To be pissed off at Michael McIntyre

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So I just saw the show where they made people who needed glasses take them off and see what they could see (not much), for laughs and prizes.
I have very low eyesight and that really made me really cross that they make fun of peoples disabilities like that. They wouldn't ask someone in a wheelchair to just 'crawl along the floor, go on, just for our amusement '? Aibu to be so sensitive or was it banter? Xx

I'm a minus 8. I think you are being totally ridiculous. Get laser eye surgery if it bothers you that much. It is a reversible issue. Real disability is not.

I don't think it was offensive OP but this thread has been a real eye opener (pun intended) that people think if your wearing glasses your eyesight has been corrected. I guess so many people wear glasses these days so its really normal. I would have been a bit embarrassed to be involved in such a gag as when I wear my glasses my eyesight is still only 20/100.

I am in double figures for short sightedness
I am forever fortunate that glasses and contact lenses allow me to live my life almost completely unhindered by my sight and have thought many times that if I’d been born 100 years ago I would have faced enormous difficulties

I am not disabled. At all
I didn’t see it but it wouldn’t bother me

To suggest it is the same as a joke about being unable to walk and requiring a wheelchair is very rude OP

@user1473878824 Honestly, why are we playing disabled Top Trumps here? My child is blind and I can't imagine that it would be worse for her being in a wheelchair - but
I'm really happy for you to enlighten us.

And Mumsnet hasn't come across the concept of ambulant wheelchair users - lots of people can walk a bit but still use a wheelchair to eg. cover longer distances, to reduce fatigue etc.

I thought the “game” was a bit off when it started, seemed like it was making fun of people’s physical impairment and I was surprised MM would do that. Once it became apparent it was a set up for the proposal, I understood why he had done it and that it wasn’t making fun of people, so I thought it was fine. Proposal made me cry though - I’m a sucker for romance!

I have terrible eyesight -4.75 and never is the inconvenience of sticking a pair of glasses on my face when i wake up in the morning anywhere near comparable to my sister having to be hoisted into her wheelchair every morning. Ffs!
If you are offended turn it over!

Desperate to be a victim, much?

Be careful what you wish for.

independentfriend quite!

My daughter is 11 and wears glasses; she is also registered blind - does she qualify for your (extremely ignorant and incredibly disablist) count of people-who-wear-glasses-are-not-disabled?

The OP was not talking about people that are registered blind in the OP. She said taking people's glasses off and seeing what they could see etc. Most people I know wear glasses and are not registered blind. They just have weakened vision.
If it was taking the piss of registered blind people in general, that would clearly be different.

I also have a disability, so please keep calling me a disablist to yourself!

@Ibizafun but MM isn't deaf. What if he got someone who WASN'T deaf to, say, take out his hearing aids or MM turn his back to them and signal something to the audience for laughs at his expense? Would you still find that funny? Genuinely interested to know and no offense meant.

I was just thinking I thought MM looked pretty hot in his glasses.

EveryoneLoves09871 was that meant to be directed at me?

@Redyoyo I'm sorry for your sister's disability but I'd like to respectfully point out that glasses do not necessarily correct blindness or sight impairments. My child is blind and I really don't want to play disability Top Trumps but it's a sad state of affairs when the disabled are turning on the disabled.

He's a twat

I haven't seen the show you're talking about (no joke intended) but have very poor vision and it definitely isn't funny.

Totally missing the point of the tread here but several times I’ve read ‘people in wheelchairs can’t walk’ erm yes they can!! And this is why my daughter gets stared at when she leaves her wheelchair to walk to a table in a restaurant - as you were...

*thread. And it should also say yes some of them can

@Sayhellotothethings I've also never known anyone that need a glasses to say they have a disability.
With glasses or contacts you can live a normal life.

Not playing disability Top Trumps with you any more but I'd like to respectfully point out that my child who needs glasses has a disability. Because she is blind. And, no, with glasses or contacts, you can't actually live a normal life, necessarily.

Yeah I'm a minus 8 and 7.5 and if I didnt have my glasses on then I wouldn't even have a clue where I was....I wear contact lenses as VV vain ...but mum said I'd take glasses off to answer the phone!!!
Not arsed by this at all...just felt proud they could see so far !!!*.

Wearing glasses = disability?
Yes YABU.
It’s a shitty comedy show anyway.

And this is why my daughter gets stared at when she leaves her wheelchair to walk to a table in a restaurant - as you were...

Absolutely. People are pretty clueless about what being blind (or deaf) actually means.

I don’t like Michael MacKintyre so I didn’t watch it. It doesn’t sound funny at all.

Oh, for heaven's sake, he wasn't taking the piss out of blind people or anyone with any other disability. He was setting up a proposal by getting people who were short-sighted to take off their glasses and then making a gag of it so as not to give the game away.

I wonder if those saying that it is funny are those same people that bullied other kids at school for wearing glasses?

So OP YANBU because this would bring back memories of the bullying that I and many others suffered at school by dickheads, wankers and idiots.

If the people in the show were actually registered blind then YANBU but you do not know that they are.