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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#325
Posted: 2/12/08 at 6:20pmI think the whole argument about "retarded" or "slow developped" is out of topic and stupid. Yeah, I say STUPID. Should I use some word else?
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#326
Posted: 2/12/08 at 6:22pm
"Should I use some word else?"
I'm sorry, but are you retarded, or just slow developped?
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#327
Posted: 2/12/08 at 6:28pm
Sanda ~ if your translation service gave you "slow developped", you need a new translation service. I said developmentally delayed. (I assume since you said earlier your English isn't good you may be using a translation service. If you're not...well...I kind of apologize I suppose. Please don't change words in that case.)
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Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#328
Posted: 2/12/08 at 6:29pm
See that's the kind of usage of retarded that bugs me. Theaterdiva, you are clearly trying to insult sanda by suggesting she is retarded because of her syntax problems.
When people use the word retarded as an insult like you just did, then when I refer to my cousin as retarded, I gotta hear a whole bunch of nonsense because now everybody gets confused.
Don't use retarded as an insult. : ) Even when youre mad. : )
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#329
Posted: 2/12/08 at 6:37pm
See?
Get your story straight.
It's rude.
Period.
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#330
Posted: 2/12/08 at 6:42pm
Asking a stranger on a message board if they are retarded is one way you can use the word as an insult.
Using the medical term retard when talking about my cousin who has been diagnosed by doctors as retarded is not the same thing.
Am I not making this clear or something? Let me try it one more time.
Retarded is a medical term. It CAN be offensive if used purposely as an insult like theaterdiva just did to sanda.
But, when used for its intended medical purpose, its not an insult.
I really hope this finally makes it crystal clear. If it doesn't......I don't know how else I can explain it!
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#331
Posted: 2/12/08 at 6:45pmI believe she was just trying to make a point.
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#332
Posted: 2/12/08 at 6:48pm
Yeah I understand: The word retarded can sometimes be offensive. Of course. However, it is by no means right up there with the racial and homophobic slurs that theaterdiva compared it to, and by no means should we banish retarded from our vocabulary.
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#333
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:01pmas they would say in Family Guy "I work with the retardeds, and I am proud of it." There is clearly a difference between using it as an insult, and using it when referring to someone's diagnoses.
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
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re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#334
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:04pmand I think everyone at the place where I work would agree.
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#335
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:08pm
theatrediva, why do you curse? it's uncalling for.
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#336
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:09pmyes, using the N word was CLEARLY uncalled for.
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#337
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:23pm
Asking a stranger on a message board if they are retarded is one way you can use the word as an insult.
Using the medical term retard when talking about my cousin who has been diagnosed by doctors as retarded is not the same thing.
Am I not making this clear or something? Let me try it one more time.
Retarded is a medical term. It CAN be offensive if used purposely as an insult like theaterdiva just did to sanda.
But, when used for its intended medical purpose, its not an insult.
I really hope this finally makes it crystal clear. If it doesn't......I don't know how else I can explain it!
exactly. If someone here said, "Sanda, your English sucks!" should I take that as insult? of course not. Why I should take a fact as insult?
However, If someone said, "sanda, you are retarded.". I would take that as insult cause that's not true.
I wonder how theatrediva cannot differetiate these two...
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#338
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:26pmthe world may never know
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#339
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:26pm
"I believe she was just trying to make a point"
I'm a guy, but yes, that was the point.
That made me laugh, though.
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
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re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#342
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:31pmThere is also a difference between saying someone is mentally retarded and just flat out calling them a retard. "Retard" is generally NOT accepted (at least in my experiences).
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#343
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:32pmThat's one more that agrees. Thanks dancingthrulife04.
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#344
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:34pmThat's ALL i've been trying to say over and over and over again. (curling up into a fetal position)
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#345
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:36pm
I personally don't agree with the use of the expression, period, but I will agree that there is a difference. (Like jordan, I have found that people are horrified by it, and tend to say "developmentally delayed," or something of the sort.)
That probably didn't make much sense, but I know what I meant.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#346
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:36pmI know, but I guess we are still considered "ignorant."
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#347
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:38pmI think I just clarified what I meant in my last post.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#348
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:39pmdon't worry, I know what you meant.
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members#349
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:47pm
Can we just stop using that word?
It's awful.
And no matter what anyone says, it's not right.
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