[blparent] My story and request for help

[Steve Jacobson]

The purpose of this list is to discuss blind parenting.  Let's get away from the personalities.  Gabe, so often you offer advice 
that really is pretty good, but you seem unable to keep yourself from offending as 
many people as possible in the same note.  And of course, those offended can't help but respond to the whole list rather than to 
just Gabe or possibly to me.  Let's end this part of the thread immediately and return to helping if we can.  Help has to be 
offered based on what is, not what should have been in some opinions.  We do not know the routes that each person has taken to get 
to where they are now, so it isn't fair to make assumptions.  For a list to be successful, some diplomacy is required.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson
List moderator

On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:48:04 -0500, Eric Calhoun wrote:

>Gabe, you ask: Why is it that when I contribute a less than disagreeable
>statement I get villified by women on this list?  In the messages you wrote
>about Pipi, only one showed an ounce of compassion.  And as Arielle, Jo
>Elizabeth, Tamwy, Jennifer, and Rebecca pointed out, your statements seem
>to be outlandish.  To correct one of your statements, (Do I have a witness
>here?), Pipi is not looking for a handout.  She is concerned about the
>deteriorating sight she has left.  She is reaching out to NFB for _help. 
>She is going to the Colorado Center for the Blind for that reason.  That's
>not a handout, good friend, that's a hand.  (Would someone pray with me
>now?)  The answer, Gabe, is you want things _your way.  Well, Eric Calhoun
>cannot have his way, and so cannot Gabe Vega.  The reason why you get
>villified by the women on this list is that you make out-of-left-field
>statements.  Would someone get the news to Gabe he can't have his cake and
>eat it too?

>Eric
>..

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