The title of a new Channel 4 show hosted by comedian and actor Rosie Jones has been causing some concern among campaign groups ad from people with disabiities. The new documentary is called Rosie Jones: Am I A R*****.
Rosie has shared a video of herself explaining why she has used the term. She said: “The title of the film has a very shocking word in it, the R word. And I get it, a lot of people will find this word very shocking and upsetting. But, in my opinion, society doesn’t take this word and other ableist forms of language as seriously as any other form of abuse from any other minorities.
”So, I said to Channel 4: ‘Let's do it, let's tackle the problem head on and use that word in the title and then, hopefully, people will think twice about using the word and other ableist slurs ever again’.”
