Saturday, February 28, 2009

How low is blaming a children's show host for her disability?

Stories like these are what tie a large rock around my faith in people's good reasoning and throw it into the Pacific Ocean. Cerrie Burnell, a children's show host, is being criticized for appearing on TV with having only one hand; her right arm ends right below her elbow. (Not sure if it's a defect or an injury; not like it matters to this story, either.)

BBC spokeswoman Katya Mira said the corporation has received at least 25 "official" complaints recently about Cerrie Burnell, new host of two shows on the BBC-run CBeebies television network, which is aimed at children younger than 6.

The official complaints do not count the dozens of negative comments lodged in Internet chat rooms, Mira said.

In one chat room, a father lamented that Burnell being on the show forced him to have conversations with his child about disabilities.

Yes, how horrible for that 'father' to be forced to talk to his kid about people who look different! How dare Ms. Burnell impose that responsibility and duty upon him? How dare she have her own TV show when she's missing an arm? The kids, they'll be scared! Please, won't somebody think of the children!?

Pathetic, that's what this is. Some father. I can also guess – probably very accurately – that most of those whiny little bitches don't even have kids of their own, or else they'd know that kids aren't exactly gonna be reduced to terrified wrecks by a person on TV who happens to be disabled. I'm not saying they should let a burn victim who now resembles Freddy Kreuger or whatever, but people with a missing limb – what kind of retard has anything to say against that?

Actually, I commend that woman for having the sanity and relative courage to expose herself to the wide audiences TV attracts despite her disability.


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