Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24011918-20131214001227/@comment-5946174-20131217202544

Why someone would take offense to my using a defunct term to describe the absurdity of a concept while neither directly nor indirectly insulting another person is beyond me. However, it is clear that people will continue to insist that "retarded" offense word, even when it is no longer a valid diagnosis. In fact, it's being replaced by the term "intellectual disability" in the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. But, if you people wish to cling to the past and decry anyone who uses the word because you're offended by something that really isn't an issue, then that's fine by me.

Now that we've gotten that out of the way, we can discuss whether the words "gay" and "faggot" still upset people, and whether or not we should be allowed to use them.