In case you didn't know how I feel about midget wrestling...
Earlier this evening, I was driving into town listening to a country music station, when an advertisement caught my ear. Apparently the motorcycle rally "Thunder in the Rockies" hosts an event "Extreme Midget Wrestling." Here is the letter I sent to the radio station: As an individual with dwarfism, I was shocked and disappointed to hear an advertisement for "Extreme Midget Wrestling"on your station. The term “midget” is outdated and highly offensive to most of us with short stature, because it originated with the “freakshow” era when little people did not have rights as equal members of society. Quoting from the website “Understanding Dwarfism” (http://www.udprogram.com/basic-facts-3-2), “ in recent decades, midget has become recognized as a derogatory, hurtful term, a term of derision used to ridicule short-statured individuals...it is a word that identifies a person of s hort stature as a “lowbar” spectacle, cheap gag, and sideshow act.” Th