[stylist] question

[John Lee Clark]

Lori:

I love the words blind and deaf.  I abhor anything with impaired in it.

Although the definition of blind may say one who cannot see, and that's a
negative description, we still have the opportunity to neutralize the word
itself and have it convey something else entirely, into something that's
cool.  Same with deaf.  We can take it and turn it around, and associate it
with culture, pride, ASL, all sorts of great and positive things.

But you can't neutralize and turn around a term like sight impaired.  Tthat
term does two very bad, bad, bad things.  First, it implies that sight is
the ideal, that it's right, and what we SHOULD have, and that if we don't
have it, we SHOULD want it.  This is society talking, "Sight is better."  

Second, the term implies that we're broken or we're short of the ideal, or
we've fallen from the grace of what society says is normal.  This is very
bad, bad, bad.

Does NFB merely "prefer" the word blind?  It shouldn't.  it should embrace
it absolutely.  

John 

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