'War Stories'
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 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!!
yoiks. my sympathies with the frustration.
Good god, flea. Yeah, sounds like some smacking around with a clue by four is once again in order.
flea, you have my sympathies.
What Tom said about special needs. Isn't it always going to be a moving target? We used learning disabled/LD as a slur when I was young, and that was the new PC term.
Oh flea. I do so sympathize. And offer my personal cluebat.
Special has always been the polite slur between the kids in my family growing up, because it was Special Ed and there was the Special Ed bus. Here's CLUE to the sensitive types that keep wanting terms changed. KIDS WILL STILL MAKE FUN! We made up nonsense words to tease each other with in my family and one of my cousins made up curse words. My aunt punished the perceived intent of the said word rather than actual language at that point.
Oh dear, flea. I would be angry if I were you!
We used learning disabled/LD as a slur when I was young, and that was the new PC term.
I think people will just use whatever term- "special needs" (and people who were going to be mechanics or hairdressers) kids in upstate NY were bused to a place called BOCES, which stood for something. We used "BO-tard" as a slur, or called people "BOCIES".