Reply #50: Spaz and spaz attack [View All]

[Karenina]

were just doofus teenie slang in my day UNTIL Mark Sharp entered our 8th grade class. Mark was super intelligent, a sharp wit and just a LOVE who had a severe disability. We ALL worried about him so when he was absent from class with his various challenges. If he was away too long we went to his home to reassure ourselves that he'd be back in class soon. Those phrases were IMMEDIATELY DROPPED from our collective vernacular as the very idea of using language that might in ANY WAY cause him more pain than he was in was simply unthinkable.

Bleeding heart liberals? Self-censorship? Overly PC??? NO, just a bunch of 13 year olds who immediately found less potentially hurtful words to express the same idea. Mark could use the word as he pleased. The rest of us DID NOT. His favorite expression was, "WHIP IT ON ME!!!" :rofl: