Have you heard about the new Ben Stiller and the controversy?  

I don't know the name of it, I just heard about this on the news tonight. It's a comedy and the word "retard" is used many times in it. Advocates for the mentally disabled are protesting and trying to have the movie banned. My feeling personally is that Ben Stiller should know better (he wrote the movie.) He's around the same age I am, and while he grew up with famous parents and that might have something to do with it, anybody our age who grew up in middle class America should remember how that word was so common when we were kids. Kids who today would be called "special" were called that by mean kids, and it was hateful. And it was often used towards ANY kid who momentarily got somebody else mad. I think it's now widely known as a really bad insult word and shouldn't be used in a comedy movie like this.