The "R" Word 10/21/2011
 
Confession: For the past half dozen years or so, I have been striving to rid myself of the habit of using the word "retarded." It's tough. I'm an old band kid; we've got inappropriate mouths. Still - unacceptable, particularly coming from someone who is so adamant about abolishing the use of "gay" to mean the same thing.

I'd thought I'd more or less conquered my inappropriate use of "the r-word," but then what do I go and do? I go to guest-speak in a colleague's classroom for five minutes yesterday, get flustered, and defend my topic of conversation by telling the room that "I know it sounds retarded, but..."

My mortification lasted all day. I kept mulling over that moment. Who did I offend? Did they tell on me when the teacher returned? Should I have apologized? Should I go back and apologize?

SO embarrassed.

On a moderately unrelated note, I later had the opportunity to grade one of my seniors' papers. Her entire analysis of a film she'd watched for class was that "it was pointless and retarted." After I got done fuming at her and giving her a zero on the paper, I had to laugh and remember what I'd read on Teenagers are Ridiculous about "retarted" having to do with making your pies over. Another possible definition: fixing yourself up all slutty because the first attempt at tarting it up didn't succeed?
 


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