"Go see shut-ins"?

[trof]

That's what our resident* just said.
Isn't that term sort of out of favor now?
Like cripples and retards?
Or am I just being too nit picky?

[omshanti]

1. it's still used in Black Southern churches

at the church my in-laws attend, they always have a list of 'sick and shut-in' members of the congregation.

Was it said in that context?

[trof]

5. Just on CNN

in another of his smarmy "whut Murkans need to do to hep each other out" speeches.
I haven't heard the term for a long time.
It ocurs to me that most former "shut-ins" aren't any more.

[comsymp]

2. Uh-oh, another retread

He did the shut-ins thing a couple years ago, 'cept we were supposed to go hug 'em then. If you dig around, there's a hilarious reference to it in one of Boudelang's columns.

[BurtWorm]

3. I wonder if he's going to visit Cheney

?

[DuctapeFatwa]

8. LOL

Good one!

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. I've never heard it used disparagingly

my cousin is a deacon who "prays with the shut-ins", for a year or so before she died my grandmother described herself as such. I've always seen it as a neutral description and not a slight.

My two cents.

[trof]

6. There's a very good chance

that I just have a hair trigger when it comes to anything this guy says.

[arwalden]

7. love people like you want to be loved yourself...

... it's probably just me... but that just sounds CREEPY. A little too sexual if you ask me.

But then, they keep telling me I'm perverted, so go figure.

-- Allen

[dfong63]

9. so, what's the politically-correct terminology du jour?

[Kat45]

10. No, it's not a disparaging term.

My church keeps a list of shut-ins among our congregation so people can check on them, visit them, etc.