Next October will once again be Dwarfism Awareness Month. I kind of missed it last year, but thought it was an amazing idea to help raise awareness of people living with restricted growth. In the run-up to October, Little People, UK, is charity for people with dwarfism in the UK, is leading an educational campaign …
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Performer Refers To Her Child As Midget
I’m a bit late on picking this one up and I don’t want to get into the racism row regarding Kelis at the airport. I was, however, mystified (and somewhat alarmed as to) why the performer would use the the offensive word ‘midget’ (the equivalent of the ‘N’ word to people with restricted growth), …
They’re Filming Midgets
Watching IN BRUGES on Channel 4, we’re 18 minutes in and Colin Farrell’s character has said the word ‘midget’ multiple times now. The dialogue itself it quite funny and shows well how not-so-bright people actually talk about people with restricted growth. My blood boiled for an instance, but the delivery by Farrell was actually quite …