On its blog the other day, New York Magazine made a plea to Madonna: “Not to get all preachy and PC on you, but we think maybe it’s time for you to stop using the word ‘retarded’ so much.”
From the blog:
We’re writing you this open letter because we just happened to read a quote from you in this week’s Rolling Stone. You said, “I’ve never been a good judge of what things are going to be huge or not. The songs that I think are the most retarded songs I’ve written, like ‘Cherish’ and ‘Sorry,’ a pretty big hit off my last album, end up being the biggest hits. ‘Into the Groove’ is another song I feel retarded singing, but everybody seems to like it.” Then, a while back, you maybe called your ex-husband Guy Ritchie “emotionally retarded” at a concert in front of thousands of people.
Is Madonna being totally harmless, or totally not OK? What do you think?