How about setting an example for society and YOUR CHILDREN and just stop using them. The “R” Word, racial slurs, all of them. There is never a time or place for them. Ever. You aren’t being cute or funny when you use them. It just makes you look like an uneducated, insensitive JERK.
http://themavenofsocialmedia.com/2012/01/the-r-word/
Out finding a dress for my beautiful 37 year old Down Syndrome daughter today, at a Bridal Store. Ours is a dress for a dance routine and recital, others shopping for home town Proms. Three high school girls(2 sisters and a friend) trying on dresses inthe room next to ours,(that we were invited to share with a sweet high schooler). Everyone of the young girls were polite and commenting on Marcy’s choices, then one of the girls next to us ask her mother to come help her get out of her dress. Mothers response: “What are you a retard that you can’t get out of a dress?”
Daggers flew from my eyes, our dressing room friends mother just gasp with disbelief and looked at me.
My response (rather loudly and directed at the stupid woman); “Disabilities ARE excepted in public, ignorance is NOT…”.
I rest my case.