Can we please stop using "guitard"?

[Bob Coldwell]

I jumped right to the end of this thread to say that I agree with the OP. Come on, people. Grow up.

 

[sharkbait130]

If the shoe fits , you should probably wear it......or , you can walk through the thorn patch barefoot. Your choice.

 

[TimboZ]

Is it OK to call my bass a Frankenbass.

 

[swamp_bass]

I CAME HERE FOR THE BOOBS!

...oops, wrong thread.

 

[mongo2]

I play guitar and the term "guitard" doesn't bother me at all. Neither does the term "basstard".

Is there a term "keytard"? Doesn't matter, if there was it wouldn't bother me either.

 

[megafiddle]

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.

Those signs aren't intended to be advice.

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[Frenchy-Lefty]

Do they call us "basstards" in guitar forums?

 

[bolophonic]

Those signs aren't intended to be advice.

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What?

 

[Spectrum]

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.

Pro tip for you on using the internet, begging people to stop being mean on the internet never ends well.

 

[loveandbass]

Have the mods weighed in at all on this?

 

[Chris 'Wighat' Jordan]

I find your use of the term douche bag offensive to women as it refers to a necessary hygienic practice.

"Necessary hygienic practice"? Good lord! LOL. I am on girlfriend #6,758 and I have not once seen or heard of a douche-anything.

 

[Don Kasper]

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

Would "Guitiot" be an acceptable replacement?

Thanks.

 

[megafiddle]

What?

Most people know what they want; they simply want to know where it's located.

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[SanDiegoHarry]

TB is now PC??

sigh.

 

[Chris 'Wighat' Jordan]

Pro tip for you on using the internet, begging people to stop being mean on the internet never ends well.

I'm not begging for anything and I actually don't know anyone with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Just bringing attention to the specific insensitivity, if not loathsome cruelty, of the word.

 

[Spectrum]

"Necessary hygienic practice"? Good lord! LOL. I am on girlfriend #6,758 and I have not once seen or heard of a douche-anything.

Oh man, where to even begin with that one...

 

[Tractorr]

You know what? The term was funny the first time I heard it. Now it is a worn out joke.

"But I have the right to be a jerk to repeat a joke that isn't funny anymore and may legitimately hurt people who have been affected by this condition, waa waa!"

 

[unclebass]

Most jokes about musicians are about how broke bass players are, doesn't strike me as offensive. In fact, I find most of them funny. Too much political correctness today. We're so afraid to offend anybody that we tiptoe around with all of this soft language.
I am overweight, and calling me stout, pleasantly plump, or husky doesn't change the fact that I AM FAT!! Calling it a landfill doesn't change the fact that it is a DUMP. Call things what they are. The word ******** means that something is a little behind where it should be...and there are many of us out there that fit this description. It should only be offensive to you if someone says it with malicious intent. I have friends and family members that are ******** and I love them to death. Not every guitar player is a guitard, but they are definitely out there.

 

[obimark]

No. PC is what is destroying my country. And the person you describe isn't a guitard anyhow.

 

[Milo's]

I don't find it politically correct to wish that people in this society would stop using terms like dufus to define my niece who is a wonderful, caring, beautiful, thoughtful girl who happens to have downs syndrome. Using terms like guitard, even while in jest only help to propagate the use of the word dufus. I'm not going to tell ignorant people to stop saying anything, and I'm far from a liberal bleeding heart, but I would hope that people would eventually come to realize that using a word like that is the equivalent of saying guifaggot or something equally worse or offensive.

Political correctness is certainly out of hand in many instances. I used to use such words until someone with a developmental disability came into my life and proved to me that negative hurtful words could never define how unique and incredible she truly is.

People can go on saying that term all they want. Far be it from me to tell someone to stop appearing ignorant.