Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Socially Accepted?

A college competitive dance team chose to dress in straight jackets, frizz their hair and blacken their eyes for their dance costumes.  These sort of things are accepted as entertainment.  But they actually promote the stigmas that plague the mentally ill. What if someone you love was medicated and put in a straight jacket, you wouldn't find anything entertaining or funny about it.
Continuing to allow such practices promote the idea that mentally ill individuals are violent and "crazy".  Don't accept this as entertainment!  Look at it for what it is ... a gross portrayal of the mentally ill.

1 comment:

SMPsBeads said...

This is truly NOT funny entertainment. Unfortunately, it IS funny or entertaining to some. I will spend more time researching this event in order to understand why
this group chose this subject in the first place
to "dance around", and who allowed it to go on.