Gay retards

First off let me preface this by declaring an interest — I am the father of an autistic boy. This isn't the s anymore, most people don't use those words to mean the offensive context anymore. . Hungary deepened its repression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people on March 18 as the parliament passed a draconian law that will outlaw Pride .

I think not. But the real discomfort of the play lies in an area which may well be quite unintended by Bartlett but which says much about our easy tolerance — still — of bullying the weak. A typical London theatre audience: white, young and at least two of them actually reading The Guardian. Aptly enough for a odd minute tight, taut, vicious, nasty and bleak bout of bullying-in-suits as playwright Mike Bartlett blasts into watercooler office politics as social Darwinism, where the weak will be mercilessly bullied to oblivion because the strong must prevail.

Could be Bartlett is making a clever point rather brilliantly here, inviting the audience to fall into the trap by pulling a cheap laugh because disability discrimination is still basically ok whereas racism or homophobia is not ok. Skip to main news content Skip to news search Skip to news navigation Skip to Channel 4 navigation. According to Oxford English Dictionary editor Jesse Sheidlower, "gay" and "retard" occupy parallel linguistic positions when it comes to schoolyard trash talk.

Or, god forbid, he was Muslim or Jewish. It details widespread bullying and . Two Retards Fighting is a viral reaction image of a YouTube thumbnail for a video titled "Two retards fighting," showing an image of two boys outside in what appears to be a backyard about to fight. Suddenly we are all complicit, exposed.

After thorough research, we can say that there is no such place named “Gay Retard National Park.” The image that has been circulating on the internet is actually a photoshopped picture of the Grand Canyon National Park, situated in Arizona. Because each of the above insults caused loud laughs from the audience. But a string of disability insults? I doubt it somehow. It comes from one of the officer tormentors — Isobel — who routinely ridicules her target, Thomas, with a persistent line of disability abuse.

And how they laughed…. Did Bartlett just chicken out of that one I wonder? How do you discourage this?. The word ‘gay’ is still the word ‘gay,’ and ‘retarded’ is still ‘retarded,’ and you are still insulting a group of people when using these words with a negative connotation. Most historians agree that there is evidence of homosexual activity and same-sex love, whether such relationships were accepted or persecuted, in every documented culture.

Of course the intended effect is for us to be further horrified by this pencil-skirt-and-stilettoed monster. Tweets by alextomo. And that message is far bleaker than anything the play itself has to say. I'm talking about the words themselves, and the straight able-bodied people that have a problem with them. Read more from Alex Thomson on Twitter: alextomo.

First off, I want to say that calling a gay person a faggot or a disabled person a retard is wrong, my post is not trying to state otherwise. When I hear someone use those words, I assume they're in the modern context. Gay Retard National Park or Grand Canyon National Park? This report documents the range of abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in secondary school.

Sexual orientation is a component of identity that includes sexual and emotional attraction to another person and the behavior and/or social affiliation that may result from this attraction. Literally so, since the set is a boxing ring. Retard means stupid and faggot means an annoying douche (see South Park episode). It is thoughtful stuff albeit delivered with all the deliberate unsubtlety of a DM steel-toe in the face.

After thorough research, we can say that there is no such place named “Gay Retard National Park.” The image that has been circulating on the internet is actually a photoshopped picture of the Grand Canyon National Park, situated in Arizona. Sexual orientation refers to an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes.

20 also noted that, in dire situations, gay men with ID have exercised self-harm, either intentionally ending one's life or attempted suicide, to alleviate emotional distress and combat the stigma associated with internalized homophobia. Anyone else feel like you're fighting a losing battle when it comes to teaching kids not to call each other 'retard' or 'gay'?

D'Augelli and Hershberger 19 and Rotheram-Borus et al. The answer is both no and yes. Did Bartlett simply bottle it too with all those artistic possibilities? What do you do when your students regularly use inappropriate terms in the classroom, such as “retard” or “gay?” Recently, teacher Emily wrote into the WeAreTeachers HELPLINE regarding this issue. Except it spectacularly failed.