Posted on 02/23/2009 7:19:32 AM PST by BGHater
A disabled CBeebies presenter has been the victim of a disturbing campaign after parents complained that she was scaring toddlers.
They claimed that host Cerrie Burnell - who was born with one arm - is not suitable to appear on the digital children's channel.
Miss Burnell and co-presenter Alex Winters took over the popular Do and Discover slot and The Bedtime Hour programme last month.
But the decision to hire her has prompted a flurry of complaints to the BBC and on parenting message boards, with some of the posts on the CBeebies website becoming so vicious that they had to be removed.
Incredibly, one father said he wanted to ban his daughter from watching the channel because he feared it would give her nightmares.
Others claimed that they were forced to discuss difficult issues with their young children before they were ready.
One blogger wrote: 'Is it just me, or does anyone else think the new woman presenter on CBeebies may scare the kids because of her disability?
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Commercials are the same way.
Unless someone is breaking into your house. Then he is white.
I wouldn’t mind this lady teaching me something. Def not your typical British person.
I have no understanding of why McDonald’s tries to go ghetto with their commercials. Makes no sense.
I don’t go to McDonald’s every once in awhile because I think it is cool...I go because I get a hankering for chicken nuggets or something.
Sometimes little kids just have irrational fears.
Oh for crying out loud! This TV actress may have been born without an arm, but some of these parents seem to have been born without brains. Is is THAT hard to find the “OFF” button on the TV?
It is the fastest rising demographic in the country: urban ethnic youth. I have a friend in marketing. Several years ago, she scored a big contract with Seagram’s to name a line of flavored malt liquors aimed at ethnic urban youth. Another contract involved ethnic urban youth campaigns for Yum! Foods and doing the event planning for some awards seminar for young ethnic women in business.
This demographic spends their cash. You likely save yours. You may both patronize McDonald’s, and for the same reason, but they likely patronize it more often.
During a slack time of no work, I looked at the survey sites on the web, signed up for some and discovered that older, rural, white people were mostly disqualified from the surveys for not being in a preferred demographic.
At least they didn't hire the "one-armed violinist" from Hollywood Knights.
I should sign up for some survey sites and claim to be a young black man. :)
So she works her butt off overcoming large numbers of psychological and physical obstacles to work on TV and the PARENTS are scared not the kids. You know how I know the kids are not scared? My wife has a similar condition and works with kids. When one of her new kids discovers her arm, they either don’t care or they are curious about it. Not once has one been scared. The parents feel uncomfortable so they are putting up a stink. Shame on them.
That could be.
Exactly.
My sister was in a wedding of a friend who was born without a hand. She was unbelievably patient when kids asked questions about it. Even pointing out the tiny bumps that could have been her fingers.
These parents are whacked.
I know a guy that has a similar right ‘hand’. He plays guitar with a pick attached to a wristband. incredible...
WOW!!!
That’s amazing! What a guy!
Well, she’s certainly a cutie.
Hispanic, black man, born 1989.
good grief ping
"I was born a poor black child..."
I need to see that movie...been on my list since I like Steve Martin, but just have never gotten around to it yet.
I used to know a man who had an arm like hers. He was about the right age for it to have been a Thalidomide deformity. Best damn welder I ever saw.
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