[nabs-l] Do you find this offensive?

[Christopher Kchao]

I really don't think it even warrents a response. Honestly, it was meant to
be a cheap shot and nothing more. There really isn't any reason to respond
to it because all that does is try to legitimize/validate something that
took less than two seconds to think of and was done in good taste. I find
that a lot of blind people try to counter these things to get a laugh, and
all it really does is bring the original joke back to the surface where
people probably wouldn't have given it much thought otherwise. 
I personally didn't find it offensive. More to the point, I couldn't help
but laugh a bit because that's so true sometimes. How many times have you
talked to another blind person and they're almost facing the complete
opposite way? It's not that serious. *smiles*

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Jamie Principato
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 2:14 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Do you find this offensive?

Lol, I don't find that offensive at all. I think it was a nice try at
good-natured... just not very well thought out. I mean, it didn't get as
much of a giggle out of me as the first two did. I like your response, and I
think it'll show them that blind people aren't super sensative people that
everyone has to tiptoe around because every little thing will offend us and
make us wish we could see. It'll show that we have a sense of humor too.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Haben Girma <habnkid at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Hello, all. I'm a student at Lewis & Clark College. A member of the
> Disabled Student Services just contacted me to alert me of a comment in
the
> student newspaper she thought might be offensive. The comment was in a
> column on the back of the paper titled "You Caught My Eye," which is a
> series of  comments of the form:
>
> You:  Tall glass.
> Me: wanting to fill you with alcohol.
> You: Erotic Dancer.
> Me: Severely unimpressed.
>
> The comment thought to be offensive was:
>
> You: blind kid.
> Me: Caught you not looking at me.
>
> I'm wondering what you all think of it. The Disabled Student Services
> office wants to respond to the comment. How do you think they should
> respond? I personally don't find the comment offensive and might respond
> like this:
>
> You: Sighted kid.
> Me: Writing secrets in dots you'll never understand.
>
> Best,
> Haben
>
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