[IrelandVIPNews] Wording on notices
- From: "Kealy, Nicky" <Nicky.Kealy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <irelandvipnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:10:53 +0100
Hi folks, I was talking with a friend earlier who quickly read out a
notice to me about a Mrs Quinn collection. I want to see what other
people think about this and I know that there are people from NCBI head
office on this list so I would urge you to think about this and just
think of where I am coming from with it. I have also contacted the
number on the notice and I was told that I have to put my complaint in
writing.
My complaint is this, on the leaflet which is being distributed with the
Mrs Quinn bags for people to donate clothes the word handicapping is
used. I can't quote the full context in which it is being used but I
strongly object to the use of this word and am seeking for it to be
removed from the leaflets. I feel that in this day and age a dreadful
word like that shouldn't be used and we are trying to educate people as
to use words like vision impaired or even blind but I do not like the
word handicapped or anything like it. St. Joseph's in Grace park road
in Drumcondra had the words visually handicapped written over their
gates at one time but they were removed and rightly so. I would love to
hear others views on this and I do not intend to leave it at this.
Cheers, Nicky.
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