Oxygen thief didn’t make the list.
Via Breitbart:
In 1972, comedian George Carlin delivered a monologue titled “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” that rocketed him to celebrity, but the self-censorship proposed for the “six hurtful words you should stop using” have nothing to do with Carlin’s naughty list.
They are rather “harmful, negative labels to describe ourselves and others,” according to psychiatrist Grant Hilary Brenner, and they come from “toxic places.”
“Words like selfish, stupid, spoiled, and lazy” can be more damaging than we realize, the article warns.
“These are dividing words, misunderstanding concepts, rather than language which joins and deepens mutuality and self-relationship,” Brenner asserts, and their use constitutes “an act of linguistic violence.”
The word “lazy,” for instance, “suggests there’s something fundamentally wrong with you if you can’t work hard,” Brenner writes, while “the answer may simply be to give yourself smaller goals.”
Other labels that should be removed from our vocabulary are “bored,” “hypocrite,” and “spoiled,” Brenner suggests. Being spoiled “is actually the result of a complex relationship process, whether that dynamic plays out internally in self-labeling, or externally with close others,” Brenner said.