Originally titled we let our 3 year old son decorate a tree on Reddit's r/CasualUK. Later recycled into A very Dinklage Christmas in r/suicidebywords.
I just want to take a moment to reflect on the ableism at the core of this the joke. The tweet isn't even by the real Peter Dinklage, it's from a "Fan Account". This is just someone who found the picture, and created a joke based on Peter Dinklage's disability (without his input or consent) by comparing his abilities to the efforts of a toddler. It's actually a pretty great example of how society continually questions people with disabilities about their competence in vaguely-related situations.
Dinklage said this about the Snow White remake and I think it's pretty worthwhile revisiting:
“Literally no offense to anything, but I was sort of taken aback, ... They were very proud to cast a Latino actress as Snow White, but you’re still telling the story of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.’ Take a step back and look at what you’re doing there. It makes no sense to me. ... You’re progressive in one way, ... but you’re still making that fucking backward story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together.” - Dinklage on WTF podcast 24th Jan 2022
As a civilisation, we're still doing "lol, person with different body can't do things like most people because the world wasn't built to include them" and calling it comedy when it's actually a hugely pervasive and damaging stereotype that keeps people with disabilities from being able to contribute meaningfully. Achondroplasia (and other medical conditions) are not a joke, and the difficulties people do face as a result of exclusion are not in any way funny to experience or be reminded of unnecessarily.
I wish so much of comedy wasn't just hurtful bullying pretending to be good-intentioned playfulness.
Read as: Taylor Swift has enough money to defend herself by threatening Musk legally.
The law is a weapon wielded by the rich, and brandishing it can convince other rulers to yield. Anyone else it helps is an unintended side effect.