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fandomsecrets2013-03-03 02:47 pm
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(Anonymous) 2013-03-04 03:27 am (UTC)(link)As I stated above, I guess I understand the sentiment - nobody likes being called "crazy" if they have actually experienced mental illness. But I don't see how it could be something that could be eradicated out of normal speech. (Again, I realize this is the same logic used in the past against derogatory racial or sexual slurs, but still.) Like, calling someone out on their use of the word "gay" meaning stupid or "retarded", I get. That feels like something that COULD be taken out of modern slang - most kids are getting the memo that it's hurtful, even if they don't give two shits. Removing the word "crazy" or "psycho" from modern vocabulary, when it honestly will trigger such a small number of people in the IRL world, feels like fighting a losing battle.
Just my opinion - I don't have any "standing" in the disabled or mentally-ill communities, but I still got one. Just like I have an opinion on the trans* equality, racial equality, and income equality battles going on.
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(Anonymous) 2013-03-04 04:33 am (UTC)(link)I don't have an issue with "crazy", though I guess I can understand why some people would. It's generic enough and sufficiently disconnected from mental illness as such that it seems like a lot less trouble to let it go on its way as a general adjective and not use it in reference to specific mental illnesses. I think we're well on the way to that already.
"Psychopath" feels to me like it's on the same level as "retarded". It used to be a technical term, and it was co-opted as an insult because the qualities it describes are considered negative. Use as an insult outstripped the technical use, and the technical terms were abandoned for less loaded words. (Which immediately started to become loaded, but so it goes.)