'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Isn't it the case that new terms constantly have to be invented, because the old term has been coopted and used as a slur?
I guess, but it gets ridiculous after a while. If you can use "special needs" as a slur, what can you come up with that isn't one?
Isn't it the case that new terms constantly have to be invented, because the old term has been coopted and used as a slur?
I suppose that's the rationale behind it (well, that and touchy parents bristling at any hint that their kids aren't precious angels dropped straight from on high). But "special needs" doesn't seem pejorative, whereas using synonyms for gifted for kids who have physical or developmental disabilities strikes me as people being in complete denial that there are actual difficulties to overcome in their education.
People use "girl" as a slur all the time, and you don't see us coming up with new words to call female children, do you?
ION, I just got out of going to a boring meeting, but now I feel a little guilty. And out of the loop -- but it's a loop I don't need to be in!
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People use "girl" as a slur all the time, and you don't see us coming up with new words to call female children, do you?
Speaking as a differently genitaled person, I resent that.
Two accounts with the same interest rate will make the same amount of money as combining the two.
yay math! I thought so, but I didn't know if there was some sort of compound interest thing or something.
Isn't it the case that new terms constantly have to be invented, because the old term has been coopted and used as a slur?
I think so. Also, I used to work for an 'office of Special Programs' which had nothing to do with 'special needs', but people really thought it did! (That office was "learning assistance")
The internets now work. They made an announcement over the loudspeaker throughout the hospital and school of nursing.
Shit I can't say in my Livejournal because my husband reads it: Yes, I am furious that your inability to finish your dissertation before the end of the spring semester is now jeopardizing our ability to get a mortgage. I fucking told you so. Ten thousand times I told you so. How many more times can you fail?
(Job is contingent upon dissertation; mortgage needs proof of employment; dissertation defense is scheduled for July 22, although a full draft is still not complete and the conclusion is un-begun; job starts August 4.)
Effing hell, flea. My fist, it is shaking.
Oh god, flea.
Speaking as a differently genitaled person, I resent that.
Har. Man up!!