What word? The word retard. I HATE it. It is only used nowadays to be rude towards others, others for the most who are not with a learning diffculty, but there are some disgraceful people who use it towards those in society who do have a disabilty.
I have blogged a few times about this word.
The latest person to use it? 'Lady' Gaga. Whilst trying to be hip and cool and oh so different she used the word to describe her retort for not copying another artists work.
Of course news broke of her usage of the word.
And of course the released statement from her camp claiming she is so sorry for using the word, and then bleating on and on with much contrition.
Why are the press jumping on the bandwagon though? Mock horror and outrage from them. The Sun being one of them. Well, The Sun can not stand in much condemnation over this 'Lady' as I have read in one of their columnists pages before now the word retard, used within a paragraph to describe the kind of viewer who would watch a certain programme they were reviewing.
This paper also employed the much dethroned from humour Frankie Boyle who saw fit to ridicule a disabled child not once, but twice (see my previous blogs about that).
Teenagers and immature adults use this word. Much sniggering and guffawing from them and a misguided feeling of being a comedian and exhalted to poplularity amongst their equally immature and poorly raised friends. It is not funny. It is not clever. It is discrimination and it needs to stop.
