Megan Washington has had it with the stuttering jokes. Taking to her official Facebook page, the outspoken homegrown songwriter laid the smack down on anyone who still thinks Billy Madison references are funny.
“Hi world,” Washington opened, “may I offer: stuttering jokes are NOT FUNNY: if you think they are, you are old fashioned and not very smart. (If I get one more “t-t-t-today JUNIOR” I reckon I have carte blanche to whack you in the chops. Seriously it was 20 years ago. Get it together.)”
The post did not cite any particular incident nor was it directed at anyone in particular, but when one fan incredulously asked the singer, “People actually say that to you?!” she replied with a simple, “Yep.”
Back in 2014, Washington gave an emotional talk at the TedXSydney conference in which she discussed her life-long struggle with stuttering and how music became both a therapy for her condition as well as a creative outlet for the ARIA Award winner.
“Singing for me is sweet relief, it is the only time when I feel fluent,” she told the crowd. “Somehow, through some miraculous synaptic function of the human brain, it’s impossible to stutter when you sing, and when I was younger that was a method of treatment that worked really well for me.”
Washington said that despite regularly performing on stages around the country, she lives “in mortal dread of public speaking”. Readers can check out Washington’s hilarious and heartfelt TedXSydney talk below.
