Free Returns Are Complicated, Laborious, and Gross
Over the past few years, I&#x27;ve grown so accustomed to seeing &quot;gross&quot; become the new &quot;problematic&quot;.  Magic words that you sprinkle into headines or comments, in order to trigger credibility from a certain audience that is pre-conditioned to agree when they see that word.<p>It&#x27;s been interesting to watch &quot;problematic&quot;, a very dry and clinical sounding term, evolve into &quot;gross&quot;, a far more openly moralistic declaration.  The shift reflects a lot about trends in progressive thought and discourse itself over the past decade.<p>So much so, that it was actually jarring to discover that the headline <i>actually</i> meant... &quot;gross&quot;!  As in, there are references to dead animals, etc in the body text.  It&#x27;s been so long since I&#x27;ve seen the word used in its classic sense, it was surprising!