ABC presenter’s bizarre interview with disabled women
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ABC news presenter has come under fire following an interview labelled as “offensive” where he told a woman with a chronic skin condition that she looked like a “burns victim” and said she might scare children on Halloween.
Jon Faine, who presents
ABC Melbourne’s morning radio program, also asked if his guest’s skin condition prevented her from having sex.
The pressure on Carly Findlay, a writer and the Inclusion Co-ordinator of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, to luridly detail her disability riled listeners — one of whom phoned into the show and live on the air berated Faine.
Faine defended his questions and said “it wouldn’t make any sense” to not describe Ms Findlay’s disability to listeners who couldn’t see it for themselves.
However, on her website following the encounter, Ms Findlay said the title of the show could have been changed to “the time (Faine) suggested my face would be good at Halloween”.
“Today was really hard, and I expected to be treated better,” she wrote.
—Benedict Brooke, read more.
Carly Findlay, who has the rare skin condition ichthyosis, was asked number of ‘offensive’ questions in her ABC interview.
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