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If you hate it so much, don't read it.

But but but some people WANT to be offended.

Being offensive is just icing on the cake...

[birbear]

But but but some people WANT to be offended.

It's not about being offended, it's about the double standard (at least for me)..

I've seen this same list every year for the past couple of years, and admittedly it's funny.


But consider this:


Would anybody on this thread dare to make a similar list about illnesses like diabetes, cancer, or losing a limb?

of course not. It would be disrespectful and in bad taste.

But how come it's okay to poke fun at the mentally ill?

I'm a supporter of NAMI -- the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (http://www.nami.org) we're just trying to create parity between mentally ill people and physically ill people. Jokes like this, while, again, hilarious (and frightfully true in some cases) undermines our ability to be taken seriously. It classifies us as something that somehow is okay to be ridiculed.

There's a lot of things in this world that are funny. Mental illness is not one of them.