WOKE, Strikes Again

[SilverTabby]

@OldGreyFox

I think I’m getting a crush on the brown girl on the end…Nice legs!

But not a patch on yours!

[Maree]

@JBR

I wasn’t interested enough to read through the whole linked article, but I did notice that this initial complaint didn’t appear to come from a midget (or a little person if those words are preferred), but from an ‘academic’ at Liverpool Polytechnic who’s probably trying to make a name for herself.

She is a dwarf herself, though, JBR.

[MrFraggle67]

They have sweets in Denmark called Dog Farts
They even have a dog fart rollercoaster.
Denmark you are mad, therefore I salute you.

[JBR]

@MrFraggle67

They have sweets in Denmark called Dog Farts

The Danes have a weird sense of humour, but I like them!

[JBR]

@Maree

She is a dwarf herself, though, JBR.

Well, I suppose they stick together.

So they don’t like the word ‘midget’ but ‘dwarf’ is acceptable?

[Maree]

@JBR

@Maree

She is a dwarf herself, though, JBR.

Well, I suppose they stick together.

So they don’t like the word ‘midget’ but ‘dwarf’ is acceptable?

Oi! What they do in their own time is their business, if they want to stick together……

But yeah, I think dwarf is OK. It is according to this:

“The dwarfism community has voiced that they prefer to be referred to as dwarfs, little people, people of short stature or having dwarfism, or simply, and most preferably, by their given name.”

https://www.lpaonline.org/the-m-word

But makes me chuckle is the definition of a dwarf. It’s any adult under 4ft 10ins.

So, two inches shorter and I’d be a dwarf, and I’ll chin yer if you call me a midget!

[Mags]

My late Aunt was 4’9" but she was never known as a dwarf

[JBR]

@Maree

So, two inches shorter and I’d be a dwarf, and I’ll chin yer if you call me a midget!

And that’s wearing high heels?

[Maree]

@Mags

My late Aunt was 4’9" but she was never known as a dwarf

I know! The population is getting taller but a lot of my great aunties were under 5ft and you wouldn’t have wanted to call them dwarves! But that really is the definition

[Percy_Vere]

As someone posted above that perhaps MG Midget should be looked into too, I offer the Frog-eyed Sprite to add to the woke list

[Maree]

@JBR

@Maree

So, two inches shorter and I’d be a dwarf, and I’ll chin yer if you call me a midget!

And that’s wearing high heels?

You wear high heels?

OK, I’ll stand on a box and chin ‘yer!

[Maree]

As it seems I’m only two inches off being a dwarf I think I’m entitled to say I’d rather be called a midget than Little People!

Little People is a bit twee and condescending isn’t it?

And besides, we all know the LittlePeople are Leprachauns.

This was my favourite film when I was a kid.

[JBR]

@Maree

You wear high heels?

OK, I’ll stand on a box and chin ‘yer!

No need. Actually, I’m only 4’ 8" and that’s on a good day.

[Maree]

Ha! Munchkin!

[JBR]

@Maree

Ha! Munchkin!

Ha! R2D2!

[ruthio]

So if the word ‘dwarf’ and the diagnosis ‘dwarfism’ is ok and acceptable, then why all the fuss in recent years about the panto Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs being changed to Snow-White and the Seven Little People?

[OldGreyFox]

It might be better if us White, privileged, normal sized, heterosexual, christians, just shut the chuff up ruthio…We can’t do right for doing wrong, and if we do something right, something in our history will offend someone anyway…

[JBR]

@OldGreyFox

It might be better if us White, privileged, normal sized, heterosexual, christians, just shut the chuff up ruthio…We can’t do right for doing wrong, and if we do something right, something in our history will offend someone anyway…

Even better, we should all wear sackcloth and ashes and go about apologising to everyone we meet for our good fortune in being white.

[Donkeyman]

@JBR, White AND British JB !!
Donkeyman!

[Boot]

@JBR

I wasn’t interested enough to read through the whole linked article, but I did notice that this initial complaint didn’t appear to come from a midget (or a little person if those words are preferred), but from an ‘academic’ at Liverpool Polytechnic who’s probably trying to make a name for herself.

Although the Yahoo article didn’t mention it, the person who raised this matter is an “academic” who also has first hand experience of being called a “midget”

Although I had to laugh at the Daily Mail headline
“This is not just Wokery - it’s M&S Wokery!”
at least their article gave a fuller explanation of why Dr Pritchard contacted supermarkets about “midget gems” during “Dwarfism Awareness Month” last October.

Dr Pritchard has achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism.

Dr Pritchard acknowledged that some people may think the change is part of ‘cancel culture’ but argued ‘when people scream the name at you in the street, it is only right that it is removed’.

M&S have not been forced to make the change and it wasn’t their own brand name to start with - to be honest, I think the new name “mini gems” sounds more attractive.