You just outlined everything I hate about this article, and soon to be, everything I despise about Jezebel. Thank you.

I agree with you on all points. Thanks you for sharing about your brother, too!!!

1. Yup

Huh... Not going to lie I don't think that I have ever read anything on an internet forum that has dictated the way I act and perceive the world so I think that this is a first. I have used the term retard or retarded as an insult before on a number of occasions, never as an attempt to describe or insult the genuinely…

Cognitive dissonance is shockingly common on Jezebel. I'm currently in an argument with a "feminist" who has no respect for women who take their husband's last name in marriage.

Agreed! When I saw that was the first sentence, I knew that this article would be terrible.

WHAT? Most everyone I know with an intellectual disability hates the word retarded. Unless they're using it with each other.

He used to use that line all the time as kids, and we would tell him if he knew well enough to explain it away with that excuse he knew well enough he was being naughty in the first place so it didn't hold water! One Christmas when he was very young he took all the chocolate decorations off the tree and ate them: we…

I forgot to mention that my younger sister also has profound and multiple intellectual disabilities, but unlike your brother she isn't able to advocate for herself very much. She and I don't have the same sibling relationship as my older sister and I do, but we do have one. An awesome one. One based on mutual…

Sometimes the "poor them" is as bad as the mocking because nope, just people who are different maybe - I always love when people say to me "oh but people with Down's syndrome are so loving, is your brother very affectionate" and I get to say "oh yes. When he's not telling me I'm a fucking bitch, that is" we fight like…

You and your brother sound like total badasses.

I had a labiaplasty.

Have to agree with you. Plus the feigned outrage in this article is absurd.

I'm not surprised. Jez has been going down hill for a while now.

I have no idea how I should feel about this.

It is indeed cringeworthy. Ugh, indeed.

This. If you express bigotry towards anyone, you're hurting the fight against every other type of bigotry. This means being ableist makes you a bad feminist, and you should be ashamed.

Thank you, you caught that before I had a chance to post about it. I expect more out of Jezebel writers.

Holy shit. Are you seriously using the word "retarded" to describe something negative? Wow, grow up. I don't want to read feminist bloggers who fail to understand ableism, too. Jezebel: Get your shit together if this is the type of writer you publish.

Why oh why are people still using the word "retarded"??!?!?! It makes you sound so ignorant. Please stop. It makes me cringe to read it in an article like this or pretty much anywhere else it is used. Ugh.