Crazy For You Rights Activists

So the other day my friend gives me this newspaper cut out. Apparently the Vermont Teddy Bear Company had this stuffed bear that was called "Crazy for You Bear." This little guy was great... He came with a note and he had a little straight jacket. Get it... Crazy for you... Well as the article pointed out. Apparently some group was upset with this bear because the, according to them the teddy bear company was not being sensitive to the feelings of people with mental disorder.

Let me tell you a little something about myself... When I was 20 or so I was sent to one of those nice places where life is beautiful all the time. At the time I was already taking some prescription medication. And by some I mean Prozac, Depakote, Ritalin, Clonazepam, Wellbutrin XL, Paxil, Lamictal, as well as a daily vitamin and some iron supplement for my anemia. So on the day that I was sent up to the place with the nice young men and their clean white coats, they doubled my douses of everything. Needless to say, that night I slept soundly. For the rest of the time that I was there I had to have this guy watch me all the time. Apparently that's what they do when you are on suicide what. They took everything from when I got there... They took my phone. Apparently they did not want me make any unauthorized phone calls. They took my glasses. Apparently I could break my glasses and hurt myself with the shards. All of this reminded me of "Alice's Restaurant." There is this line in the song when Arlo goes, "They took out the toilet seat so I could not get myself over the ganging ground. I said, 'Officer Obie, you did not think I was going to hang myself for littering did you?'"

Anyhow... Enough with the depressing stuff...

So now that I have established myself as some who might be offended by such a bear, let me say something to those who, on my behalf, filed suit against the Vermont Teddy Bear Company... "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE." Seriously... these people and their politically correct dogma are driving me nuts... I feel like I just stepped into Bizzaro world. If anything in the world makes me crazy, I would have to blame all of these people who do not want to offend someone... all of these people who want to sanitize the whole world so they wont insult anyone. There is always going to be someone who is insulted. Things that seem to insult people are also the things that seem to define certain people. As soon as we stop saying certain things because of fear that we might hurt someone's feelings that is the day that we stop acknowledging people as individuals...


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