[Blindtlk] Blind Devotion video

[Michael]

    You can go to jubilleproject.org and look for the title of the video and 
click on it.  When youtube comes up, click on the Play button and it should 
start playing the video.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Annely Rose via blindtlk
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2015 6:51 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list ; Blind Talk Mailing 
List ; nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org ; Arielle Silverman
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Blind Devotion video

Hi,

I was not able to access this video.  It wants you to go to You Tube, but 
not accessible.

Annely
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On Thu, 3/12/15, Arielle Silverman via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

Subject: [Blindtlk] Blind Devotion video
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>, "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>, 
nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2015, 12:34 AM

Dear all:
I recently learned that a nonprofit organization called
Jubilee
Project has created a very demeaning "inspirational" video
about
blindness. You can see it at
jubileeproject.org/home/blind-devotion/

In the video, a wife happily cooks and does laundry for her
husband.
Upon learning that she is going blind, she is afraid that if
she tells
him he will leave her, and she fears not being able to take
care of
him anymore. He finds out, and because his love for her is
so strong,
he starts doing things for her and follows her to work every
day
without her nowing, allegedly to be sure she is OK. He goes
to some
lengths to ensure she doesn't find out that he is following
her.

The 8-min film is rife with the usual blindness stereotypes
such as
her dropping shells into her scrambled eggs (which she
didn't do while
sighted) and smelling the laundry to sort it. In addition,
it sends
the message that a sighted man surreptitiously following a
blind woman
without her knowledge or consent is not only OK, but even a
sign of
true love.
A number of my blind friends and I found the video deeply
disturbing,
especially those of us who are married. I encourage you to
write to
Jubilee Project at
project.jubilee at gmail.com
, tweet them, write on their Facebook page, or write
comments on the
video itself. Public reaction to this film as been
overwhelmingly
positive. I think it would be good to get some blind voices
into the
mix to help explain how insulting and creepy this depiction
is.
Best, Arielle

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