This is an amazing article. I fight an uphill battle with friends and family members of all ages to dissuade them from using that word. It's so common that we don't even realize we're doing it most times...

Thanks for this added "ammunition"!

Words can often be difficult.  A word that starts out as a disinterested descriptor often becomes pejorative or derogatory as time goes on.    Another example of this, is when people say a  church is "vacant".   It seems rather innocent to say that a church is vacant if you understand that they simply don't have a preacher/pastor/minister.   But I find the term quite offensive, since it implies that the church is empty-headed, or is empty, or diabled, or that there is no one there, as if the elders and visiting preachers, and the singing members and sunday school teachers somehow do not matter.   Or as if Christ is not there.  The church really is not vacant.   The church is really the people of God.   They are still there.  They still conduct worship, teach sunday school and catechism, and look after facilities, and the attenders are really, actually, truly there, in person.   The church and the pulpit are still filled and occupied(not vacant), and God is still worshipped.