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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9360607" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>I do agree.  There are words that have either evolved away from their origins or have become so commonplace in their usage that any attempts to get those words changed or removed from common parlance are facing incredibly uphill battles.  Even besides the words used formerly for mental challenges, there are a whole bunch of misogynistic terms that are used nowadays to denote either cowardice or complaint (I need not repeat them, I'm sure people can infer which words I'm speaking of) that might very well at some point have their proponents trying to remove the 'female=bad' dysphemism terms from our vernacular.  I actually think that wouldn't be a bad thing, but I just do not know how difficult that would be to change that many people's natural reflexive instincts for using those words.</p></blockquote><p></p>