does it bother you when someone says Retarded?

Question

if you hear someone call someone retarded, does it bothers you?
it bothers me, once a friend of mine was talking about someone and said it, so i told her to say mentally challenge. not the R word.

Answer 1

No, because if you understand how the person is using it in context, you shouldn't be offended

Answer 2

Nope doesn't bother me at all...it's just a word. Words are just words. Anything said these day can be offensive to someone. The word retarded or retard doesn't have to mean they are slamming the people who are mentally challenged. It's just how people take it.

Answer 3

Nope, I would never think of calling a mentally ill person retarded, but I use the word all the time to describe people or situations that make no sense.

Answer 4

who are you to make up that rule? in the newspaper they use the term retarded and it's in the dictionary NOT as an insult but as a condition. it's also a word that i've heard health care workers use... perhaps you need to stop judging people for using the correct words just because you are "uncomfortable" with it. it's an acceptable word.

re·tard·ed /rɪˈtɑrdɪd/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ri-tahr-did] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective 1. characterized by retardation: a retarded child.
–noun 2. (used with a plural verb) mentally retarded persons collectively (usually prec. by the): new schools for the retarded.


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[Origin: 1800–10; retard + -ed2]


—Synonyms backward, disabled, handicapped.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Answer 5

No because that's what kids say in school when they can't think of anything better to say. My brother will say something like "That's retarded." If things aren't going his way.

Answer 6

i dont think so! as long as u dont call a "mentally challenged" person retarted and tha person ur calling retarded knows ur kidding than its fine.

Answer 7

They use to call children with down's syndrome, mongoloid idiots. Now that was mentally challenged!!

Answer 8

A retarded person calls others retarded . so laugh at him
and he may never understand . :)

Answer 9

ok... well i say it all the time and im not bothered by it. i only use it to describe my frends when theyre stupid.... however i hate myself when i say it coz one of my frends DOES have a mentally challenged sister WHO IS THE CUTEST THING ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.. i wish she was MY sister = [

Answer 10

It bugs me, but if you go to my school, you hear it so often you stop acknowledging it. I'd just rather people didn't say it.

Answer 11

I think it's offending to call someone that. I'm guessing that they just don't know how lucky they have it.