^^I understand what you're saying. In my mind, "this man came in, and he was drunk," is different from "this drunk came in." The first way focuses on the behavior, and the second puts a label on the man. But saying it the first way is using more words to describe the same event. My husband thinks he's ONLY saying it in a shorter and more efficient way. He likes to cut to the chase and conserve words.

By the way, there are some times when the person's skin color or sexual orientation is part of the story. My husband is a bus driver. If a passenger tries to ride the bus with an expired pass, starts cussing when my husband tells them the pass is outdated, and then says, "You're only giving me a hard time because I'm XYZ," then the fact that the passenger is XYZ matters. Because the *passenger* brought it up.