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If I hear one more person use the word "retarded" in a context that does not follow "clinically" or "medically," I will start kicking asses. Or something. It's not a term for "stupid" or for things someone doesn't like, it does not make your point clearer by means of profanity, and it makes the person saying it sound like a simple-minded redneck. The same thing goes with the word "gay," which people use in (not so ironically) the same exact context. Gay and retarded are not the same thing and are not interchangable, and are not there to cement the sentences of the ignorant. Stupid is only barely permissible, but since it's already deep in language as a term for something people don't like, there's not much we can do about that.
Seriously, I am so tired of people dismissing the struggles of huge groups of other people in order to sound, like, cool and stuff, ohmigod. STOP.
Seriously, I am so tired of people dismissing the struggles of huge groups of other people in order to sound, like, cool and stuff, ohmigod. STOP.