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the Mail does it again- Cerrie Cbeebies :(

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littlelamb · 23/02/2009 00:10

what a load of bigotted toss How is bile like this even printed? My dd is 4 and has not even noticed. Just vile. But am amazed to learn she has a 4 month old. Am v of her flat tummy!

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FAQinglovely · 23/02/2009 00:12

!!!!

Do those children have nightmares about the children they see on "Something Special" because they're "different" - I think not!

shonaspurtle · 23/02/2009 00:15

Hang on, the messages they quote sound veeeery familiar .

There was a link from another thread to a discussion forum (can't remember which) and one poster said he thought his children might be scared (note: didn't say they were scared). He was shouted down by numerous other posters, and the others who didn't like Ceri were objecting to her presenting style, not her disability.

Sounds to me like the writer has padded this all out into an article. How pointless.

(People are pathetic though, there was a lot of ranting going on about "positive" discrimination. Bollocks.)

FAQinglovely · 23/02/2009 00:15

I hadn't even noticed until I saw a thread here on MN mentioning it.

Mind you DS1 (8) did suddenly announce a week or so back "oh YEAH! She really does only have one arm"............think he must have heard it mentioned at school and it was said in more of the "oh cool" (in true 8yr old boy style) than "oh that's weird" iykwim.

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littlelamb · 23/02/2009 00:16

Yes shona, they have lifted it entirely from the digitalspy forum. God, this journalist lark must be bloody easy money if you work for the mail

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Ledodgy · 23/02/2009 00:22

What utter bollocks ds1 (3) hasn't noticed, dd (5) did and asked about it. It gave me the perfect opportunity to introduce the everybody is different talk with different abilities etc. She listened, accepted and watches. It is absolutely fine!

FAQinglovely · 23/02/2009 00:25

Ledogy - lucky you - DS2 (5) I still don't think has noticed (or if he has hadn't said antying) I had to deal with an over active imagination of an 8yr old boy who thought it was "cool" that she really did only have one hand . (we'd had the "why has that person got no legs" discussion a year or so ago in Morrisons so it wasn't so much the "why" I had to explain to him it was the "this isn't really "cool"")

Desiderata · 23/02/2009 00:38

I'm a tad confused. Why is the Mail getting it in the neck for printing this article?

Bleatblurt · 23/02/2009 00:39

I am at that article.

My 4 year old hasn't even commented on Cerrie. I don't know if he's just not noticed or if it's something that is perfectly normal to him and not worth mentioning.

NoBiggy · 23/02/2009 00:40

My DDs haven't even noticed. And if they have, they clearly don't give a monkey's.

That article's a bit shit-stirring, isn't it.

twinsetandpearls · 23/02/2009 00:40

I was going to say the same Desi, I am no mail sympathiser but the mail is not agreeing with these compliments.

NoBiggy · 23/02/2009 00:42

But why run the story?

Why give the impression that there's an issue, where it's just a few dim twats on a messageboard?

shonaspurtle · 23/02/2009 00:44

Because there's really no story if it's all come from the Digital Spy thread (which going by the quotes it is).

The journalist has whipped up a non-story in order to have something to disagree with.

Desiderata · 23/02/2009 00:47

Why is it shit-stirring?

I would have thought that even if one person was pathetic enough to complain about a disability on a talk-board, it would be enough to print the story.

This hatred of the Daily Mail is much like a latter day witch trial. Very little intelligence is brought to the table.

Ledodgy · 23/02/2009 00:51

I agree that the article is worth printing. My utter bollocks comment was about te parents who'd complained.

shonaspurtle · 23/02/2009 00:52

Not much of a story is it though.

STOP PRESS: One person said something stupid and obnoxious on a forum. Lots of other people came on and said you're an arse.

AitchTwoOh · 23/02/2009 01:04

lol, i hadn't noticed her arm at all, and me and dd sat and watched them the other night. i was more concerned with the fact that she sings the goodnight song kinda flat.

2shoes · 23/02/2009 08:29

tbh I am suprised that anyone is suprised.
thsi is what people in the sn world put up with every day.

Starbear · 23/02/2009 08:39

We have a blind friend and DS is best friends with her son. DS has never worried or has been scared of this fact. Daily Mail only read it if someone points out a lie in it. Will never be my newspaper of choice.

LouMacca · 23/02/2009 10:00

I was actually shocked and upset by the reaction to Cerrie by my 6 year old daughter when she first saw her. My daughter is a lovely and caring child so when she started to imitate Cerrie (and not in a nice way) I was really concerned and questioned my parenting skills.

I am thankful that it has given me the opportunity to explain to her about disability and also illness (obviously has also seen pictures of Jade Goody). One of my daughters best friends at school is blind in one eye and she has never even mentioned it to me so I was surprised and hurt by her initial reaction to Cerrie.

nancy75 · 23/02/2009 10:08

there was a phone in about this on lbc radio this morning, every mum that phoned it said it was a positive to have people with dsabilities, and that their children had not noticed or were not really bothered by it.

swedishmum · 23/02/2009 10:09

The only thing to scare dd3 on cbeebies are the baddies on numberjacks.

AitchTwoOh · 23/02/2009 10:10

or baby tumble! bbbrrrrrr.

SoupDragon · 23/02/2009 10:15

I don't think the Mail should get it in the neck - they aren't in favour of the "campaign".

princessmel · 23/02/2009 10:19

How mean and nasty

It took my 6 yr old ds weeks to notice her arm. We just explained that she was born that way. He wasn't scared at all.

I think Cerrie is a very positive role model for children.

mersmam · 23/02/2009 10:21

I think Cerrie is great - as with pps my children have never even noticed her disability (although dd1 loves the clothes she wears!!)

I think the mail is perfectly right to publish this story - we need to be aware that there are such idiots in our society who would complain about something like this!

Swedishmum - you are right about the numbertaker - he gives me nightmares never mind the dcs.

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