Discrimination

Recently, it came to my attention that a cBeebies, childrens channel, presenter was getting a backlash from the parents of the children watching the channel because she scared their children. They say this is because she only has half of her right arm. Ridiculous!

Here is an extract from the first online article made regarding the issue:

"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.

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."

My views are that those who are complaining are small minded and scrared by anything different. The age of 1 - 5 is a perfect age to discuss issues surrounding disabilities, just as you would describe people being black or white. Its a part of every day life. Children have been brought up with the lack of disabled presenters on television and grow up without any knowledge that there are diaabled people in this world and when they see them..... shock! horror!, they stand and stare thinking of them as something terrible and freaky.

My son was born with the same disability was Cerrie and this sort of response to her being on TV is terrible and makes me upset at people can say these things about somone with a disability. I sincerely hope that with Cerrie staying on this children's channel, it is a sign of better times to come and my son won't grow up in a world full of small minded people.

He is the most cheerful toddler I've met and hardly ever cries, he radiates happiness most of the day. To know that most definately he will be bullied at school, like Cerrie was makes me upset. I hope this is the start of something new and along with channels showing disability on them, I hope other channels too do not discriminate against showing disabled people so that everyday people will not discriminate themselves.

Thats that for now.

As for recent news regarding myself, not much has been happening really. I went out last friday had a quiet few drinks with my good friend James and had Kallam the next day and went to my sisters to chill and play. Then I went out on Saturday night and regretted it the next day big style. Spent most of Sunday hungover, so I didn't get much done. I do enjoy the occaisional drink, but maybe I'll stick to quiet drinks from now on lol

Be sure to check out my movie blog at http://moviepi.blogspot.com , which includes reviews, news and upcoming films. Cheers.

Inner Exploration

The times come now where I feel the need to improve myself. Not sure of the plan yet, but a starts got to be made. Improve myself not as in plastic surgery or bloating up my man boobs, but basically skills and appearance.

I think I'll start with playing the guitar. I'm moderately good. I can pull off a few tunes and alls well, but when it comes to the songs i wanna really play... well that's just something I haven't quite mastered.

You'll probably notice two guitars float across above in my slide show. They are now gathering dust and not been used for a while. Shame really, they are two really good guitars. Its either learn to play or give to a good owner. I can do it if i get motivated enough.

After I've improved enough, I'll set about improving bigger things, say driving. Something I've been learning for a while, but never got around to passing any test. Every time I've come close to passing, something bad has happened in my life hindering me from driving. I wont get too much into it, but i will drive. oh yes. i will drive.... eventually... lol

Nothings happened recently event wise. Watched The IT Crowd all night. Its a funny TV show that sadly has been axed. Hilarious it was. Had me giggling all night. Need to watch the latest episode of Lost. Can't wait as its getting quite intense now. I'm all up to date with Smallville, which is getting all intense itself at the moment.

Tomorrow I'll be picking the kids up and probably taking them to my dads and places...

I found this quiz online. I love personality quizzes. This one tells me what my music taste says about me. Very truthful the results are. Try it out yourself. ;¬)

update ya later!

What Your Taste in Music Says About You

Your musical tastes are intense and rebellious. You are intelligent... but in a very unconventional way. You are curious about the world. You love doing something new. In fact, you enjoy taking risks and doing things most people would shy away from. You are very physical. It's likely that you're athletic, but not into team sports. You have the soul of an artist. Beauty and harmony are important to you.

What Does Your Taste in Music Say About You?