tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post5470562666590943409..comments2024-03-16T16:44:18.220-07:00Comments on Bad Cripple: More on Health Care Hysteriawilliam Peacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00223601480542461802noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post-46188795439430938722009-08-13T05:14:18.410-07:002009-08-13T05:14:18.410-07:00Elizabeth, Thanks for your interesting comments. Y...Elizabeth, Thanks for your interesting comments. Your comparison to the struggle of women's rights is spot on. I also loved your description of blogs as modern day quilting bees. These points highlight why the blogging community that is disability related is important. I too find the blogs I read heartening in that I know my views are not extreme and shared by others. <br />News sources do indeed quote bloggers but not often. I wonder why this is the case--would such quotes lend credibility to people they do not respect?<br /> Like you, the utter lack of coverage of disability related subjects from a civil rights point of view is frustrating in the extreme. Stories about the super cripple of today or super woman that became a doctor circa WWII ignore the many who are discriminated against.william Peacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00223601480542461802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post-55832459527090500742009-08-13T03:28:57.598-07:002009-08-13T03:28:57.598-07:00It is true that I have been sourced by news and ot...It is true that I have been sourced by news and other print media because the 'blog' is the sort of 'human story' to add on to the print story which is then printed online. Since most people get the news online (or many do) quoting reputable bloggers with credentials (such as yourself) is anticipated and already here. It is irksome that the BBC or CNN, or CBC has not given the space officially to create blogs by people with disabilities/impairments - if only to have that resource in their pool to pluck from. Yes, the down side is the unpredictable nature but the BBC had an editor to go through, and I don't see why the CBC which has one blog every other month (my GOD! Can you get a little LESS symbolic representation please? We are 1 in 6 in Canada!), is sort of saying, the same way the reshaping of the BBC Ouch to make disabled people the 4th group of users (after relatives, professionals and caretakers) excludes them. To me, this is like medicine BEFORE examining the human body and doing autopsies: It is all a guess and they are going to stick with that.<br /><br />I agree, the problem is that there is no desire or incentive EVEN in areas that are desperate for workers (and they were pretty damn desperate here) to allow disabled individuals to work. To me, this goes beyond and into the realm of the way women were seen before WWII and WWI - we laud the one woman doctor of WWI on the field, but what about the 300 who WANTED to be but just didn't have everything align so they could go to med school? We assume that women who were stuffed into homes or into watching the children of married siblings were not wanting jobs when that is not the case - the case is society did not want to hire them.<br /><br />In this we have in a way the diaries of people like Elizabeth Bishop, and Woolf who talk about a room of their own with eloquence but by the time society changes will they ever really understand what it was like to live here. OR are we the disposable generation, like those with disabilities before us. That we are not supposed to WANT a job, and so we are turned down for our own good. And by the time anyone put it through the thick skull of the US population that we and thee are not that far apart; we will be forgotten, I fear.<br /><br />Blogging helps me know I am not alone, it is the quilting bees that helps me know that my worries are the worries of others. But it is not something that will be held up as important; no, only when we break into what society considers of value will what we say have the meaning it should. That is of course, my opinion. <br /><br />Thank you for making me think about this and I am sad to come up with this conclusion. I look forward to your observations.Elizabeth McClunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03627373214555333537noreply@blogger.com