[stylist] question

Mon Mar 23 17:38:06 UTC 2009

Helene:

The term sighted wannabe is not clear.  It could very easily mean a sighted
person who wants to be blind, because "wannabes" are sometimes used for
those in the mainstream who want to join a minority--like whites who want to
be black, city clickers who are cowboy wannabes, nerds who are biker
wannabes, and so on.

As for ablest, I was unaware of this term.  But the Deaf don't use it,
because they don't believe deafness is a disability to begin with.  So
they'll stick with audist, and besides it was coined a long, long time ago,
before I was born.

Hey you all, do you want to use ablest or something else more specific to
the blind community?

Ablist, to me, sounds rather weak.  The word needs to be a bit more gruff.

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Hi John,
I don't know any term either. I think you would just use the term
ablist same as you would someone who discriminate against someone for
any other disability.

I've not heard of the term hearing headed. I've heard them being
called Heafies. I'd use the term hearing wanabies. I think you can
have sighted wanabies too. They would be people that don't want to
accept their blindness and are desperately waiting for a cure.

Helene

On 23/03/2009, Robert Jaquiss <rjaquiss at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hello John:
>
>      I have been an active member of the NFB since the spring of 1990. I
> have not heard of terms for those legally blind people who try to pass
> themselves off as sighted. My view is that if a person has a significant
> vision loss, then "passing" is extremely difficult if not impossible.
> Historically, some literature used to describe blind people used the term
> "sightless", or more recently "partially blind" or "partials". The last
two
> terms were and sometimes still used to describe those of us who have some
> vision.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert Jaquiss
>
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>> Yo, blinks:
>>
>> Just read my first issue of the Monitor.  The Ved Mahta piece reminded me
>> to
>> ask you all two questions.  I am wondering if you have a term that you
use
>> for two concepts I am sure that very much exists.
>>
>> The definition of the first one would have a picture of Ved Mahta himself
>> or
>> someone else more notorious in your community for this type.  The text
>> definition would be something like "a blind person who is in denial or
>> refuses to embrace blind identity and in fact takes pains to avoid blind
>> people or being associated with the blind community."  The black
community
>> has its own version, called Uncle Tom or Oreo--dark on the outside but
>> white
>> inside.  The Deaf community has this type, too, called hearing-headed,
>> with
>> a special sign that implies the person is hearing in his head, obsessed
>> with
>> trying to be hearing.  The most notorious hearing-head is probably
Heather
>> Weatherstone, who was Miss America but is a graduate of the much-hated
>> Clarke oralist school and doesn't sign or anything.
>>
>> So what do you call a blind person like that?
>>
>> Now, I'd like to learn what you call something else.  Blacks have to deal
>> with racism, which is the belief that blacks are a lower class.  Women
>> often
>> encounter sexism, which is the belief in the inferiority of one gender
>> under
>> another.  Young people and old people sometimes suffer from ageism, which
>> is
>> discrimination against someone because of that person's age.  The signing
>> community has to work against audism.  Our most villainous audist figure
>> is
>> Alexander Graham Bell, and he is the subject of many works of Deaf art,
>> taking the role of a monster, a dread ghost, and in a famous poem he is
>> the
>> Pilate who crucifixes Laurent Clerc, the most beloved Deaf historical
>> figure, the first Deaf teacher in America.
>>
>> So what do you call bigotry targeting the blind?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> John
>>
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