Almost all simple and common terms are now considered offensive, Skipy!

In order to avoid offending nowadays, one is obliged to concoct ridiculous, convoluted descriptive terms like: "physically challenged", mentally challenged" and so on...

This sort of thing was predicted long ago by writers like Orwell and Huxley. One of them called it Newspeak. It's a symptom of a certain kind of cultural fascism...given that the main modus operandus of fascism is to rule through fear.