This post focuses mostly on the deaf community, but I am by no means singling them out. It could easily be applied to several different communities
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I feel the same way about the hypocrisy of feminism. But then again that could be because I just started taking a sociology of gender for an easy A, which could easily be renamed Feminism 101.
It also doesn't help that the guy teaching it sounds like Keanu Reeves when he talks and cannot convincingly come off as knowing the next word coming out of his mouth without looking at his notes (sometimes the next word being 'sociology').
The most difficult part of being disabled is that you are GIVEN conflicting messages: "You can do anything, but you still have limitations and you should go find help for them." Finding the middle ground where you accept your identity but not let it be your main identification is difficult. As it is with most other groups, the people who do well are not the people who make noise and form pride groups; they are the ones who live their lives normally. Those people who make a huge show are the ones who perpetuate those stereoypes.
That said, a celebration for a subculture every once in a while is not a bad thing. As you said, it's just when it becomes the only identification you have when it becomes a problem.
I definitely agree with what you said. I suppose I really should have clarified that it's particularly the public face of these communities, the activist organizations that tend to send out the simultaneous conflicting information.
And yes, having just celibrated St. me day, it'd be pretty hypocritical of me to say embracing a sub-culture at all is a bad thing
unrelated:thanks. on the tree: Sound like you are "suffering from" a very logical bias against kinship with humans who identify too strongly with any group, which is common fucking sense, if you ask me.
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It also doesn't help that the guy teaching it sounds like Keanu Reeves when he talks and cannot convincingly come off as knowing the next word coming out of his mouth without looking at his notes (sometimes the next word being 'sociology').
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That said, a celebration for a subculture every once in a while is not a bad thing. As you said, it's just when it becomes the only identification you have when it becomes a problem.
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And yes, having just celibrated St. me day, it'd be pretty hypocritical of me to say embracing a sub-culture at all is a bad thing
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What I meant to say was, I don't think it's even exclusion, it's something less strong, more like ... I don't know. Labeling.
You familiar with the term "faloon?" I think it's from Vonnegut somewhere.
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on the tree: Sound like you are "suffering from" a very logical bias against kinship with humans who identify too strongly with any group, which is common fucking sense, if you ask me.
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