fasten your seat belt wall street journal, http://wsj.com, you're about to go on a bumpy ride! the organization who thinks they may represent ALL dwarf talent, all the "little people" of america and the world over are about to read you the riot act for using the word "midget" in this blog article.
little do they know or want to admit, some little people are comfortable with the use of the word, other average sized folks wouldn't know what you were talking about unless you did use the word AND in fact, it was VERY appropriate terminology for little people or dwarfs during that time period you refer to!
but no, they get their "shorts in a bunch" even though you use it now! they would be much further ahead if they would embrace the word, use it to empower them, i.e. as in resignification and move forward without letting the word have power over them. it's just a word. a LITTLE word at that. get over it. there are some little people that in fact use the word and have moved on.
why can't they?
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/01/12/a-midget-banker-hearings-and-populism-circa-1933/
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/01/13/live-blogging-the-financial-cirisis-inquiry-hearing/
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