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[–]MarkTwainiac 17 insightful - 2 fun17 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

You partner is a weak, pathetic retard. As a straight, masculine dude, I feel nothing but contempt for these autogynephiles who decide their pathetic paraphilia is more important than the woman and children they should be protecting. He sounds like the typical weak agp who watches too much porn, goes on reddit too much of socialise (because he's a loser) and devote most of his pathetic time to jerking off with sissy hypno bimbo spastic stuff. Lol 37 year old cross dresser. I bet he's going to say he felt like this since he was a a young child when this 100% came out when he went through puberty (because he's agp)

It is terrible for you but at least the prick is doing it before you're too old to escape his narc agp world. You need to escape, find a normal dude who doesn't use reddit. Reddit/social media is like a factory where weak dudes go in one door and come out as broken losers. These subs are like cults for retards.

I don't want to "language police," but I thought using slurs like "retard" and "spastic" became passé in the 1970s coz they're offensive and belittling of people with Down's syndrome, dementia, TBIs, cerebral palsy, stroke, MS, ALS, Parkinson's and a whole bunch of other conditions that cause intellectual and/or physical impairments and disabilities. No one chooses to have these disadvantaging and disabling conditions, and their/our lives are hard enough without other people slagging them/us off for characteristics over which they/we have no control.

I also thought it went out of fashion about 50-60 years ago to characterize people the speaker/writer views as typical and acceptable as "normal" and for men to castigate others they feel superior to as "weak" and "pathetic." What's more, wasn't it made obvious decades ago that a man who feels compelled to announce to the world (apropos of nothing) that he is a "straight, masculine dude" and to preach about men "protecting" women and children whilst he repeatedly calls other men "losers", "weak," "pathetic," "spastic" and "retards" is a telling sign that, as Shakespeare put it, said man might be protesting too much?

There are ways to make one's points forcefully and effectively without demeaning others with slurs. Why use a thread in which a woman is asking for support as an excuse to post such stuff?

[–]mharmless 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

they're offensive and belittling of people with Down's syndrome, dementia, TBIs, cerebral palsy, stroke, MS, ALS, Parkinson's and a whole bunch of other conditions that cause intellectual and/or physical impairments and disabilities.

They're insults because

No one chooses to have these disadvantaging and disabling conditions, and their/our lives are hard enough without other people slagging them/us off for characteristics over which they/we have no control.

Nobody will ever desire to be any of these things, therefore they will always be insults. Keep attacking the old terms, new ones will be spun off, because being a retard is never going to be a positive thing no matter what word you use to label 'being a retard' with.

[–]MarkTwainiac 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

being a retard is never going to be a positive thing no matter what word you use to label 'being a retard' with.

I didn't say that having a physically or intellectually disabling condition was "a positive thing." Actually, it's a very awful, cruel, challenging and usually very lonely and impoverishing thing.

What I said is that it's been passé for 50 years at least to use slurs to demean and dehumanize people for having such conditions.

There but for the grace of god/goddess go you or I.

I hope that when you grow up a bit you show a tad more compassion. Anyone can be struck down by a traumatic brain injury, tumor, stroke or any one of a plethora of neurological conditions like MS or ALS at any time in life. Any of us can have a child with Down's or CP. Lots of people nowadays get early-onset dementia in their 50s. Many people suffer conditions like pernicious anemia and Bell's palsy. Why the need to demean and dehumanize all such people?

Look what happened to Christopher Reeve, aka Superman of movie fame. In 1995, he was the epitome of a muscular, fit, masculine, powerful, sexy, handsome, healthy, successful, virile, athletic superstar and specimen of ultra-manhood. Then he was thrown from a horse, and in an instant he at age 42 became paralyzed from the neck down. Couldn't move. Couldn't wipe his nose or ass. Initially couldn't even talk. This can happen to any of us.

https://youtu.be/ccwvroZ_Ra4

I'm a person with a disabling and disfiguring neurological condition that has resulted in intellectual deficits I have to work around every day. But if you look through my post history, I think you'll find I'm far from "being a retard."

Also, this thread was started by a woman in dire straits looking for support. How is your post slagging off people you think deserve the label "retard" showing support for her?