Third best retarded nerd assassin movie ever?
Behind "The Professional" and "Ghost Dog"?
shareFirst of all, the term "retarded" is no longer in use. It is considered insulting. The current term is "cognitively " or "intellectually" delayed.
Secondly, he was intellectually a genius, but lost in social interactions.
First of all, the term "retarded" is most definitely still in use. Ya know, because OP just used it?
Second, you're replying to a toll, also known as "being trolled."
I was born in the 60s and missed the memo... Retarded really is no longer used? It is crazy to me that society thinks you can change society's emotional relation to something just by changing the word. So if someone is a midget and now we have to call them a little person how is the connotation any different. Midget and little person feel like the same thing to me except now I'm suppose to be ashamed of using one and I don't know why? It not like I ever hated midgets.
We all have our own personal dictionaries. If someone defined whites as someone with caucasian heritage and someone else familiar with whites calls them "crackers" and define them as oppressive people, it is crazy to me that someone thinks you can make them change their emotional relation to "crackers" by making them call them whites. If you are a good cracker and represent yourself as one to those that call white people crackers you'd start hearing people say "I know this good cracker that is like this or that..." and that changes the connotation of cracker. Being a cracker could eventually even be alright. I don't care what people call me because if they take the time to get to know me I can establish a emotional relationship to me that is beyond any connotation of a term they used before they knew me.
About 5-6 years ago we were going to a Chinese restaurant and my daughter in-law whispered to me the term oriental for a person was wrong after I used it. I was in shock. I had missed that memo also. And I loved those people and had no ill connotations about them under that term.
Why are people so concerned about what term a stranger might use for them that they feel a change of it might give them a better chance at making a first impression?
Changing your name doesn't change who you are, to yourself or anybody else.
I think the strongest example I know is "spastic", meaning a person with cerebral palsy, but then being so used as an insult, that it had to be dropped.
Unfortunately, whatever word is used, can become an insult, and there is no end.
I think Australians were banned from using "pom" during the Sydney Olympics, but only in the term "whinging pom".
My aunt woke up from a coma after twenty years and we had to retrain her how to speak.
Here were the updates:
"Orientals" were now "Asian".
"Mentally retarded" was now "mentally challenged".
"Midgets" were now "short people".
"Mexicans" were now "Latinas/Latinos".
"Spaniards" were now "Hispanic".
"Negroes" had gone from "colored" to "black" but were now "African American".
"Indians" were now "Native Americans".
"Indians" were now "Indians".
"Gringos" were now "White Americans".
"Mohammadens" were now "Muslims".
We don't use the term "black Muslim" anymore.
Did we leave anything out? If so, please tell me.
Also, I have a brother in law who is mentally challenged but he tells everyone he is retarded. I don't correct him because he can describe himself however he wants to in my opinion. Just like I can describe myself how I want and will not be told how to do it.
A simple mind is a tidy mind.
Again depends. The deep South uses those oldfer terms (of course, it's a racist area, too)
shareThe clinical term is still "retardation" thou.
share"Did we leave anything out? If so, please tell me."
Yes, you can no longer call people with Down Syndrome "mongoloid", which used to be the known term and what I thought it was called long before I heard of Down Syndrome.
The term mongol, or Mongoloid, was adopted in the late 19th century to refer to a person with Down syndrome, owing to the similarity of some of the physical symptoms of the disorder with the normal facial characteristics of eastern Asian people. The syndrome itself was thus called mongolism. In modern English, this use of mongol (and related forms) is unacceptable and is considered offensive. In scientific, as well as in most general contexts, mongolism has been replaced by the term Down syndrome (first recorded in the early 1960s).
...also, waiters/waitresses are now "servers", stewards/stewardesses are now "flight attendants". But what is really offensive about those terms? What is offensive about "Negro" even? It's just Spanish for "black" which is not offensive.
shareStewardess and Waitresses still in use here in eastern L.A.County.
share"First of all, the term "retarded" is no longer in use. "
Maybe not outside the Midwest and the South.
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