An Update: Diabetes Jokes Are Not Funny

A few nights ago I posted this blog post You Win Some You Lose Some...But I'm Really Getting Sick Of Diabetes Jokes On T.V.

It was about a not so funny joke that was told on the season opening of Are You There Chelsea? on NBC 

The joke went something like this (which I messed up on my previous post, my apologies.  A night of sleeping on the post before I wrote it and the words changed in my head.)

The joke played on two very sensitive subjects 1.  Eating cupcakes (in this case) causes diabetes and 2. Which by the way I thought was the least tasteful of the two jokes.  Laughing at the very real and very upsetting complication of this disease, amputations with the joke... but it's OK because she has a good doctor and still has both her feet.

So very wrong and this so needs to stop!  Diabetes is not funny and it is NOT OK to make jokes about.

Here is a facebook link that I was asked to share.  The page was started by a mother of a child who has type 1 diabetes and who has had enough of thoughtless jokes.

"All we are hoping to do is create an awareness about exactly how much of an epidemic diabetes is...and stand up and say "no more".  Diabetic jokes are NOT funny.  We have power as an audience, and we will use it if we are not listened to. (taken from NBC 346 Million People Deserve An Apoloy fb page)

Here is the facebook link

  NBC 346 Million People Deserve An Apology