[nabs-l] Social Stuff

[Teal Bloodworth]

first i am a girl and second...those things might've been inappropriate to 
say but you know what i felt threatened. Saying that i was saying because 
they were homosexual and thats not what i meant at all. I knew they had a 
part in it and was simply trying to put the perspective of what kind of 
people i lived with. Coming through the windows with cops following and 
everything else because they did not respect me at all.

Sorry to those offended on the content of me clarrifying what was drawn but 
think about what you are saying to me as well. Like i said i felt very 
threatened by the remark that was put towards me.

            -Teal
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christoper Kchao" <thisischris89 at gmail.com>
To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Social Stuff


> Hi,
> It was not my intent to personally call anyone out in my last post. In 
> fact,
> I agree with Meghan that the orientation of the roommates has little to do
> with whether or not people drew inappropriate things on the walls. More to
> the point, I'm tempted to think that Teal's word were more than likely
> misinterpreted or poorly chosen, and he simply brought up the nature of 
> his
> roommates to further shed light on what exactly the inappropriate
> phrases/drawings involved. I apologize if i was at all unclear regarding 
> the
> intent of my message, given the brief nature in which it was written.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Sean Whalen
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:57 PM
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Social Stuff
>
> It may be beside the immediate point, but is certainly relevant. 
> Attributing
> the inappropriate drawings to the fact that the roommates were gay is
> completely absurd. Sure, the inappropriate content may have been different
> inappropriate content had the roommates been heterosexual, but it would 
> have
> been inappropriate content just the same.
>
> As a minority population that is often discriminated against, 
> misunderstood,
> and mischaracterized, I find it odd that some among us think it 
> respectable
> to do the same to other groups.
>
> Believe me, there are plenty of college apartments with heterosexual 
> content
> that would offend many scrawled on their walls.
>
> It bothered me when I first saw that message, but I decided to let it go.
>
> Now that we're here, Meghan is 100% right. Here here and two thumbs up!
>
> More to the immediate point, I don't think filthy apartments are any
> indicator of social awkwardness or akin to eye poking, rocking, etc. While 
> I
> agree wholeheartedly with Arielle on the issue, I think it is also useful 
> to
> realize that social norms apply to the blind as well as the sighted. I 
> don't
> think it holds water to say that sighted people have their own 
> idiosyncratic
> things about them so it is OK for blind people to rock. Social norms 
> matter.
> How you look and present yourself matters. It is certainly inappropriate 
> to
> label every undesirable behavior of a blind child, e.g. obstinacy or
> egocentricity as a symptom of social dysfunction, but I think it useful 
> and
> appropriate for parents to discourage behaviors, commonly called 
> blindisms,
> which only serve to perpetuate societies views on blindness and to further
> set apart the blind individual as different.
>
> Sean
>
>
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