Posted on 09/08/2015 5:53:57 PM PDT by Steelfish
Theater Renames ‘Snow White’ Because the Word ‘Dwarf’ Is Too Offensive
by KATHERINE TIMPF September 8, 2015
The production will be called “Snow White and her Seven Friends” instead. De Monfort Hall in Leicester, England, has announced that there will be no dwarves in its Snow White Christmas pantomime because the word “dwarf” is too offensive. The production will be called “Snow White and her Seven Friends” and feature child actors as the “friends,”
according to an article in the Leicester Mercury. Despite the fact that that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been around for approximately 9 million years, a spokeswoman for the theater insisted to the Mercury that the word “dwarf” is “generally not a word that people feel comfortable with” and that the play had to be changed.
But Warwick Davis, a dwarf actor who has appeared in movies including Harry Potter and Star Wars, told the Mercury that he’s suspicious of that explanation: “The profit margins for pantos are not very big and it’s obviously much cheaper to involve schoolchildren than it is to pay lots of professional short actors,” he said. Davis also said that, as a dwarf, he found the decision to eliminate dwarfs to be far more offensive than the word could ever be.
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But Snow “White” is A OK then..Good God this country is going down the drain. Was watching an episode of Leave It To Beaver where the Beav went to his friends birthday party and the father showed him his connection of guns..cant imagine that be allowed on TV today along with everything else
I’m sure the kids will notice that her 7 friends are dwarfs.
What are the limits of compassion?
The old jokes are becoming a reality. America has become a fundamentally transformed circus. We’ve even got elephants and RINOs marching in the Democrats’ wacky circus parade. Lots of clowns driving cars around with only their two rear wheels on the ground.
Snow Colorless and the Seven Gender-Neutral Unionized Mine Workers.
LOL good one!
Snow white and the seven midgets?
I’m really getting tired of this stupid game.
Those are UNDOCUMENTED mine workers!
It’s not a game.
L
PC doesn’t lend itself to catchy titles.
So, does this mean that bars will now be holding "Friend Tossing" contests?
Snow Blanc & The Seven Domestic Partners PING!
MIDGETS?!?!?
“Little People of America Call for Freeburg High to Lose ‘Midgets’ Mascot”
More likely they couldn't afford 7 midgets for their production.
You know those dwarfs owned their own business, went to work everyday, they took their work seriously and enjoyed it. They were hospitable to a stranger in need taking her into their home and giving her shelter and gainful employment all without a hint of economic or sexual impropriety.
They may have been short of stature but they were good men. We should all aspire to be dwarfs if we could be that morally tall.
But they’re comfortable with children working the mines?
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