrug* i'm not in linguistics)

and now i think i'll start my campaign of "it's not Y cancer if it started in another orgain, it's just X-cancer in your Y" where X=tumor origin and Y= common metastatic sites - brain, lung, liver, lymph node

i wonder if i should bring back the gay-daft club... or at least our news paper...