Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on television

Collarspace Discussion Forums

Home Login Search

Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on television

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on television

Page: [1] 2 next > >>

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on tel... - 7/8/2009 12:46:46 PM

slaveboyforyou

Posts: 3607
Joined: 1/6/2005
From: Arkansas, U.S.A.
Status: offline

quote:

Little People of America, at its annual conference in Brooklyn this week, has called for the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word "midget" on broadcast TV.

"The word 'midget' objectifies you," said Clinton Brown, 27, of Hicksville, who co-chaired this year's conference at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott in Downtown Brooklyn. "Growing up as a little person, because you're different, you experience the ups and downs of some cruelties and prejudices. How many times have people I don't know come up to me and wanted to pick me up?"

Brown said the group filed an official complaint with the FCC.

In April, Little People of America protested an episode of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice," in which contestants created a detergent ad called "Jesse James and the Midgets." The contestants, including Joan Rivers, suggested bathing little people in the detergent and hanging them to dry.

http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-lilitt0612945347jul05,0,5838605.story[/link]

I don't know, but I think the term 'little people' sounds much, much sillier than midget.

Profile

Post #: 1

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 2:50:44 PM

slaveluci

Posts: 4294
Joined: 3/2/2007
From: Little Rock, AR
Status: offline

So they feel objectified and pissed? I wanna puke everytime I hear words on TV (or radio or see them in magazines, books or even forums like these) like white trash, hillbilly, etc. that "objectify" and belittle people like me and mine. Society thinks it's cute and funny and enlightened to look down its collective nose at some people so whaddya gonna do? Life offers no guarantees that we won't ever be hurt, offended, or objectified. The people who are on the receiving end of such words just have to realize the ignorance of those saying them and move on.

If "midget" bothers them, they can express that to people and ask them not to refer to them as such. But, "banning" a word? I hate to start down THAT slippery slope. Even the "N" word is allowed and acceptable (to some) as long as only certain folks say it. Restricting free speech just ain't the route we should ever take................luci

_____________________________

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list. ~John Aikin

(in reply to slaveboyforyou)

Profile

Post #: 2

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 4:24:56 PM

slaveboyforyou

Posts: 3607
Joined: 1/6/2005
From: Arkansas, U.S.A.
Status: offline

Hell, I didn't even know that dwarves had an organization with a huge convention. I wish I was in New York, I would have loved to have seen a bunch of midgets walking around. I only see one every once in awhile.

It's just hillarious. I know it's not PC, but midgets and fat guys are just plain funny. Sorry, I can't help it.

< Message edited by slaveboyforyou -- 7/8/2009 4:25:28 PM >

(in reply to slaveboyforyou)

Profile

Post #: 3

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 4:33:30 PM

Aileen1968

Posts: 6062
Joined: 12/12/2007
From: I miss Shore, New Jersey
Status: offline

Heh heh heh

_____________________________

The Red

(in reply to slaveboyforyou)

Profile

Post #: 4

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 4:34:45 PM

windchymes

Posts: 9410
Joined: 4/18/2005
Status: offline

So, who do I petition to get people to be less freakin' sensitive to simple words???

_____________________________

You know it's going to be a GOOD blow job when she puts a Breathe Right strip on first.

Pick-up artists and garbage men should trade names.

(in reply to slaveboyforyou)

Profile

Post #: 5

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 4:44:46 PM

autoRelease

Posts: 69
Joined: 6/22/2009
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou

I don't know, but I think the term 'little people' sounds much, much sillier than midget.

Especially since little people originally referred to fairies.

I'm against banning words in general.

(in reply to slaveboyforyou)

Profile

Post #: 6

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 4:47:12 PM

pixidustpet

Posts: 857
Joined: 6/4/2008
Status: offline

my best friend in high school was officially one inch too tall to be classified as having dwarfism. one. inch. she's 4'6". she made me feel like a giant at 5'1".

i can see where the term would be offensive to some people. but i agree with slaveluci, how can we ban every word that is offensive to an individual (or a limited group of individuals)? blonde jokes would be gone. redheads being asked if the carpet matches the drapes would be gone. the word "retard" and its cousin "tard" would be gone (that might be a good thing).

you cannot sanitize and make all PC a language. when you do that, you lose the meaning of a special word....freedom.

kitten, getting back down off the soapbox.

(in reply to windchymes)

Profile

Post #: 7

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 4:53:05 PM

Rule

Posts: 10479
Joined: 12/5/2005
Status: offline

I think the whole dictionary ought to be banned. Let's start with the midget word 'a'. Anyone can see that it is a midget word and so by implication it is derogatory. It is also black. That is bad, I tell you. Hence for being black and bad, it is also discriminatory. It also has an enclosed space, like a prison cell. That is also bad. Even worse is that the prison gate is open. All kinds of criminals could escape from the open gate of the 'a'! It ought to be banned and by implication all words that have an 'a' in them ought to be banned.

I have not even started on telling you how bad the 'a' is. For example: it is utterly VAGUE: a man has eaten a banana? Who cares? Nobody cares about such an 'a'. Then there is the capital 'A'. Anyone with the slightest knowledge about fui sheng (or whatever it is called) immediately recognizes that it is like a sharp blade ready to draw blood from the text above it. That is very bad according to feng shui (or whatever). I cannot even tell you how bad the two legs of the 'A' are according to feng shui, because I do not know that much shui feng.

I am all for banning midgets and for banning any other words in the dictionary. I would backspace all of this, but unfortunately since I deleted that word from my dictionary, I no longer can recognize the backspace key...

< Message edited by Rule -- 7/8/2009 4:54:24 PM >

(in reply to slaveboyforyou)

Profile

Post #: 8

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 5:06:09 PM

DomImus

Posts: 2004
Joined: 3/17/2009
Status: offline

I have always been partial to 'troll'.

