The Sunday Mercury suggests that Albion lost their match because they were hobbled, halt, crippled. Why anyone would be surprised that such a football team might lose is puzzling…
Wired thinks sadly boring parties can not only not persuade you to dance, but can’t even walk.
The Berkeley Beacon accuses Perry of being stupid. I won’t argue with that. But the paper needs to look to its own intelligence: insulting a whole class of people will not win them votes.
New York Times finds Hindi movie script ‘lame’. Trying to picture a screenplay limping down the street…
The Frisky thinks ‘lame’ means badly dressed.
The Hollywood Reporter doesn’t like racism. Good. Nor do we. But they don’t understand that ableism sucks too.
A politician might be a fool but he is not ‘lame’ unless he has difficulty walking.
The Village Voice thinks it’s okay to insult people with disabilities by using ‘lame’ to mean ‘poorly produced’.
It’s not okay. It pisses me off.
It’s never okay to use ‘lame’ as an insult.
It is not okay to use ‘lame’ as an insult
A huge percentage of people have some kind of walking disability. Whenever we see the word ‘lame’ used to mean ‘pathetic’ or ‘inadequate’ or ‘laughable’, we feel insulted.
We want you to stop using ‘lame’ as a term of ridicule.
To that end, we’ve created this Lame Wall of Shame. We encourage people to post links.
(Source: asknicola.blogspot.com)
Why using ‘lame’ to mean ‘pathetic’ or ‘inadequate’ etc. is a discriminatory insult. This link will explain why. Please read it.
