Posted on 07/06/2009 4:28:50 PM PDT by llevrok
New York - Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word "midget" on broadcast TV.
The group Little People of America said Sunday the word is just as offensive as racial slurs.
The request was prompted by an April episode of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" that the group said was demeaning.
In the episode, 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.
Calls to the FCC and "Celebrity Apprentice" host Donald Trump were not immediately answered Sunday. NBC Universal representatives didn't immediately respond to e-mail messages, and the telephone rang unanswered at their Los Angeles office
midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,
midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,midget,
midget,midget,
I used to live next to a manufacturing outfit that made midgets.
Had a small distribution network, used short haul truckers.
“fun size”
Midgets lack a proper amount of human growth hormone (HGH) (IIRC), because HGH is easily produced and administered, there is no reason for anyone (in the advanced world) to have to be a midget if they don’t want to be.
Dwarfism is caused (IIRC) by a defect in a bone elongation gene. This is not as easily produced and administered as a dwarf is born as a dwarf; while a midget just fails to develop proper human growth without the application of HGH (by nature or medical administration).
In fact, if I was either a dwarf or a midget I would HAVE to wear a “FUN SIZE” T-shirt nearly EVERYWHERE; and look for women who had heard of Toulouse le Trek. ;)
I would LOVE to ban Randy Neuman but dear God Disney just keeps using him over and over and over with the same damn tune over and over and over until I want to bash my short people brains in!
MIDGET!
MIDGET MIDGET MIDGET!
Are they going to hold a fake funeral with a little casket?? I just want to know are they supported by the Lollipop Guild????
Who was that comic who was corrected for using the word “midget” when the correct word was “dwarf?”
Oh ... excuse me! Midgets are little people with proportionally correct physical features. A dwarf has flippers where his arms should be!
These folks - http://www.ardcmidgets.com/ - are going to be very upset.
I am short only 5’6” and I have been called a midget. So what, if you can not deal with something as insignificant as an insult then grow the hell up.
” Yeah, and I want them to ban the word Whitey, but they probably won’t! “
Years ago, my wife found a stray kitten in the woods behind our house.
He was all white and obviously very sick.
She rushed him to our vet and part of the exam was a blood draw which had to be sent out to an outside lab.
A name was needed on the blood work and off the top of her head, she said since he’s one color-put down Whitey.
Well, the next day the lab called the vet and said the name “ Whitey “ was racist
and was offensive to the techs doing the tests.
So, we had to add an N and he became Whitney.
But, only on paper , we always called him Whitey.
We can always use a ‘little’ humor...
One joke I remember: the little person said he was feeling great about something. As he left their apartment he said,
“Wow...I feel five feet tall”
Actually, a midget is a person of normal arm/leg ratio: like a human but smaller. Often due to pituitary problems. I've never seen a case (they usually are treated with growth hormone injections nowadays).
Dwarves are usually with shortened limbs. The most common is the achondroplastic dwarf, who has typical features that make them look alike. But there are several other types of dwarfism too.
There are a lot of medical problems that they face: one of my patients had a baby with achondroplasia who needed neurosurgery early in life. And the Little People of America website has lots of help for parents.
In one, Felix the photographer says, “Everyone smile and say midget!” to a midget family getting a portrait.
ANYONE KNOW WHAT EPISODE THIS ACTUALLY IS?
Okay, I did the research. The key to figuring it out is that it is one of only three episodes where “Edna” (Felix’s daughter) apears. And one of those is the last episode (Felix reunites with his wife Gloria). The episode you want is called “The Oddfather”
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Now the ALIEN lobby will be on your case!
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