Reply #31: I think it is possible [View All]

[DefenseLawyer]

for a word like "spaz", although derived from making fun of someone's disability, to move into the parlance of the playground and just become another interchangeable word that kids use to make fun of each other. So a kid says "way to go, spaz", he could just as easily say "way to go nerd, doofus, numbnuts (insert your own infantile slang here). Now none of those are nice things to say, but my point is that the original specific meaning is probably lost. I am relatively certain it is in that way that Woods described himself as a "spaz". Now my take is, if someone takes offense, and you can just as easily say something else, say something else. But I don't label Woods intolerant for his choice of self deprecation.