Bladewire

"The ban, proposed by Spokane Valley Republican Mike Padden, would prohibit any physically hazardous activity involving a person with dwarfism in an adult venue or bar."

Do you think this is the right thing to do?

Another Republican telling adults what they can and can't do with their own bodies.

To me, if adults want to throw each other around to make money then they should be allowed to do that it's their bodies. What do you think?

Proposed ban on dwarf tossing backed at Olympia hearing

A proposed statewide ban on events such as dwarf tossing and potentially dwarf wrestling drew support at a public hearing Thursday.

At least five people with dwarfism showed up to the hearing, with several telling a legislative committee that the “tossing” events — sometimes held as promotions at bars and strip clubs — contribute to a culture of mockery and bullying.

The ban, proposed by Spokane Valley Republican Mike Padden, would prohibit any physically hazardous activity involving a person with dwarfism in an adult venue or bar.

Deana Harris, president of the Seattle chapter of Little People of America, said the events advance a perception of dwarfism as a condition that’s acceptable to mock.

“Gay tossing, Muslim tossing, black tossing, Jew tossing,” Harris said. “If any of those were the topic of today’s discussion, the outcry would be deafening.”

Dwarf-tossing events in particular, Harris and others said, also objectify people affected by dwarfism, and give people the idea that people suffering from dwarfism are objects or toys, creating a danger that audience members might later try to recreate the stunts.

The late British actor Martin Henderson was left partially paralyzed in 2012 after a drunken bar-goer picked him up, then dropped him, damaging his spine.

But one representative for an entertainment company questioned the breadth of the bill, and advocates acknowledged separately that some activities banned by the bill, including potentially wrestling, might be less objectionable.

Speaking on behalf of a multistate company that specializes in theatrical wrestling shows featuring performers with dwarfism, Paul Boudreaux said the bill would unfairly limit legitimate events.

Michelle Kraus, advocacy director for Little People of America, said she could see some differences between tossing and wrestling.

“There’s a counterpart to it in the average-height world, Kraus said. “And there’s a skill to it.”

But some at Thursday’s hearing pointed out that the bill wouldn’t ban people with dwarfism from taking part in sporting events, instead specifically targeting events at bars and strip clubs.

Bridgette Graham, a Seattle woman who participates in sporting events through the Dwarf Athletic Association of America, said after the hearing that events held at bars are fundamentally different from those held in ordinary sporting venues.

Padden said he could sympathize with concerns about the limits the bill might place on professional entertainers, but also was concerned about an activity that seemed to target one specific group based on their physical characteristics.

“I do have kind of a conservative libertarian streak in me,” Padden said. But, he added, “to me it comes down to basic common decency.”

pimpmaster9000

Midget tossing is an institution...it is culture...there should be a midget toss in every movie like in the background, somebody tosses a midget and it is funny as hell...

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Rochard

Dwarf tossing is one of my favorite hobbies.... This is me competing in 2008.

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2MuchMark

We should have a dward toss at the next adult convention. The shortest guy gets tossed. Who is the shortest in adult, in front of or behind the camera?

CaptainHowdy

Why do we always feel the urge to harm dwarfs ? ?

pimpmaster9000

Nobody harms them...they have genetically adapted to being tossed...they are fine...ask your local midget...

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Rochard

It's harder than it looks. You have to have upper body strength.

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CaptainHowdy

. . . The midget in my neighborhood indeed looks tossable.

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You should be tossed

astronaut x

This is stupid. These dwarfs get paid to get tossed. This just takes money out of their pockets. This sounds like a liberal law, but being proposed by a Republican. Go figure.

Lots of dwarfs make money being dwarfs. They don't have a problem with it at all.

BW should have posted in the thread title that its a republican proposing it. Republicans always take the fun out of everything.

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pimpmaster9000

god damn it!

*unloads dwarf from trebuchet*

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CurrentlySober

i cunt a4da dwarf to toss off...

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