NFXF’s Position on Tropic Thunder

The National Fragile X Foundation, along with numerous national organizations representing persons with intellectual disabilities (formerly referred to as mental retardation) has joined a protest, and a call for a boycott, of the movie Tropic Thunder. The NFXF has joined this protest due to the film’s insensitive and liberal use of the word “retard” as a form of humor. Though the NFXF understands that the filmmakers intentions were not meant to directly hurt individuals with fragile X syndrome and other intellectual disabilities, we feel that the result is a perpetuation of a term that causes pain and limits the opportunities for such individuals to be full, contributing members of society.

The National Fragile X Foundation works to expand the opportunities for all adults with intellectual disabilities including through its founding and ongoing facilitation of the Washington, DC-based Collaboration to Promote Self-Determination. Please join the NFXF and its collaboration partners by getting involved.

To learn more about this national effort to bring greater awareness of the contributions that our citizens with intellectual disabilities bring to our nation, and to efforts to accurately and respectfully represent those citizens in the media, please visit the following links:
  Special Olympics
  The Arc
  TASH

Morning LOL

Kevin:  Honey you really need to get up.  It’s getting late.

Beth:  Ugh.  Can’t I just work out of the bed?

Kevin:  That would mean that you were a whore.

I got in the shower.  He got me coffee