On Sun, 13 May 2012 22:44:01 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> On 5/13/2012 21:25, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Sun, 13 May 2012 19:40:37 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>>
>>> That's just the political correctness showing.
>>
>> Or a sympathetic response to being the target of name-calling.
> 
> Possibly. I got over mine, tho. :-)

<shrug>  I've mostly gotten over mine as well, but it's easy to paint 
something like this as "political correctness gone awry" without 
considering other possible alternatives.

Charged words carry meaning.  "Freak" is a charged word.

Jim

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