Comments on: You can never guess what will offend someone

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:52:00 +0000

people who are offended by the doggie in the window song are in need of some serious therapy…and are completely missing the point of the song anyway

By: BRHS - West 1967

BRHS - West 1967 — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:12:00 +0000

The doggie in the window song is absolutely offensive since pets should NEVER be purchased from pet stores – go to a shelter or a breeder. Most people though don’t think pinatas lead to animal abuse.

Gail

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:27:00 +0000

A colleague tells the story of when a parent complained because she sang ‘how much is that doggie in the window’ at storytime. Apparently, that is a blantant promotion of puppy mills. Who knew?

By: Karen K

Karen K — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:25:00 +0000

I never meant to imply that the patron was a "boob"!!
I was simply surprised and my post was a reminder to all of us who do any kind of public service or programming.
I am not saying that we should worry all the time about being offensive. If we did, we would be paralyzed and we'd never get an opportunity to do really cool and innovative things.
But we do have to keep in mind that everyone can be offended by SOMETHING. And its not the same thing for every person!
We just have to be sensitive to those differences!

By: YNL

YNL — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:31:00 +0000

Go Fug Yourself yesterday had this awesome laundry list of pinata characteristics. They were describing Chinese starlet Bai Ling, but it was both accurate and funny.

http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2008/04/fug-madness-2-6.html

Sorry you had such a boob of a patron. Any child who can’t distinguish between a crepe paper elephant and a real one probably already hits everything with a stick.

By: Janie L. Hermann

Janie L. Hermann — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:14:00 +0000

Every single birthday party that my 4 year old attends these days has a pinata — I really can’t think of a birthday party without one recently. We never did pinatas when I was growing up in Canada, but this year I caved and got him one for his party because he insisted (we beat up on Mickey Mouse).

I just thought that pinatas were an accepted part of celebrations in this region of the U.S. and I too would never have imagined that this could offend someone. I respect this persons right to be offended, but I just never would have imagined it either.