(in reply to slaveboyforyou)

Profile

Post #: 9

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 5:31:35 PM

MasterG2kTR

Posts: 6677
Joined: 8/7/2004
From: Wisconsin
Status: offline

How would they be able to broadcast sporting events like Midget Racing? or the ever popular Midget Wrestling? Dwarf Wrestling just doesn't sound right. And what about the MG Midget?

I had always understood there was a significant difference between dwarves and midgets. A dwarf is a person that has disproportionate body features. Commonly being arms and/or legs that are short with pronounced curvature, stubby fingers, all with an average sized (though appears oversized) head. A midget is a person who is very short in stature but has all body features fully proportioned with each other and no curvature of the limbs, and nimble slender fingers.

(in reply to DomImus)

Profile

Post #: 10

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 5:34:23 PM

sirsholly

Posts: 42360
Joined: 9/7/2007
From: Quietville
Status: offline

quote:

How would they be able to broadcast sporting events like Midget Racing? or the ever popular Midget Wrestling? Dwarf Wrestling just doesn't sound right. And what about the MG Midget?

Midget baseball?

_____________________________

PICKED UPON
TECHNO-DOLT
MEMBER OF THE SUBBIE MAFIA
GRACEFULLY CHALLENGED :::::splat:::::
BOOT WHORE
VAA/S FAN

GIVES GOOD HEART (Lushy)

CREATOR OF MAYHEM (practice)

(in reply to MasterG2kTR)

Profile

Post #: 11

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 5:45:28 PM

marie2

Posts: 1690
Joined: 11/4/2008
From: Jersey
Status: offline

I'm with luci and pixidust on this one. It's ridiculous to attempt to ban a particular word. On the other hand, if I met or knew of a midget person and they told me they were offended by the word, of course I wouldn't use it when speaking to them.

(in reply to sirsholly)

Profile

Post #: 12

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 5:52:14 PM

Level

Posts: 25145
Joined: 3/3/2006
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: sirsholly

quote:

How would they be able to broadcast sporting events like Midget Racing? or the ever popular Midget Wrestling? Dwarf Wrestling just doesn't sound right. And what about the MG Midget?

Midget baseball?

Eddie Gaedel

_____________________________

Fake the heat and scratch the itch
Skinned up knees and salty lips
Let go it's harder holding on
One more trip and I'll be gone

~~ Stone Temple Pilots

(in reply to sirsholly)

Profile

Post #: 13

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 6:45:39 PM

windchymes

Posts: 9410
Joined: 4/18/2005
Status: offline

I bet the MG Little Person goes the way of the Edsel....

< Message edited by windchymes -- 7/8/2009 6:46:08 PM >

_____________________________

You know it's going to be a GOOD blow job when she puts a Breathe Right strip on first.

Pick-up artists and garbage men should trade names.

(in reply to Level)

Profile

Post #: 14

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 7:05:52 PM

Level

Posts: 25145
Joined: 3/3/2006
Status: offline

Darby O'Gill called and said "Let my little people go!"

_____________________________

Fake the heat and scratch the itch
Skinned up knees and salty lips
Let go it's harder holding on
One more trip and I'll be gone

~~ Stone Temple Pilots

(in reply to windchymes)

Profile

Post #: 15

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 7:10:34 PM

ThatDamnedPanda

Posts: 6060
Joined: 1/26/2009
Status: offline

I'd tell them to stick it up their little bitty asses unless they tell me where they buried their pot of gold. Then I'll call them whatever they want to be called.

_____________________________

Panda, panda, burning bright
In the forest of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Made you all black and white and roly-poly like that?

(in reply to Level)

Profile

Post #: 16

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 7:12:12 PM

ThatDaveGuy69

Posts: 978
Joined: 6/22/2007
Status: offline

You rock!
Funniest damn post I've seen here in ages!

I've always been suspicious of little 'a', now I know why!

~Dave

_____________________________

He said I'd blown a seal. I said fix the damn thing and leave my private life out of this!
What happens in the event horizon STAYS in the Event Horizon!
I have zero tolerance for Zero Tolerance

(in reply to Rule)

Profile

Post #: 17

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 7:21:25 PM

slaveboy291

Posts: 329
Joined: 3/5/2006
Status: offline

Am I the only person who is suprised they haven't banned Frosty the snowman for promoting smoking?

The funny thing is, little people sounds a little patronising.

(in reply to ThatDaveGuy69)

Profile

Post #: 18

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 7:27:10 PM

Aylee

Posts: 24103
Joined: 10/14/2007
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: Level

Darby O'Gill called and said "Let my little people go!"

_____________________________

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam

I don’t always wgah’nagl fhtagn. But when I do, I ph’nglui mglw’nafh R’lyeh.

(in reply to Level)

Profile

Post #: 19

RE: Lollipop Guild asks FCC to ban the word 'midget' on... - 7/8/2009 10:30:51 PM

NihilusZero

Posts: 4036
Joined: 9/10/2008
From: Nashville, TN
Status: offline

quote:

"The word 'midget' objectifies you," said Clinton Brown, 27, of Hicksville, who co-chaired this year's conference at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott in Downtown Brooklyn. "Growing up as a little person, because you're different, you experience the ups and downs of some cruelties and prejudices.

Unexpected. I would have thought they only experience the downs.

*Badum...chiiissssh!*

*awaits chorus of boos*

< Message edited by NihilusZero -- 7/8/2009 10:31:12 PM >

_____________________________

"I know it's all a game
I know they're all insane
I know it's all in vain
I know that I'm to blame."
~Siouxsie & the Banshees

NihilusZero.com

CM Sex God du Jour
CM Hall Monitor

(in reply to slaveboyforyou)

Profile

Post #: 20