[IrelandVIPNews] Re: Wording on notices
- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
- To: <irelandvipnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:48:02 +0100
This sure has been an interesting debate.
I 'see'/envisage myself am blind: I am not 'vision' impaired. Do those
among us and
others whom we term as vision-impaired have a problem with being described
as 'partially sighted' by soiciety in general? Or does society have a
[problem with the description, 'partially-sighted?'
In all of this, regarding the sighted world we
should be careful that we are not coming across as feeling resentful, unless
we are going to be all-out political as well. (In other words, we (if being
political) must be prepared to take the consequences, negative as wellas
positive.) We each have our own opinions on what is acceptable; and some of
us have a higher threshold or thicker skin than others, due to our
experiences and circumstances and the ups-and-downs of our lives. In the
same way, sighted and non-disabled people each have their own opinions, and
they, like us, where the opportunity presents, will try to act according to
what they believe. The word 'handicap' isn't being used as much as
formerly, which is fine by me. However, the acid test is: does it change
for the better the behaviour of the non-blind rest of the world towards our
requirements? (And this does include the provision of funds - be they from
governmental, and non-governmental philanthropic organisations and from
individuals - for our requirements as expressed by us and our agencies and
organisations in which, hopefully, we speak for ourselves.)
Referring to something Ed said earlier. African-Americans do use the term
'nigger' among themselves, but (as far as I know, and I'm willing to be
'corrected' if it is to the contry) - as far as I know, they don't like it
if people of different colour skin refer to them as niggers. It's like
slang, acceptable in some contexts, but not in socially polite circles.
In some parts of the world, blind people refer to each other as 'blinks'. I
think that the term 'blinks' as used by anyone to describe blind people is
extremely derogatory and betrays a substantial inferiority complex of its
user even worse than that which may be experienced when being
inappropriately described as handicapped. (I haven't heard the radio ad, by
the way.)
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