Originally Posted by SteveZ

I guess I'm just not that "sensitive."

Too many folk get wrapped around the axle on terms, sayings, names, et cetera. My feeling is that it's not the term, but how you mean it. Someone can call me a "nice guy" and get my dander up just by the tone of his/her voice. Others can call me an SOB and we'll both laugh and have a beer later.

All in the family was one of my favorite shows. The most maligned person on the show was the Archie Bunker character. He took all the heat as being "ignorant, insensitive, etc.," but the reality was it was he who went to work every day, supported his spouse, "princess" daughter and her more-intellectual-than-thou husband who looked his nose down at the household elder yet never backed away from the the food someone else's work put on the table.