December 2011
“You don’t call a retarded person ‘retard’. It’s bad taste. You call your friends retard when they’re acting retarded.”
-Michael Scott
If Michael Scott tries to defend the way something should be socially acceptable, then chances are, it should not be socially acceptable. I just don’t understand why so many people believe it’s okay to use “retard/ retarded” as an appropriate way to describe something or someone. People get offended when others use “gay” to describe something with a negative connotation, and so do I, but I get equally frustrated when people use “retarded”; and I can’t understand why someone would want to defend the use of it. When was it ever okay? Mentally challenged people do take offense to it. I never paid attention to it, and it never exactly bothered me, but at the same time I still didn’t understand why it was alright. But since I’ve had a little sister with Down’s syndrome for the past 2 years, it affects me in a different way. It really bums me out whenever I hear it, and makes me sad. I don’t know, not that venting about it through some blog will help change anything, especially since most won’t read it, but I guess I just felt like expressing my opinion for once in some way.
My stance on gay parenting/marriage:
I would rather have these two take care of me:
than these two:
