Advocates for disabled to protest "Tropic Thunder"
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Glad you said it. I was going to come in here and make an very inappropriate "tard farm" joke.
Did these people protest There's Something About Mary too? There was a lot of stuff in there about retards.
People seriously need to grow a pair and stop getting offended over stuff like this. It's a movie, and a comedy at that.
So many good things are ruined for the rest of us when some uptight asshole complains that they were "offended".
So many good things are ruined for the rest of us when some uptight asshole complains that they were "offended".
Their upsetness of the movie's potrayal even caused a viral-marketing website related to the movie to get closed.
I think people just need to shut-up in cases like this as it's not that big of a deal and they also obviously missed the "point" behind that plot thread in the movie, further the word "retard" is just how people talk. It's a word we use. It may not be the nicest word but for it to be as bad as the "n-word."
I think people just need to shut-up in cases like this as it's not that big of a deal and they also obviously missed the "point" behind that plot thread in the movie, further the word "retard" is just how people talk. It's a word we use. It may not be the nicest word but for it to be as bad as the "n-word."
Sheesh. The US has become a protest happy nation over silly things now hasn't it? I don't remember such protests when the same word was used in "ST IV: The Voyage Home" when the agent calls Chekov a "retard or something". Political correctness has gone too far IMO.
The more I hear of this, the more I'm reminded of Ralphie May's "Girth of a Nation."
If you're offended by the word "retarded," you probably aren't.
If you're offended by the word "retarded," you probably aren't.
I won't be seeing this film, but it has nothing to do with this issue.
It's mainly a 'guy film' from what I hear, and so I won't be seeing it for that reason. But I am beyond bored with all of this PC terminology bull-oney.
I never understood what the issue was with referring to someone as mentally retarded. If they are excessively slow, or mentally challenged or whatever, they ARE mentally retarded. All 'retarded' means, after all, is 'slow'.
And that is what these people are. It's not 'derogatory' - it's what they ARE. And calling it something else is not gonna add 50 IQ points to anyone's intelligence.
Wrap it up in any package you like, but the reality of the situation is the same. So why not just call it what it is, rather than making up a new euphemism for it every 10 years?
I simply do not grasp people's reluctance to deal with reality these days.
It's mainly a 'guy film' from what I hear, and so I won't be seeing it for that reason. But I am beyond bored with all of this PC terminology bull-oney.
I never understood what the issue was with referring to someone as mentally retarded. If they are excessively slow, or mentally challenged or whatever, they ARE mentally retarded. All 'retarded' means, after all, is 'slow'.
And that is what these people are. It's not 'derogatory' - it's what they ARE. And calling it something else is not gonna add 50 IQ points to anyone's intelligence.Wrap it up in any package you like, but the reality of the situation is the same. So why not just call it what it is, rather than making up a new euphemism for it every 10 years?
I simply do not grasp people's reluctance to deal with reality these days.
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I never understood what the issue was withing referring to someone as mentally retarded. If they are excessively slow, or mentally challenged or whatever, they ARE mentally retarded. All 'retarded' means, after all, is 'slow'.
Yeah, that's like calling gay people gay.
I will reserve judgment because I have not seen the film, but I am deeply disappointed in many of the posters in this thread although I am not surprised. Yes, calling someone a "retard" IS derogatory and offensive because it is labeling that person AS their disability. It is absolutely comparable to the N-word as far as I'm concerned.
Yes, and it doesn't stop them using it in a film, whether for comedic shock value, or to indicate real malice. And as far as I'm concerned they can say whatever they like in a film/TV and so long as it works in context I'll be perfectly fine with it.
Fair enough.
I never understood what the issue was withing referring to someone as mentally retarded. If they are excessively slow, or mentally challenged or whatever, they ARE mentally retarded. All 'retarded' means, after all, is 'slow'.
Yeah, that's like calling gay people gay.
See, I don't know that I agree with that, necessarily.
'Gay' is much more of a slang term than is 'retarded'. 'Retarded' has never meant anything other than 'slow', whereas 'gay' meant something else (and still does) until the last 20 years or so.
Gay used to mean 'happy and festive'. Retarded has always meant 'slow'.
My objection is that when people take offense at the term 'retarded' they are actually taking offense at proper English usage.
Mentally challenged people ARE 'mentally retarded'. They are mentally slow. Call it whatever you like, that is what they are.
But gay people are not necessarily 'happy and festive', which was sorta the original usage of the term 'gay'. That is a slang term which developed over the years, and is therefore more subject to change, IMO.
For now it seems to be an acceptable term to the homosexual community, and so I use it. But if the homosexual community began to take offense to the term 'gay', I'd move to whatever the new term became.
But 'mentally retarded' has always meant the same thing and ought to be acceptable usage.