One man's humour...

...is another man's (or woman's) offence... My friend wrote as his Facebook status the other day: "saw a rather offensive car window sticker on the drive home tonight". As my mate's got a dry sense of humour, I expected it to be something either insulting to his beloved footy team, or something salacious. Not a bit. The sticker read: "Men are like parking spaces. The good ones are all taken, the only ones left are handicapped or too small". I'd seen this "joke" before, and it upset me then, and nothing's changed since. It's simply not acceptable to parade around this disablist (not to mention sexist) humour. You try driving around with a racist sticker on your car, and see how far you get. We are sick to the back teeth of being the butt of people's jokes, and this is by no means an isolated incident (see my previous post). Meanwhile, the only disabled character in EastEnders has been axed. I know there are other characters who are disabled in soaps, but surely the more we are seen, the more "normal" we become, and therefore less likely to be seen as figures of fun? Discuss.

So, hate crime legislation and the DDA mean nothing, then.

I hope this lady won't mind me linking to her blog, I just couldn't NOT post this. Talk about offensive: http://k3tten.blogspot.com/2010/04/punching-me-in-face-would-have-been.html Shame on this "comedian". He didn't even have the bottle to apologise.