tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post8507338850903844268..comments2024-03-19T07:36:33.915-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: Disability and DisplaysDave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-38340996176323961902017-11-27T22:46:58.534-05:002017-11-27T22:46:58.534-05:00Ooooh...I HATE that. Do NOT pretend that disabilit...Ooooh...I HATE that. Do NOT pretend that disability doesn't exist. Don't pretend that we are "all the same" and that you understand the barriers that people with disabilities face each and every day. Unless you actually have a disability, you do not and can not ever understand. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06352332380562232996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-16349549029027101492017-11-09T10:26:35.121-05:002017-11-09T10:26:35.121-05:00I haven't heard people describe character flaw...I haven't heard people describe character flaws as "disabilities" before, but my reaction is about the same as yours--it doesn't make sense to me, and I don't like it. <br /><br />In thinking about it, I think one of the reasons I don't like it is because it posits the whole concept of "disability" as something wrong or "bad" in an individual person, in complete disregard for whatever role an inaccessible environment might play in creating what could be easily avoidable difficulties in our lives. So I think I dislike it both because it confuses the concept of what a disability even IS, and because it implies that disability automatically means something "wrong" or "bad" about the person.Andrea Shettle, MSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16984732076766787818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-32264230848246667802017-11-06T09:24:57.478-05:002017-11-06T09:24:57.478-05:00Yes those displays are annoying, I'm sure I ha...Yes those displays are annoying, I'm sure I have knocked over one or two of them. I like when they are lightweight because I can move them over myself. I too am not a fan of the "everyone has a disability" comment. Sometimes I guess it's an attempt to relate and say we're not that different from you, this time it seems like an excuse not to keep things accessible. I've seen the expression used to try to say that character flaws are disabilities, so everyone has one... never made any sense to me. Wouldn't that mean that people who have actual physical, sensory, mental disabilities, since they must also have character flaws, have extra disabilities? Or is it supposed to mean that people with those actual, obvious disabilities have better characters/are somehow made better people because of their disabilities? Anyway, I don't like the expression! Shannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12064897477140634544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-18497254144456569122017-11-06T08:28:49.004-05:002017-11-06T08:28:49.004-05:00Willful cuss wasn't she? Ironically - looks li...Willful cuss wasn't she? Ironically - looks like it's a disabling willfulness. She certainly is blind to something significant . . . . Ron Arnoldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05852385982605070675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-53911610211700081102017-11-06T00:42:56.788-05:002017-11-06T00:42:56.788-05:00I hate it when stores block aisles with displays.
...I hate it when stores block aisles with displays.<br /><br />and when you complain, they shrug.<br /><br />and if you accidentally knock a display over, they get cross.<br /><br />One of the worst offenders I've encountered is a chemist/pharmacy - ironic, given that that is where elderly and disabled people go to get prescription and over the counter medicine: Friendlies Chemist Subiaco.Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18285070926705237161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-7185332272789731242017-11-05T15:45:18.566-05:002017-11-05T15:45:18.566-05:00And there might not have been an "elsewhere&q...And there might not have been an "elsewhere" to shop, for you or for any one.Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-31217521738511472222017-11-05T14:19:30.677-05:002017-11-05T14:19:30.677-05:00I'm glad you left - hope you can find what you...I'm glad you left - hope you can find what you wanted elsewhere.<br /><br />Leaving the house and going into a store shouldn't be planning WWIII. <br /><br />Just as if they wouldn't put a 6-foot wall which requires scaling with a rope in the path of most of their customers, they shouldn't narrow aisles below anything reasonable (and lawful) with their seasonal displays.<br /><br />They think it allows them to display the maximum amount of merchandise. I think it makes it much more likely that customers will make a mess - because there is no room not to. So a bad idea even without us.ABEhrhardthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17211038591900883672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-18755509203153239622017-11-05T11:01:12.045-05:002017-11-05T11:01:12.045-05:00Ugh....just ugly. Ugh....just ugly. clairesmumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12235828110880302069noreply@blogger.com