The cutoff for being able to say this in a movie?

Asked by CunningFox (1397

) December 11th, 2015

So I’m watching the ‘Nancy Drew’ movie which is from 2007, and at one point this girl says “I didn’t get the memo about the party being a retarded theme.” which I thought was hilarious but at the same time I was like “Oh no she didn’t!”.

I know it’s a movie and you can say whatever the heck you want in it, but this is like a G rated movie intended for kids and with the especially politically correct society we live in now, I was surprised by this considering the circumstances!

I’m guessing they wanted to include it in the movie because it’s something a realistic teenager might say.

I don’t really know what I’m asking here, maybe your thoughts on political correctness in movies nowadays or information you know about the time cutoff for when we started getting really picky about what words are acceptable to use? Just any thoughts or discussion?

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Well, that’s it, isn’t it? You want to accurately portray kids, who use an abundance of inappropriate humor, while still adhering to politically correct tastes. Seems like an impossibility.
I am annoyed by movies that avoid kids saying awkward and tasteless comments. I love the fact that, in E.T., the Extra Terrestrial, the boy calls his brother “penis breath”.

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Spread the Word to End the Word has been around since at least 2012 that I know of.

We said retarded all the time when I was a kid. So much so that I recently blurted it out in conversation. No one batted an eye. I don’t know which is more embarrassing.

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