Slog - Comments on Little People: Threatened and Pissed-Off

Comment by DavidG

DavidG — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:51:33 -0800

Yeah, the group of homeless Native Americans on Capitol Hill is really depressing. At least twice a week I walk by on Bellevue/Olive/Broadway/Pine and one of the group is either sitting on the sidewalk snorting coke or passed out/getting revived by emergency medical professionals. Yet they seem to hang together - I almost always see them in groups of two or more.

Comment by sepiolida

sepiolida — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:08:38 -0800

@1. Wait, they're homeless but they can afford coke?

Comment by Rhiannon

Rhiannon — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:15:59 -0800

@2: It's all about priorities. Or meth.

Comment by Dougsf

Dougsf — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:20:48 -0800

#2 - This is America! "Afford" has nothing to do with it.

Man, the idea of people harassing little people the way that guy described (photo ops?!) kinda pisses me off. If I ever see that behavior being perpetrated by anyone less the 5'9" tall, I'm going to have a fucking field day on that person.

Comment by michael strangeways

michael strangeways — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:33:09 -0800

Erin has my sympathies. I think I saw her on the #8 bus a few weeks ago and I noticed this nerdy, late 20's guy just obviously and unabashedly STARING at her. I don't know if he was from the sticks and had never seen a little person up close, or if had a fetish for LP's or if he was just a clueless yutz but I had to resist the urge to poke him in the shoulder and mutter to him, "Dude, be cool; it's not nice to stare at someone."

But, I realized I do the same thing when a hot, 30/40something daddy wearing a suit and tie gets on the bus and stands in my line of vision...

Comment by PC

PC — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:41:45 -0800

Perhaps bus drivers should be allowed to order folks off the bus at their discretion.

Dealing with riffraff keeps many people off the bus.

Will drivers use this as tool to discriminate and oppress? They could but it's pretty weird to be advocating everyone to take the bus when we can't provide basic order.

Comment by umvue

umvue — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:02:39 -0800

Geesh! Everyone knows it's only cool to be an ignorant ranting jack-off on the internets. But, I suppose, until there's public access wi-fi we'll just have to put up with it.

Comment by Grant Cogswell

Grant Cogswell — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:41:17 -0800

"That's fine, but it'd be great if you could make the bus come on time."

Damn, that's suave.

Comment by robo

robo — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:59:32 -0800

Sorry to hear about the crappy way people treat Little People. If it's any consolation, in regard to this quote: "I could only think that people like me have the same legal recourse as those being discriminated against for their ethnicity or sexual orientation"-- in Texas at least you actually DO have the same legal recourse as people discriminated for their sexual orienation: none. So come on down to Austin!

Comment by Erin

Erin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:20:39 -0800

I was not on the #8 bus. And if I do take the #8, I'd rather stick a pen in my eye than wait at that bus stop; a frequent stopping place of emergency vehicles who come to pick up the passed out junkies.