Yeah, that's one of my problem words too. I never use "retarded" but "fucktarded" is hard to purge.
"Lame" and "spaz" are also hard for me to part with.
But I think it's a good (spiritual, even!) exercise to be contentious about our language and whom it might marginalize and whose experience it belittles.
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Date: 2009-08-07 06:25 am (UTC)"Lame" and "spaz" are also hard for me to part with.
But I think it's a good (spiritual, even!) exercise to be contentious about our language and whom it might marginalize and whose experience it belittles.