to be shocked and upset to see the term "midget" used in reference to one of the alleged new BB housemates

[emkana]

The woman the media are talking about didn't actually go in tonight, but in all the papers, even the bl*dy Independent, they call her a "midget belly dancer".

My ds has dwarfism and it makes me feel very to think that he will come across terminology like this...

callmeovercautious, there is a person with dwarfism who was in the Australian BB and who was rumoured to go into the British one, but she didn't appear last night.

The woman from Thailand is somebody different.

Sorry to go back to this, but I came across this paragraph on Wikipedia and thought it was a very good summary of the issue:

Little person (as opposed to big person), and short-statured are politically correct terms to refer to a person with extreme, disproportionate shortness. Dwarf is sometimes perceived as having negative connotations, although the term is often used by those affected. The plural is dwarfs as in "Peter Dinklage and Wee Man are famous, handsome dwarfs." The plural term dwarves is used only for the imaginary creature. In the $19th century$ both dwarf and midget were ordinary medical terms referring to persons of disproportionate and proportionate shortness, respectively. Like many other older medical terms, they became primarily pejorative as they entered popular use. Midget is now considered offensive in all contexts to most little people, because of its connotation with little people being gawked at in circus/sideshows. Additionally, since proportionate short stature is usually due to pituitary dwarfism?a condition that is readily treatable?there are few people today who would qualify as midgets in developed countries.

I looked at your son, had to have a peak after DSM said he was gorgeous, and she is right, he is absolutely lovely. Loves the camera too !?

You're right, the word midget shouldn't be used on TV as though it were a proper word. Especially as the people watching BB are mostly so thick that they 'learn' from the crappy tv they are watching.

I hope your letter is printed.