[Sportsandrec] Research Not Survey

[Ashley Bramlett]

Carley,
You're the only blind person that will stand calling  our canes as sticks. 
They are not just sticks, more important than that. I think we should 
educate sighted people about their real name and what they are used for.

Now on a rec question with canes, where do you place your cane while working 
out? It has to be near you to grab it if you are in the gym, so you can move 
around. But also has to be out of the way. Usually I place it beside the 
equipment I'm using or if there is little space, I put it under the 
equipment.
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Carly Mihalakis
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 7:42 PM
To: Sports and Recreation for the Blind Discussion List ; Sports and 
Recreation for the Blind Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Research Not Survey

Hi, Justin,

It's not THAT important. Why should we speak of the stick in
reverent, terms when it's a part of us that ought to be a given?

I just don't like the pretentious sound of it.
Initiated folk don't call it a wheelchair, although others do
prefering instead to call it what it is, a chair. It's the same for
us, doncha think?don't Original Message----- From: JUSTIN LOUCHART
>Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:06 AM
>To: Sports and Recreation for the Blind Discussion List
>Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Research Not Survey
>
>Good morning, Jody,
>
>A stick is actually grammatically and fundamentally correct, seeing as
>it serves no other function. A stick is not a definitional preface
>based upon matter or material thereof. Our cultural disposition to
>meet the word stick with negativity is only that, a cultural
>disposition.
>In every language I speak the word for the long cane is comparable to
>an English word for stick, as in German, schtuk. I would be dismayed
>to find this singular cultural disposition causing a glitch between
>multiple parties of the blindness contingent. We deal with enough
>negativity as humans in the first place, dealing with extra relative
>merely to our dialectical diction seems... unnecessary.
>
>Similarly, I'm totally on board with helping to explore historically
>significant paradigm shifts. Bring on the Louis and Clark!
>
>Justin
>
>On 8/11/12, jody at thewhitehats.com <jody at thewhitehats.com> wrote:
>>Hi Justin,
>>
>>Yes, and a sighted guide will forget to remind you of curbs and obstacles
>>but the guide dog does not forget.  Hahahaha
>>
>>Especially spouses.
>>
>>JODY
>>
>>
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>--
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>
>Inveniam Viam Aut Faciam
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