Rosie Jones appeared on The One Show to discuss her new documentary, but neither she nor the show revealed the title.
The celebrity, who has been on The Last Leg, 8 Out of 10 Cats, and her own stand-up show, is planning to make a documentary on the internet harassment she has suffered as a handicapped person.
However, the ableist term in the title has created significant controversy: Am I A R****d?
Rosie, who has cerebral palsy, has indicated that the title is purposefully provocative in order to initiate a dialogue about ableism and how others see handicapped people.
She did confess, though, that it is difficult to confront ‘criticism from within your own group,’ since handicapped individuals criticised the title.
Rosie appeared on The One Show on Tuesday, when hosts Jermaine Jenas and Lauren Laverne introduced her and the documentary but did not use the title.
Lauren explained: ‘The documentary has got a controversial title and it features a word that many people find offensive, so we’re not going to use it on the show tonight.’
She then gave Rosie the opportunity to explain why she believed the term needed to be included.
Rosie herself said she wouldn’t use the title on the show, but that it ‘includes a shocking ableist slur and unfortunately that slur has been used against me pretty much every week for my entire life,’ and that it has ‘upset a lot of people from within the disabled community’.
Defending it, she argued: ‘In my opinion the ableist slurs… are not taken as seriously as other forms of abuse,’ explaining she ‘still hears the R-word used in pubs and on streets’.
‘So by using that word in the title I really wanted to start the conversation around ableism and abuse.’
The star recently spoke where she opened up on how she was treated by other people because of having cerebral palsy, explaining: ‘I will open up Twitter and see people abuse me everyday, I will walk down the street and have people shout ableist slurs at me, I will order an Uber and the driver will see me and assume I’m drunk and drive away, and these were always daily minute forms of ableism that ended up swallowing how I felt about myself.
‘So it came to a point that I thought I don’t want to be quiet and I don’t want to swallow all of this hate and abuse because I swallow enough disability hate that then becomes self-hate and that will affect my own mental health.’
The One Show airs weekdays from 7pm on BBC One
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