The R-Word

I am sorry that I have been MIA for a little while. There's been a lot going on. Okay, on to the entry! :)

So, if you know me at all, you know that I absolutely hate the R-word. I tell people all the time to choose another word. It just grates on your nerves after a while. I know some individuals who throw the R-word around just because they know it bothers me. I just don't understand how people just don't get the message. And then, I thought about it. The people that are throwing around the R-word, are probably the same people throwing around any other racial slur. They are saying those things because they get a rise out of people and they just really don't care. They don't care about the efforts of you and me, who try to alert people to the effects their words have on others.

Yesterday, I posted this to facebook. And one of my friends left this in response. Please take a minute to look at both.

Now, I agree that John McGinley should have probably chosen his words better for the PSA (or at least whoever created it). I can see why feminists are upset. I, too, am not exactly thrilled that a PSA was made to alert people of the power their words that insult people with intellectual disabilities, by insulting women at the same time. Hypocrisy at it's finest, right? I don't; however, think that this should take a way from the full meaning of the main message of spread the word to end the word, which is for people to stop using the R-word in a derogatory manner.

I just don't understand what's so hard about not using the word.