Beware! There are two Bobs on this list serve now. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kyle E. Cleveland <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 4:58 AM Subject: Re: Women with Disabilities & "Gigalo" > Thanks for the "attaboy", Bob! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Hester [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 9:35 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Women with Disabilities & "Gigalo" > > Well said. In fact, I have a weakness for "handicapped > cartoons", you know, the row of mouse traps or lovers' leaps. etc., with a > ramp & an access symbol by one of them. > > > > > > > > > > >With regards to the statement someone made earlier that when we see movies > >featuring the disabled: How many disabled people aspire to the theatrical > >arts anyway? Well, there's that blind guy who was popular for a while, > >Matlin, and a handful of others, but you just can't take a PWD, hand them a > >script and say, "Okay, act out this role in a multi-million dollar film." > >Let's face it, it's a lot easier for a good actor to take on the > >affectations of a PWD than vice versa. How could "Rain Man" have been made > >with the genuine article? > > > >Personally, I am not offended by humor directed at anyone struck by one of > >life's arrows of fate. Everyone has some failing, idiosyncracy, foible > that > >makes them less than perfect. Humor, by its very nature, brings our > >failings to light. It forces us to realize that we ARE less than perfect. > >My father, when I was entering one of those "why me?" periods, said, "Look, > >here are the hands we've been dealt. Ain't a thing you can do to get new > >cards, so you can either laugh and live, or cry and die." > > > >We can sterilize our culture and make everything taboo that could possibly > >offend, but it would not be a very interesting place to live--I sure > >wouldn't want any part of it. > > > >-Kyle > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Anee Stanford [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > >Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 8:32 PM > >To: [log in to unmask] > >Subject: Re: Women with Disabilities & "Gigalo" > > > > > >In a message dated 12/4/1999 2:29:56 AM Central Standard Time, > >[log in to unmask] > >writes: > > > ><< Has anybody seen the ads for the new Adam Sandler {I believe} movie > >called > > "Gigolo"? It feature him as the title character "dating" women with > > Tourette's syndrome and narcolepsy. Hence, making fun of these > disabilities > > and making the assumption that women with disabilities are so desperate > we > > must pay for a man's company. I find this appalling. Why are disabilities > > considered an appropriate source of "humor"? Renee >> > > > >Hi everyone: > > > >On that point why is any group considered a source of humor? Sterotyping > >seems to be a way of life how many times have we seen the stero typical > >"nerd" or the "jock" or any of those...I have never met anyone that is as > >far > >as the etertainment industry takes these sterio types. Humor is a part of > >life and it is one thing that everyone can be a part of. Some are the > >subject of it more then others--this is true--but dose this meen that humor > >should not take place at all? Lafter has been proven to have benifical to > >ones health but what may be funny to one person won't be funny to another > >person. I don't know? I can't get too upset about it even though I don't > >find anything Adam Sandler dose to be funney but that's just not the type > of > >humor I like. > > > >Women and men with disabilities arn't always the butt of the joke though, > >just look at The Other Sister...shure there were some laughs in it...but it > >was more the story of a young woman becoming indpendent dispite a > disability > >and socitey then it was that disability was a thing to be laughed at. I > >think there need to be more movies like this personaly. > > > >Just my too cents. > > > >Anee > >http://www.geocities.com/aneecp/CPIC.html >