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[–]MarkTwainiac 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I find it worrying that on a thread on which the OP, a woman, has asked for support in dealing with her partner's AGP, one poster has used this as an opportunity to thump his chest and tell us how masculine and straight he is, and to use terms that disparage people who are physically and intellectually disabled.

Then another poster has come along to defend the use of dehumanizing terminology towards people with disabilities by claiming

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

Sorry, people with views like this are not people I want to be associated with.

OP, sorry your thread has gotten derailed. I made a long post offering what I hope is support. IMO, offering support is all we posters should be doing here.