sorry
Marta Russell
ap888 at lafn.org
Mon Sep 2 10:49:44 PDT 2002
>
>I don't buy that "lame" is a slur in the same way that "retard" or "gimp"
>would be, since the latter have a history of use as pejoratives, while
>"lame" was traditionally a colloquial alternative to "disabled" and usually
>applied not to humans but to hurt animals. When I hear the word "lame", I
>think mostly of its use applied to hurt horses. So a lame magazine in
>modern slang is a hurt magazine.
A lame magazine is a worthless magazine.
I think lame was used by Dickens in A Christmas Carol to describe
Tiny Tim. So in the disability community it is equated with not only
humans but the entire pity parade attitudes that ensued to raise
charity money for the lame, the crippled, those who industry refused
to hire.
My work is not based much on language but there are other scholars
who would disagree with your point here.
Marta
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Marta Russell
Los Angeles, CA
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