All_Around_Brown
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Because it is a personal question that has nothing to do with anything, and shows a lack of sensitivity. Most people have some sort of obvious physical shortcoming, only 3-year-olds and adults of similar mentality wonder aloud about them. This thread is moronic.
I find Zolak the best player-commentator out there, BTW, just above DeOssie.
What?
Settle down. There is nothing insensitve about a simple question. I have a special needs child, but I have no issues with people asking if my boy is down syndrome. Why would I? I'm not embarrased by it.
Some people need to relax with this PC thing.
so when the physical features of a guy on TV changes I am being insensitive wondering what happened? I did not make fun of him, I just implied it looks like a lazy eye, which a different poster corrected me and made his Internet prognosis. that is fine,
but to call someone a 3 year old or say they have the mentality of one just shows it is you sir who have an issue with this, if like the kids in school you just answered it instead of accusing people of piling on, this thread would have run it's course...... but no you have to come out with gun ablaze, the sheriff in this lil' town protecting Zo.
you are the insensitive human here not me
I guess we should not make fun of Michael Jackson either based on his appearance, I mean look at the changes in him, hope you never had or that would be wrong
Oh give me a freakin' break. It's not a matter of being politically correct, it's simply crass and juvenile to start a thread about somebody's facial defect. Do strangers walk up to you off the street to ask about your kid? This is the same thing.
No it is not. Zolak is in the public eye ...
Comparing Zolak's congenital eye defect to Michael Jackson's billion rhinoplasties is like comparing an aardvark to a water buffalo. So the man has a strabismus (lazy eye) like a million other Americans! He's ALWAYS had it; nothing has changed, it's nothing he has control over. Why someone feels compelled to start a thread about it makes no sense. If you're worried about it, send the man an e-mail.
I hope that wasn't intentional.
Why are you so fat?What?
Settle down. There is nothing insensitve about a simple question. I have a special needs child, but I have no issues with people asking if my boy is down syndrome. Why would I? I'm not embarrased by it.
Some people need to relax with this PC thing.
Uhhhhhh...
Why couldn't the answer have just been, "he has lazy eye"?
Again, you are way over the top on this one. I would be the value of my house that you are taking this far more seriously than Zolak himself would. Frankly, I doubt he would even care.
Why are you so fat?
It's the same kind of question. People know when to keep their mouths shut. And BTW, whether or not Zolak reads it is beside the point.
Do strangers walk up to you off the street to ask about your kid? This is the same thing.
No it isn't. Not even close.
There was nothing derogatory in the original question. Nothing at all. I don't see why you guys are reading such malicious intentions into that. In your example question it is an accusation.
and with regard to this:
Sure they do. But what is a more apt analogy is if my kid is playing with two other kids, one of which I know and the other I don't. After we leave the new mom/dad asks the one that knows us, "does that boy have Down Syndrome?". I'm sure that happens too. And there is nothing wrong with it.
Maybe this will help: When someone asks a question like, "What's up with Zolak's eye?" it's the same as saying, "I notice something wrong with that person's appearance. Can you explain why he does not look normal?" And this doesn't strike you as a tad insensitive or juvenile?
Here is what I think: I'll also bet the value of your house that Zolak has been sensitive about this since he was a boy when others teased him about it. He might brush it off now, especially since he is an adult and there's nothing he can do about it. But I doubt he appreciates having it called to his attention.