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i don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but i sure have. the resurgence of the word "retarded". what was once common in the '80s was banished in the p.c. '90s, along with "that is so gay" and "merry christmas". some things i'm happy to see disappear, but i did miss that particular word. not because i want to make fun of mentally disabled people, i don't. in fact, i just about laid the beats to this punk ass little fucker a few months ago that was teasing a mentally disabled person. but somehow this phrase has edged it's way back into my vocabulary, years after retreating with its tail between its legs after a particularly judgy person said "that's really rude. i have a friend who's friend's brother is mentally disabled. that's really offensive." this also, coincidentally, is when schools began forgoing christmas concerts and public toilets became "comfort stations". but now, more and more the word "retarded" enters my life. i say it a lot. i admit it. never in a professional situation, but often in my personal ones. i refer to myself as retarded on a regular basis. i refer to long, unmoving lineups and really bad movies as retarded. i refer to situations that are ridiculous as retarded. the other day, at one of the same stores to ban "merry christmas", a girl slapped her forehead and said "man, i'm retarded". it made me a little happy. an episode of arrested development, where michael discovers his fiancee is an "mrf" (mentally retarded female), i giggled like a school girl for the whole 30 minutes. we tend to take ourselves and life so seriously. it's retarded.
***note: if this post is offensive, i apologize. sort of. well, not really. stop being retarded.
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