[QUOTE]Calls to shut down a theme park Halloween attraction have been made in a petition whose organisers say it stigmatises mental illness.
The Asylum has been part of Thorpe Park's annual Fright Nights for more than eight years.
Campaigners claim having actors chasing people around an asylum stigmatises mental ill health.
Thorpe Park said the attraction was not offensive or a realistic portrayal of a mental health institution.
A petition organised by Katie Sutton, a mental health nursing student at the University of Salford, has attracted more than 200 signatures. [/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-24612748[/url]
Good, people should really stop being pussies about this, especially when it's just meant to be a bit of fun.
Been to The Asylum twice. Frightnight is a damn good night there.
Halloween stigmatizes monsters.
Christmas stigamtizes fat people with white beards.
I don't get what the recent waves of criticising things that have to do with mental patients, though. I can't recall seeing or hearing about it a year or two ago, let alone further back in time?
The last time I went to a Mental Health Unit it was nothing like asylums portrayed in media.
Some of those institutions are pretty scary. My friend was sent to one where there are bars and guards everywhere, and you aren't allowed to go outside.
The "recreation room" is the size of a closet and has a beach painted on the walls. Creepy shit.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.