Rayna,

SUPERBLY STATED!!!!!

A Fellini Circus Forever.  LMAO

S.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rayna Lamb" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: THE OBLONGS


> 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