Bristol Palin’s child is also illegitimate, is it still okay to refer to this class of person as a “bastard”?
Question by scenedean: Bristol Palin’s child is also illegitimate, is it still okay to refer to this class of person as a “bastard”?
Is bastard still okay or should I say “parentally challenged” or some other nebulous nomenclature?
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Answer by Toke Lover
Even if the kid’s parents were married, that poor thing would still be “parentally challenged”, not to mention “grandmotherly challenged”!!!
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Just use “illegitimate.”
Sarah Palin is the grandmother of a little bastard and the mother of a little retard. These expressions are honest and to the point. If Sarah can drag “her little retarded baby” around for photo ops and use him as a prop for sympathy and points, then why would it NOT be appropriate to call a spade a spade?
The definition of “bastard” is a child born out of wedlock.
The definition of “retard” is one suffering from mental retardation. According to the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV),[6] three criteria must be met for a diagnosis of mental retardation: an IQ below 70, significant limitations in two or more areas of adaptive behavior (as measured by an adaptive behavior rating scale, i.e. communication, self-help skills, interpersonal skills, and more), and evidence that the limitations became apparent before the age of 18.
It is formally diagnosed by professional assessment of intelligence and adaptive behavior.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/29/trig-paxson-van-palin-sar_n_122474.html
I completely agree with the other member who suggested that you simply content yourself with the term “illegitimate” when referring to Bristol Palin’s child. It is not, and has never really been among nice people, okay to refer to a person as a “bastard”.
Think how thrilled you would be if someone referred to you either as an illegitimate child or a bastard one. Why don’t you just think of Bristol Palin’s child as a CHILD?
It is difficult enough to be in the position of being the child of celebrity parents…perhaps no one needs to worsen the situation with adjectives like retarded, illegitimate, bastard, etc.
The only way to reverse a trend in the world towards being so unkind to each other is to begin with ourselves. We are all so guilty of unkindness to each other. We all need to make an effort to be much nicer, and carefully think about what we say and the effect it will have on someone.
Class has nothing to do with it.
The dictionary definition of “bastard” is a child “born out of wedlock”. Still, it seems quite cruel to label an innocent infant.
“Illegitimate” is probably a “better” label but why classify this child at all? In this day and age when so many children are being born to people who aren’t legally together, it seems that dropping the label altogether might be the best choice.
Now, Sarah Palin, on the other hand, IS politically, parentally and personally “challenged”…but that’s another category!
Illegitimate is the polite term and has only one meaning. Bastard on the other hand has become a term of abuse that can be directed against legitimate or illegitimate persons.
The use of retard is similar and mentally handicapped is better used to describe such people.
A more politically correct term to use would be “love child” while an alternate less offensive legal term, “non-marital”, refers to a child born to unmarried parents. Modern law gives the nonmarital child more legal rights, but it still differentiates between a child born to married parents and a child born to unmarried parents.
The United States Supreme Court has established that an illegitimate child has the same right to inherit a father’s estate as a legitimate child, even if such a provision is not made in the father’s will. A majority of the states give any child born of a union that has all the characteristics of a formal relationship the presumed entitlement of legitimate status. In other words, this is basically the equivalent to a common law marriage that presumes that if a man and woman 1) agree to be married, 2) cohabit, or live together, 3) and present themselves to other parties as married, they are married.
Whether such a child is born to Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, or John Edwards’ mistress, he or she deserves society’s respect. After all, the child shouldn’t be condemned by an act he or she didn’t commit.
P. S. — Pat Z and Minerva have the right idea; however, the legal profession has actually come up with a term that is less offensive than illegitimate; a child born out of wedlock is now a “non-marital” child. Of course, this may be similar to labeling a garbage collector a sanitation engineer.
The use of a ‘baton sinister’ is deemed sufficient these days.
Oh why categorize a person other than their humanity, which
,,is in the image of God
How does this relate to royalty?
The child of a so-called politician is NOT royalty.
The innocent child had nothing to do with being born to unwed parents, why label as such?
Yes it could be called a “bastard”. Although, the word illegitimate is more appropriate for our time. Many people consider “bastard” to be a “swear word”
Yes indeed Mr scenedean. I’ll wager the term “bastard” has long been used as a term of endearment. For example:
“Good morning, you old bastard. How the hell are you?”
“Good heavens, Johnny, you bastard, where have you been hiding?”
While the politically correct terms may well include illegitimate, that word conjures up even more unkind thoughts, to my way of thinking.
Some people may be offended if addressed in this way. Be sure to say it with a smile and I suspect they will not realise what you’re really thinking.