I get it; you don’t like labels and try to come up with one of your own. That much is fine, so just make some damn sense when providing your own labels. A label is still a label, so saying a scientific classification is offensive is, well, offensive. If you’re under 4’10”, roughly 147cm, and your body is properly proportioned, then you’re a midget, plain and simple. If you’re short and your body isn’t properly proportioned, then you’re a dwarf and probably suffer from one or more of the couple hundred forms of dwarfism. It’s that simple, really. If you’re really, really short and from Africa, then you might be a pygmy. It’s not that hard to figure out.
I’ve heard dwarfs say the term midget is derogatory. On the contrary, it’s no different than calling someone a giant just because they’re tall, or maybe goliath if they’re big as well…
Nov 05 2009
Curse the “little people”
Oct 10 2009
Cute
If there is one word in the entire scope of the English language and off the variants, off-shoots, creoles, slang, and just gibberish that I loath above all else, a single word in the over a billion words in the language, it’s the word cute. No word is as frivolous, and without meaning. I have asked many people, primarily females since they are by far more likely to use it, what their definition of it is. Most say adorable and I must interject that a real definition extends beyond only using a synonym. They look dumbfounded and say it can’t be done. Here in lies my point.
I have received definitions for this word as if some schizophrenic decided to play Jeopardy! one day and crossed it with Scrabble and just shot craps loaded on LSD.
“Something I want to eat.”
“Something that reminds me of a baby.”
“Something that I find attractive.”
“Something not…