If it's used to hurt someone, it's not funny. My guess is that people see the movie, think the word's funny and use it, and somebody who's been called that will hear it and feel hurt.

I don't give a rat's ass about people's offended sensibilities. I care plenty about not hurting folks though. I suspect there isn't anyone alive who hasn't been made fun of at some point. It causes reactions from embarrassment to downright terror, and I've felt the extreme myself. I can't imagine what it must be like to deal with that daily. I won't use the word. Poking fun at people who DO use it isn't bad, and Little Hawk's chronicles of Shane are pretty good.

I also won't see the movie. I really don't think Ben Stiller's funny.

(Spaw, congrats on Tris's upgrade!)