to politely request people stop using the word 'moron'

[opionated]

it was a medical term

But if I discovered that a word I used upset people I would do my best not to use it. What's so hard about that? Why would you carry on using a word once you realised that it made other people sad? Be kind is a good rule for life

Oh please. Yes it sounds nice but really? People using text speak makes me sad, people using words like hubby and yummy. Like we said, to some people calling men men makes them very sad, and angry.

You don't actually mean that you don't use words that others don't like. You mean that you don't use words that YOU dont like and smugly tell yourself how kind you are.

No thank you

"Could of" and "hun" offends me but I don't start sanctimonious threads urging people not to say it.......

They don't seem to be telling themselves how kind they are, other people who have experienced those words as insults are telling them they are kind.

But mostly WHEN?

You honestly can't think of any situation where you might want to remark on someones lack of intelligence?

Just wondering how people feel about the word "disingenuous".......

I might have known this thread would feature whining about the professionally offended, wilful misunderstanding and taking the piss out of the OP.

It's not a medical term. It's from the Greek for foolish. Jesus wept you must be determined to get offended

I might have known this thread would feature whining about the professionally offended, wilful misunderstanding and taking the piss out of the OP.

If the various caps fit.....

zzzzz

You do know that there's no observer effect in relation to a person's intelligence or stupidity, right? Even if you were to prevent every person on Earth thinking it or saying it, the moron in question would still be a moron. Reality doesn't care about a person's feelings.

I have often asked the “political correctness gone mad” contingent what they would like to say that they feel they can’t. To date, nobody has been able to give an example that wasn’t racist, sexist, homophobic or disablist. Maybe this time it will be different?

I'd like to say that biological men are men, and biological women are women. There we are, not racist, sexist, homophobic, or disablist - wasn't so hard now, was it?

Give us a few examples of situations where rating another’s intelligence and using their lack of it is needed?

Really? REALLY???

Are you so saintly, so very perfect that you've never, ever, ever remarked upon someone doing something silly??

Because I'm afraid I call Bullshit......

Maybe this time it will be different?

It is different - the word is being used as per it's original meaning - foolish......

HTH

zzzzz - the point being that the authoritarian language-police seem to think that controlling language will somehow alter reality. But all it actually achieves is to make social discourse a sullen, constricting arena without helping the people you think you're helping.

The use of the word moron has changed, as is the beauty of our language. It now is generally used for idiots who can't drive / don't drive safely.

Why do you care what words people use? I really don't need my speech to be policed.

OP have you spelled "opinionated" wrong

I would like to have a free society in which people are free to speak their mind, and other people are free to disagree with them in whatever terms they choose. We could call it 'The Enlightenment'. Mindblowing concept, eh?

I don’t think anyone wants to police language. It’s just that nice people avoid language that upsets others.

It’s just that nice people avoid language that upsets others.

But don't you see how specious that anodyne sentiment is? I get upset by all kinds of language - language relating to socialism, or Jeremy Corbyn, or the suppression of free speech. But do I have the right to demand that other people shut up about them just because they upset me, and that if they refuse that proves they are not nice people? Of course I fucking don't!