60 HUMANITY/CLASS STRUCTURE/HEIRARCHY OF AFFLICATIONS

Profoundly deaf people take great offence to the term hearing impaired. They consider it politically incorrect. And so inadvertently have set up a hierarchy of afflictions. You can be ‘not deaf enough’ to be excluded from a select cultural and linguistic minority group. This has spilled over into all parts of society; people with lisps cannot stand the company of the lazy tongued, Tourette syndrome sufferers think the nervous tick brigade are just amateurs and Ginger folk look down on Strawberry blondes. You have to pass a freckle count to be a germane ginger.
So the most elite club in the world turns out to be the Lisping Outburst Deaf Ginger Establishment. There are not that many members. At the last annual meeting of the LODGE all 4 associates managed to upset each other by being either more ginger, deaf, lisping or erratically rude than the others. This led to a splintering into 3 other clubs the DOGLE, OGDLE and the GODLE. It was the arrival of the colossal stationary bill for the various organisations that made the founders realise how ridiculous the whole thing was, and that they were just ordinary people with problems. They promptly disbanded and focused their energies on more important things. A lesson to us all in these enlightened politically correct times.