Hey, so was I.





----- Original Message -----
From: "Chester Worwa" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 6:27 AM
Subject: Re: THE OBLONGS


> Hey, I was a poster child and I enjoyed it.
>
> --- Rayna Lamb <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > YUUUUUCKKKK!!!  This show sounds horrendous, I do
> > hope it is one show
> > that Australia won't import from the US.  I would be
> > curious as to how
> > long this show would last on the box.
> >
> > And as far as the days of sideshows and freakshow
> > and the disabled
> > being exploited by them returning, I don't know that
> > they ever left.
> > I think society just covered it up by renaming them,
> > Telethons and
> > Appealathons.  They get to stare at us, and at the
> > same time they have
> > the warm fuzzy feeling that they are helping `the
> > less fortunate'.
> > Just a way of them justifying their pruient
> > attitudes.  It is a
> > socially acceptable form of voyeurism.  Charity
> > organisations are just
> > big freakshows, except now, instead of the least
> > physically `normal'
> > of us being exibited, they use cute young kids as
> > `poster children'.
> > And for the amount of times I'm openly stared at and
> > pointed at on the
> > street every day, I'd say we are all still in a
> > gigantic freakshow,
> > only the public aren't paying.  I got stopped by
> > some tourists one day
> > who wanted me to take a photo of them next to my
> > scooter!!!  I told
> > them to get lost of course.
> >
> > Rayna
>