There is something in this recent discussion that is bothering me.

There was a thread in the last couple of weeks about a celebrity who was being blackmailed.

One poster referred to the son of this celebrity using a pejorative - because the parents were not married at the time of the child's birth. I tried to respond using the same pejorative for the grandson of a recently failed politician. But I just could not hit the enter key.

I don't think children should be labeled because of their parents. I don't think this dated word should be used today. It is demeaning and irrelevant.

I thought someone else would say something. But no one did. And I wonder why?