When I first heard "that's so gay" out of my kids mouth I was shocked. It took a while to expunge it from their vocabulary, but I haven't heard it in a long time now. In fact, my son, who has a drama class, was asked to memorize a solo part that had a dirogatory remark about queers in it and he told his teacher he was not comfortable saying it, and he rephrased it to be not so negative.
"Retarded" is a much more persistent word, though I try to discourage it's use as well.
Words DO have power. They can hurt, even kill. We should adapt a policy of giving as little pain as possible with our words.
Smooches,
Keri
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