Bilnd is now seeing impaired, deaf is hearing impaired , retarded is now "special needs " or learning disabled, Fat is now ample
It is like black people objecting to negro ( spanish for black)
The language is now officially useless
Sorry. It is not PC that language evolves.
When I was young, there was an extremely CRUDE insult “You suck c*ck.” It was later shortened to “You SUCK.” The verb “to suck” now is used by grandmothers and four-year-olds to mean something is bad.
Grandma does not mean that the movie engaged in oral sex.
“Negro” and (the derivative “n-gger) were not dropped because someone was just too sensitive - the words were dropped because they became common slurs for an ugly stereotype, based on nothing more than skin color
that is the problem with “retarded” and the derivative “retard” - too many people using it as an insult, not a clinical mental condition one is born with or develops from injury or disease. Teenagers seem to be among the worst offenders. Mine will never use this term loosely.
The term “retarded” as a mental condition needs to go back to being a medical term, not a term of contempt