To say that people or political trends are "Too PC" is to risk being
reactive and reactionary to the attempts of the disenfranchised to gain
enfranchisement.  It seems to me to be another wrinkle in the splintering of
the collective and political into the social and personal, the splintering
of substance into style.

We get stuck on wanting the quick fix and palliative.  If everything's so
great, why so much complaining, pain, struggle?

Kyle and Bobby, whom I profoundly respect, manifest the macho male, stiff
upper lip, approach--take responsibility, don't complain.  Good and bad in
that approach and I think they're smart enough, men enough, to rethink and
revisit, if not modify, their assumptions and self images.  They'll
encounter the stone walls of their own assumptions in a good man's time.

I think things seem and feel too PC because we're at that time of our
culture and politics that's seen momentous international, political,
economic, social, sexual, personal change at accelerated pace.  In this
country we're experiencing a long and sustained economic expansion and
redistribution of wealth for those lucky and clever enough to take
advantage.

The advent of the home computer and email has opened many of us all around
the world to many possibilities and points of view beyond our "normal"
scope.  We now touch and influence one another in ways we barely recognize.

I don't see too PC.  I don't know how that gets in the way of having fun
(what ever fun is? Something like the pursuit of happiness?)  Maybe too much
noise, too little effect.  I'd rather focus on doing, getting results, and
moving on.  If that feels good, so much the better, at least for me: it's
all in the doing and being done. ;-)

Steve M.



>From: lawrence keplinger <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List"
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Focus on Disability
>Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 10:11:09 +0000
>
>i agree with denise, we are getting to pc and  it gets in the way of having
>fun.
>
>dan
>
>"Denise D. Goodman" wrote:
>
> > There have been a few threads on the disabled in movies, how strangers
>stare,
> > how to talk to children about disability, etc.   I believe it was Kyle
>who
> > said we are too PC, (not just the disabled- but I think society in
>general).
> > I guess the point I just wanted to make was everyone on the list only
>"knows"
> > me from my posts.  What I talk about are issues related to CP.  BUT,
>after
> > I've sent my stuff to the list, I don't spend the rest of my day
>"focused" on
> > disability.  Perhaps it seems that we are too sensitive or focused about
> > disability, because for the most part that is what we talk about, and
>why
> > not?  This is what this whole support group is for.  I imagine most
>members
> > don't yak all day about being disabled.  It's just a part of who you
>are.  We
> > come here to share info and discuss our feelings with others who have
>been in
> > our shoes.  Anyway, I just thought I'd mention that point.  - Denise.

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