Can we please stop using "guitard"?

[Fleebag]

Irony alert.

Yep, you got me.

 

[Schlyder]

Go pound sand with your political correctness.

 

[SiSoldier]

Here you go

 

[Hamish MacCleod]

I think the OP should make a poll and list all the derogatory names for guitarists, we could then prioritize from most offensive to least offensive kind of like "imbecile, moron, and idiot" all refer to different levels of intellectually stifled persons.
Rondo

 

[MeLikeBass]

This PC crap continues for much longer we won't be able to refer to people as men, women, boys and girls... Oh and Target will lead the way
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[DwaynieAD]

1) "guitard" implies the word "******". I don't need to explain how offensive that is. Even the term "********" is dated and offensive.

2) the guitarists I work with are talented, considerate professionals and I like them personally

3) "guitard" promotes a separateness, an otherness....an "us vs. them" vibe that just isn't good

This comes up every couple months, basically... Put on your grown up pants and get over it.

 

[bolophonic]

This PC crap continues for much longer we won't be able to refer to people as men, women, boys and girls... Oh and Target will lead the way
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This offends you? I will cry my next tear for you.

 

[hyp.spec]

 

[MeLikeBass]

This offends you? I will cry my next tear for you.

Doesn't offend, its just moronic, at best.

 

[Funk³]

Not even for the sake of people with developmental/intellectual disabilities? Or people with children, loved ones or friends with developmental/intellectual disabilities?

I'm sure there are Talkbass members with developmental/intellectual disabilities.

So a play on words of the word r*t*rd makes you upset? I'm sorry if this comes across as offensive (which it probably will do), but get a grip. Life isn't all candy and rainbows. It's not swearing, it's not really hateful, and it won't cause wide-spread rioting.

 

[48thStreetCustom]

Doesn't offend, its just moronic, at best.

As a moron, I'm offended by your post.

 

[bolophonic]

Doesn't offend, its just moronic, at best.

Why? Personally, I find it more moronic that some people need signs to tell them what is appropriate to buy for their children when they go to the store.

 

[lfmn16]

There is nothing that can be said that is so innocuous that it won't offend somebody.

 

[Guiseppe]

Dude ... where do you find such people?

Do they have a pointy little horn and fart glitter rainbows?

 

[Joedog]

WWDTS
What would Donald Trump say? LOL
As he is big in real estate, and wacked, would that make him a REtar-?

 

[JimmyM]

Well then they aren't guitards. What I find offensive is someone trying to modify my behavior by telling me what I can or cannot say, enough of the pc crap. You are implying that it's used to specifically degrade those who are disabled. A little insensitive to them, sure, while we're at it lets ban the use of the word stupid as it's degrading to anyone with low intelligence. And I find your use of the term douche bag offensive to women as it refers to a necessary hygienic practice.

Yeah, I used to think like that. Then I grew up. Lose a couple good friends to your "refreshing lack of political correctness" and it tends to make you rethink if it's worth it.

 

[mdogs]

I am offended by the so easily offended.

 

[FerruleCat]

Don't think of it as "Political Correctness;" think of it as a little F***ing courtesy.

 

[JimmyM]

I am offended by the so easily offended.

You bring up a good point. Don't you anti-PC people even dare to go there with this whining about how people are wusses for being offended by your lack of political correctness. Look how offended you all are over someone even daring to politely suggest that using terms like "dufus" isn't a good thing. YOU are as thin-skinned and easily offended as anyone offended by your offensiveness. Pot, meet kettle.

 

[kenneffdupriest]

name calling is a sign of immaturity.