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!
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> -----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"
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>          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.
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> >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?
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> >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
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> >-----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"
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> >In a message dated 12/4/1999 2:29:56 AM Central Standard Time,
> >[log in to unmask]
> >writes:
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> ><< 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.
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> >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
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