![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
( Some background information )
And so this brings us to today. I've only got a few hours left of March 31st where I am, and I need to be up early tomorrow (as with every school day) to get the kids to class on time, but I want to get this out first.
Guys? Calling something "r*tarded" is not cool. Saying you're a "Narutard" or an "Avatard" or anything similar? Not funny. The term "shounen retard"? I love you guys, but. Slightly squicked, here. And I feel angry and foolish by turns for how long it took me to figure out that /b/-tard was not a play on "bastard".
I've got a lot of work left to do on my own isms, and that includes eliminating words like "lame" from my slang vocabulary (a word I never gave much thought until recently, sadly, and then tried to justify, of all things). I don't think I'll ever be able to walk up to a stranger on the street and tell them that use of the R-word is offensive. I'll probably even have trouble with friends and acquaintances for years to come, especially offline.
I can't make you stop using that word. Hell, it's your choice. Here in this journal, though, I'm not going to put up with it. To the best of my memory, no one has used that word here in any sense. If my memory is correct, I'm going to work to keep it that way. If it's not, I'm going to work to keep it from happening again. And that's my choice.
R-word.org
Edit: Two more links: Our Language Frames How We Think About Others and A Message from John C. McGinley (AKA, Dr. Cox from Scrubs).
And so this brings us to today. I've only got a few hours left of March 31st where I am, and I need to be up early tomorrow (as with every school day) to get the kids to class on time, but I want to get this out first.
Guys? Calling something "r*tarded" is not cool. Saying you're a "Narutard" or an "Avatard" or anything similar? Not funny. The term "shounen retard"? I love you guys, but. Slightly squicked, here. And I feel angry and foolish by turns for how long it took me to figure out that /b/-tard was not a play on "bastard".
I've got a lot of work left to do on my own isms, and that includes eliminating words like "lame" from my slang vocabulary (a word I never gave much thought until recently, sadly, and then tried to justify, of all things). I don't think I'll ever be able to walk up to a stranger on the street and tell them that use of the R-word is offensive. I'll probably even have trouble with friends and acquaintances for years to come, especially offline.
I can't make you stop using that word. Hell, it's your choice. Here in this journal, though, I'm not going to put up with it. To the best of my memory, no one has used that word here in any sense. If my memory is correct, I'm going to work to keep it that way. If it's not, I'm going to work to keep it from happening again. And that's my choice.
R-word.org
Edit: Two more links: Our Language Frames How We Think About Others and A Message from John C. McGinley (AKA, Dr. Cox from Scrubs).
