The R-word Revolution?

You've probably heard about the newest movement to eradicate the use of
the "R-word" that is currently trending every which way.

The "R-word" being "Retarded".

It's become a "thing" to correct people who use it
much like the "N-word" and the "G-word".

This newest trend of political correctness only got our family's attention
because
we have Dean.
Dean is my special needs son, who, at twenty-six years old
is cognitively between 3 and 5 years old.
His development is truly "retarded" or "delayed".
But you know what?
He can sign the word "retarded"--
and he can say the word "retarded"
and he has been telling his siblings that they're "retarded"
for decades...
and he's usually spot-on when using it to describe one of his own siblings.
In fact, Mr W has said on numerous occassions that Deano is not that much
different than the rest of our yahoos.

The "R-word" is not a bad word in our house--
it's a funny one...
and it isn't offensive to us at all.

There are words that are used habitually in our society
that ARE offensive and for whatever reason,
they don't get attention at all.
The word that offends my senses the very most
is the "F-word".
I cringe when I hear it
while standing in line at a store, a restaurant, a movie theater, etc.
It's used in music lyrics, movie productions, and literature.
Disgusting.
And yet,
there are no posters lining the high school walls
declaring it to be offensive.
I don't get it.

The "B-word" is equally offensive.
Where are the posters for that?
There's even a new TV show with the acronym "GCB"
which stands for "Good Chr*stian B*tches"--
where is the backlash for that?

Where is the movement to remove these words from our vocabulary?

Seriously,
the things that people decide to put their time and money into
bewilders me.

I don't think I have ever once heard the word
"retarded" used in public.
It may be used in middle school or high school--
but I hear other curse words prolifically by young kids
much more often than the "R-word".

It is unbalanced.
We don't blink at the elephants in the room,
but issue a call to arms
for the fruit-fly that is flitting about in the bananas.

It's just silly.
Retarded even.