tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post3086293141500143765..comments2024-03-19T07:36:33.915-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: Failure - A Three Part SymponyDave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-85265150199638881652008-08-06T14:03:00.000-04:002008-08-06T14:03:00.000-04:00That's a good point, lina. Thanks for pointing th...That's a good point, lina. Thanks for pointing that out, since I didn't think of it (I'm the same anonymous as the Brave New World anonymous). Still, it would be interesting to compare staff employment as it stands to what it would be if disabled people actually got to choose whether or not they had staff, who they might hire, or what the staff might do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-44441483862059909562008-08-05T19:02:00.000-04:002008-08-05T19:02:00.000-04:00Oh dear, doesn't Joe know by now that something 'b...Oh dear, doesn't Joe know by now that something 'bloggish' happens every day? I don't know about you but I live with my eyes and ears open, looking for something colourful to write about every day.<BR/><BR/>Something about this blog reminded me of the movie 'Tim' (in my humble opinion Mel Gibson's finest moment). And you're absolutely right, who the HELL are the 'experts' to tell people they have no right to love and explore their sexuality because they have a handicap, intellectual or physical?<BR/><BR/>This is what gets me about humans, they can't can't just operate as souls attracted to one another, and let themselves be moved by nature and instinct - everything has to be intellectualised and appropriate social rules set down for it to be considered 'valid' or 'proper'.<BR/><BR/>I would applaud you but then I'd buckle and the knees and spend the next hour getting back in my chair :PGainahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08495953058626656188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-37796970104798142722008-08-05T13:20:00.000-04:002008-08-05T13:20:00.000-04:00Woe the staff when we arrived at home if I were th...Woe the staff when we arrived at home if I were the woman who was denied her bit of eye-candy! There is no greater joy than watching nearly nude men, in all their suntanned glory, in the midst of testosterone driven competition! As someone who does work FOR people with disabilities, I'm always trying to find fun and free things to do. Some of the young women I hang out with are very much into "scoping" - they don't really talk, and aren't that interested in developing relationships with the guys they work and live with. But...take them on campus (we live in a large university town)at the beginning of the fall semster, and you can practically hear their hearts beat faster and their juices flow as they get their fill of "babes", as one gal says. If I ever cut their time short, there would be hell to pay. <BR/><BR/>Have you ever had to communicate rationally with a woman (with or without any disabilities) who is really pissed off and whose hormones are raging? Not a pretty picture!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-48052017575667247342008-08-05T09:39:00.000-04:002008-08-05T09:39:00.000-04:00Firstly, I'm surprised Joe would even ask that que...Firstly, I'm surprised Joe would even ask that question yet - surely he was joking!<BR/>But here's my secondly, ok anonymous and Belinda - I hear what you are saying - but rather than concerning ourselves with 'working ourselves out of a job', how about coming to that place where if you are working for 'someone', any someone, you do just that. If I hired someone to work for me, they would do as I want - or the job they were paid to do - for me. And, I may need to do that someday. Why not consider that person with the disabilty as my boss. If that person is satisfied - then I keep my job, and if not, then I don't.<BR/>Not my client, not my....place what ever other word you would like here, but my boss - they are in charge - and that person determines how my job is done.<BR/>Does that make sense? And so, wandering, and risk and fun without any other purpose - would be allowed if that's what my boss has intended for the day. Talk about a Brave New World - (and thanks for reminding me about that book - a great read from the past!)linahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00675640977094855867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-81933776772108806212008-08-05T09:13:00.000-04:002008-08-05T09:13:00.000-04:00Addendum:Rather than "being unnecessary," I should...Addendum:<BR/>Rather than "being unnecessary," I should have said, "working ourselves out of a job." That was what I meant.Belindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09251920708783268740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-10162651714020624732008-08-05T09:12:00.000-04:002008-08-05T09:12:00.000-04:00"Something bloggish?" I love it!... "Something blo..."Something bloggish?" I love it!... "Something bloggish this way comes."<BR/><BR/>Reading Anonymous's comment, I have to agree with an element there. I think we would do well to focus more on being unnecessary and also on being as invisible as possible. We might never succeed in either goal (or perhaps we might), but the effort would produce good results and a healthier mindset.Belindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09251920708783268740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-39338966588613934692008-08-05T07:49:00.000-04:002008-08-05T07:49:00.000-04:00And yet.What if all staff completely disappeared, ...And yet.<BR/><BR/>What if all staff completely disappeared, and people with disabilities were really, truly independent? Would the results be so awful? People might say, "Well, they might get hurt" or "Well, all of their needs might not be met." Who cares? I'm not considered disabled, and I could get hurt. Sometimes my needs aren't met. That's life. In fact, there have been times when I have been hurt. And thank God I had that opportunity. Failure number one might have been that the staff was there at all. The danger of living an unfree life is far greater than the dangers I mentioned above. <BR/><BR/>Have you ever read "Brave New World"? In it, a character named the Savage doesn't fit in with the sick distopia that has developed, in which everyone want to be comfortable at all times. He has a conversation with another character named Mustapha Mond:<BR/><BR/>"In fact', said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.'<BR/>'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.'<BR/><BR/>'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence.<BR/>'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com