Sacramento Escorts: Letters for December 24, 2009
Letters for December 24, 2009
Letter of the weekNot your freak show
Re “Cruising for urban legends” by Ted Cox (SN&R Arts&Culture, December 17):
Writer Ted Cox should apologize for his atrocious article. To troll the streets of Sacramento seeking out little people in order to gawk and exploit for this article is despicable.
To make matters worse, he refers to the little person he is targeting as a “midget.” That’s a horribly offensive term for people with dwarfism. Imagine if Cox wrote about his journeys looking for African-American prostitutes and called them by the “N” word. Wouldn’t that get you into trouble?
I happen to be a little person myself and am an active member of Little People of America (lpaonline.org), a national organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with dwarfism. Members of our organization strive to educate others about our diversity and ask for respect and understanding about our health condition. All we want is to be treated fairly.