Fosgate wrote:
As humorous as it may be, it shows poor taste regardless of who's making the joke. Can you say "double standard"? Yes, I thought so.
Sandra John wrote:
No you can't Fosgate.
Sure I can, mainly because that's what it is. You can't admonish one side and espouse another if each do the exact same thing.
Sandra John wrote:
Making light of one's own disabilities is a (well-known I'd have thought) psychological device for reducing the stress and emotional pain connected with them and deflecting negative feedback from insensitive others.
It sets a poor example and gives rise to awkward circumstances. Cracking jokes with the intent that no one take them as such? No thank you. Playing along is much more reassuring to <i>everyone</i> than a sudden, momentary silence, staring, and throat-clearing. Personally, I'd much rather not have to deal with it in the first place, especially if I didn't know the intent of the joker.
Sandra John wrote:
Ridiculing someone else's disabilities is an entirely different matter.
There will be some that interpret jesting attitudes and comments toward disabilities as a signal that they are "fair game". Responses, even ones that go overboard, are not necessarily meant to be critical.
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No, sorry! Can't grasp it. Would you care to elaborate?
After all, the first mention is in the thread in question, and he himself treated it as a joke. 
I guess that would make him the 'originator' that owes everyone an apology? 
Or maybe no-one's playing anyone at all and everybody's deadly serious. "Maybe", is
