Category: the Rant Board
Look at them, all of them. The stumbling shambling faceless nameless lot of them. They are the blind, who embody nothing but the absolute worst traits in humankind. They are born of the purest evil that ever existed. Ungrateful, rude, unclean, fat, ugly, stupid, incompetent, undatable, unlovable, boring, having entitlement attitudes, whiners, causers of drama, and besides, they're just not normal! If you come upon a blind person, do not touch them, do not speak to them, just run away, run as fast as you can, they are agents of Satan himself, every last one of them!
... except for me!
I think I've met some people who actually are afraid of us. But just as annoying are those who want to put us on a pedalstool. Those who think we are amazing simply for getting out of bed each day and getting on with our lives. When I used to ride the bus to work, I came in contact with a bunch of both types of people.
I have been told I was amazing and even inspirational, and yet, such people do not want to know my name, and where is my flock of fawning fangirls if I'm that amazing? LOL!
However, what I'm actually making fun of is the hatred of the blind by the blind. I hear people talk about other blind people as if every quirk and foible is the worst thing people can be, and sighted people, well, the excuse is that sighted people don't do those thiings as often so they're apparently off the hook.
blind people bitch about other blind people to mask their own insecurities about their terrible incompetence and lack of fitting into society. Because so many people who are blind, who shit talk each other only have to take a good long look in the mirror to realize their shit talking themselves. But thats' never going to happen; They'll never realize it because they can't look into a mirror. They're blind. so the problem is never ending.
I mean, I personally new someone who's primary business in life was to bad mouthe the blind; He even told his son that his biggest mistake in life would be to date a blind girl. Yet, who was he, but a blind old fool, with shit for social skills, a sighted wife whom no one in their right mind would marry, and his daily living skills were as prominent and appealing as his looks must have been. His blind son wasn't any better, might I ad. Yet every fumble and stumble of any other blind person was a reason to celebrate and a topic of many hours of conversation. This man would talk about how blind people don't know how to use their canes properly as he spread butter on his toast with his hand. He would literally dig in to the butter container and scoop out lard with his hand and pile it onto his food. All while saying "boy, I tell ya, these blind people really crack me up." It's a scene especially fit for a comedy, or it would be if it wasnt' so pathetic.
In the next room, his seventeen year-old son, looking awkward and none-too-appealing (a description courtessy of a sighted friend), would sit there and clap his hands, making fun of some blind kids he's known at his blind school, all the while rocking back and forth and poking his eyes. "I couldn't be like the rest of them" he'd say with his finger knuckle-deep in past his dysfunctional eyeball.
go figure.
So yes, I completely understand and apreciate this satire.
Wow. I've come across some odd misconceptions, but never any that was to that extreme. That is extremely insecure. Even before my training, I never could imagine having such a view about other blind people. I hadn't met many blind people before that either.
The person Write Away mentioned, and many other blind folks like that, is where a lot of sighted people get misconceptions. Sometimes, it's not the person's fault. Until I was 16 years old, I was sheltered and catered to, and I figured that was the way things went for blind people. I was never exposed to anything different. I was not given the opportunity to fend for myself. I was not even given the common luxuries that young guys get, such as wrestling, Scouts, etc. My mom was too afraid to let me do anything that had the potential of injuring me. Once I moved out, it was a fast and harsh adjustment at my father's, then at foster care where at times I litterally was on my own. At first I was an easy target, until I picked up on when things did not seem right. At that point I was also on my own in the sense of independence. My foster dad didn't cater to me, and he didn't let me take shit from people. He was the true fatherly figure I never had. After some time, I left to go to the center to build upon that base my foster dad had help start.
Unfortunately, stories don't end in such a way for many other blind people, and so the common perspective of helplessness is how the sighted community sees us.
So Godzilla's Zone Nickname could rightly be The Zone's Mark Twain.
Nicely done.
And yeah I hate it with a passion. Personally I never understood it.
You don't see the blacks ridiculing the blakcs, the feminist women ridiculing other women, the Asians whipping the other Asians.
I dono about all these skills this and skills that but I'll say I chalk their thing up to too much meth and a punk-ass attitude that needs a good ol'-fashion beat down to bring them down to size maybe.
It's not new: It was reinforced in the 1970s as well, and looked as stupid foolish then as it does now. Perfectly intelligent adults who didn't believe in Bigfoot and the Skunk Ape made up terrifying myths about the blind to justify the beat-down they dished out. I realize it's porn for fundamentalists and other dogmatists, but I long ago - decades ago - put up a firewall between me and it. It ought to be treated as we do biohazardous materials meant for the toxic waste dumpt. Or rather, treated by sudden and swift fire and ice.
Interesting post.
I've never met anyone that is blind that puts down the blind, that can't do for themselves.
I have met blind people that expect to much of their other blind community however. Everyone is not at the same level, just like the sighted.
I used to be one of those people who tried to mask my own insecurities by making fun of other blind people, mostly in my head, band I agree it's something that shouldn't be tolerated, it's not ok just because it comes from another blind person.
Comedians poke and make fun of several different diverse groups, but there's nothing funny about doing it intentionally to hurt people's feelings, or make yourself feel better. However, at the same time, there's no reason to get pissed off and defensive at arrogant people, because that's exactly what they want. They want a reaction, so why give it to them? All you can do is try to straighten them out by trying to educate them, but if they refuse to listen then just let them rot and waste their miserable, pointless lives.
Hey dude I'm not fat!
skinny Bob
Meh, it's a snake eating its own tail. You will find this in the wider minority of physically disabled people. You'll find it in racial minorities, religious minorities, economic minorities. We desperately want to distance ourselves from what we, and society, consider inappropriate, even if it's not really possible to do.
Ah Bob, it's still the holiday season so let this warm your heart: You're not fat? you're at least 20 years my senior so I have something to work towards as a workout enthusiast hahahaha love it
Just stole that for my FB status :)
M is correct.
No prob, Rachel. I see you already got one comment on it.