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Originally Posted by Teresa Ford  I am of the older generation and furbaby, furkid seem weird to me. We have called them our dogs, Doggy Babies, Yorkie Babies or just babies for as long as I can remember. I do not have any prejudice in my heart and am a love child of the 1960s and an old hippie but, am not always caught up on new ways of saying things.
My 21 year old granddaughter gently corrects me when I say something not used anymore like: my grandfather was an Indian, one doesn't own a dog, little people are not called dwarfs, you never say colored person when talking about a child with interracial parents, homosexuals are referred to as gay, and gender can be a choice now ( ? ) Unwed parent, is single parent. A bad person, is damaged. A poor person is never lazy, always underprivileged, I am not fat but, overweight. Christian does not mean a person who loves Jesus, but means someone who is old fashioned and judgmental. Sigh.... I could go on and on but I might say something that is not bad, I mean cool, I mean.............. |
this could be another thread... I do think it is going BACK to the way it was when some of us were children for some of the terms..
some I agree with the change - I am glad some terms are not as judgemental or cruel as before,
some are just dated and like you said not viewed as cool,
while some ..ok if it a pig, smells like a pig, looks like a pig etc why can't we call it a pig?? (now.. i just used the animal pig for an example.. I like pigs, nothing against pigs and wasn't thinking that they were representing anything!)