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Bob Hester <[log in to unmask]>
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St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
Date:
Sat, 11 Dec 1999 20:35:09 -0600
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At 08:30 AM 12/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm with Anee here.  I think we take ourselves and our disabilities too darn
>seriously.  Sure, having CP sucks, but so does political correctness.  The
>disabled community (PWDs, LSTMFTs, PWAL, FTCSFS and whatever other acronyms
>are popular this week) is in danger of of becoming a monoculture in that the
>only issue they talk about, think about, champion is their disability.
         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

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