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Old 03-18-2009, 01:48 PM   #80
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Originally Posted by Philly06Cup View Post
I put '######' in the same class of offensiveness as 'girl' and 'blind.'

"You throw like a girl."
"What are you, blind?!"

I don't find either of those expressions offensive. In the same vein, when my friend is slow-witted about something, I may call him a ######. Sometimes I may even call him mentally challenged.

The negative connotation doesn't come from the word '######' -- It comes from the fact that mentally challenged people are inferior to non-mentally challenged people. The same way that, generally speaking, girls are inferior to boys in terms of throwing and blind people are inferior to Seeing people.
What are you, deaf? You're not hearing what fatso is saying!!
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