My father already regarded me as hopelessly stupid: hence his favorite pejorative for me, "goon boy." He also considered me genetically deficient, something better to have been discarded in an abortionist's garbage can: "You're just like your mother," he often said. "You have shit in your blood."

In its pejorative sense, a Neanderthal is someone who is considered to be old-fashioned and unwilling to 'get with it.' Neanderthal is also used as an insult meaning uncivilized.