UK Dating Website's Fierce Prejudice Against the Mentally Ill

The Leona's personal ad advert is horrendous. The video is essentially a pretend lonely hearts advert containing a girl with Tourettes, followed by a splash screen saying,

"Don't worry fellas, she won't be on (our website.)"

Real people (about 1 in 1000) suffer from Tourettes through no fault of their own and their lives must be difficult enough as it is without this sort of prejudice. Does the dating website in question feel these people are not entitled to a love life? If they used a physically disabled person in their adverts followed by the same slogan there would be outrage and I'd be pretty pissed off if they depicted somebody with bipolar disorder and declared that they weren't good enough for a dating website.

Why not make fun of serial cheaters, stingy people or those who kill small animals rather than people whose supposedly undesirable behaviour is caused by something unwanted and unavoidable. If they had to pick a psychological disorder (and forgive the "Arrested Development" reference) why not have gone for the fictional Never Nude affliction? Whilst phobia of nudity exists, there (probably) aren't actually real people in the world who have a pathological need to wear cutoffs all the time.

I'm not the only one outraged by this. Some commentators on the youtube video have pointed out:
"I think she is hot and I would have no problem with her"
"You shouldn't make fun out of people with mental problems you sick bitch"
"Tourettes is an awful affliction. it is not funny for the sufferers or their families. there are better ways to advertise a hook-up website."

Don't get me wrong, I recognise that you can use mental illness in humour but you have to be clever with it, for example this fake problem page letter (sent in anonymously), where the joke comes from the unexpected fact that the difficulty referenced throughout, is posture and not the more obvious Tourettes. You can even get away with laughing about somebody's symptoms if you're careful to laugh with them but showing that somebody is different and then ostracizing them is just terrible.