Deafhood? No thanks.

Like certain people around here.
 
It's not easy to be positive about something when someone is negative to it. This goes with anything.
 
damn, i dont know how Deafhood began and the aslproject.wordpress.com is indeed angry and bitter - so set in their own ways thinking that they are authorities that must have the final say. Nope. They are bashing terps and that's lame.
 
I think republicans and democrats seem negative and angry too btw, she mention there are MANY great terps.
 
Bottesini said:
Well actually, the site they left, that A mentions, they thought it was invaded with people who are too "hearing minded."
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Sometimes I think Deafread is too hearing minded and I'm a CI. No one would ever call me deaf militant - whatever that is.
 
deafskeptic said:
Sometimes I think Deafread is too hearing minded and I'm a CI. No one would ever call me deaf militant - whatever that is.
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But isn't every deaf-hoh perspective worthwhile? Don't they have a right to share their thoughts and feelings via blogs? Isn't Deafread for all deaf-hoh people? Or is it just for those who call theselves Deaf?
 
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faire_jour said:
deafskeptic said:
Sometimes I think Deafread is too hearing minded and I'm a CI. No one would ever call me deaf militant - whatever that is.
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But isn't every deaf-hoh perspective worthwhile? Don't they have a right to share their thoughts and feelings via blogs? Isn't Deafread for all deaf-hoh people? Or is it just for those who call theselves Deaf?
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Well, to be honest, by bycotting DeafRead, the Deaf community under-represented themselves. They have every rights to demand protection from what they see as audism, but, at the same time, boycotts don't really work when you're a minority within a minority.
 
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faire_jour said:
But isn't every deaf-hoh perspective worthwhile? Don't they have a right to share their thoughts and feelings via blogs? Isn't Deafread for all deaf-hoh people? Or is it just for those who call theselves Deaf?
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Too many of the blogs seem to be more focused on the hearing world. I don't think Alldeaf is too centered on the hearing world. And it's also for for all kinds of deaf people.
 
faire_jour said:
But isn't every deaf-hoh perspective worthwhile? Don't they have a right to share their thoughts and feelings via blogs? Isn't Deafread for all deaf-hoh people? Or is it just for those who call theselves Deaf?
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Yes, it is for anybody who have an interest on hearing loss issues or have a hearing loss themselves. Nothing in Deafread says that it's reserved only for Deaf people.

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An aggregator simply gathers posts; it does not mean we support or reject the content within each post. We don't censor blogs based on the bloggers' opinions. We publish everything as long as it is deaf-related and satisfies the guidelines.
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Deaf Blogs and Vlogs - DeafRead

Guidelines:
Deaf Blogs and Vlogs - DeafRead

People got pissy when DR allowed blogs that talked about cochlear implants. That's pretty much the gist of it as far as I could tell.
 
deafskeptic said:
Too many of the blogs seem to be more focused on the hearing world. I don't think Alldeaf is too centered on the hearing world. And it's also for for all kinds of deaf people.
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I noticed the same. The great thing with AD is that the cochlear eggheads stay in their own forums, so their ranting don't appear on the front page.

I don't use deafread anymore, too much dull stuff about cochlears. It's other better places out there now. Perhaps deafread should make a own section about cochlears, like on AD.
 
and dull stuffs about speech progress as well. I went through speech therapy once, don't need to read about it over and over again . Too boring for me. So deafread is not interesting to me anymore because most of it seem to be about that.
 
flip said:
I noticed the same. The great thing with AD is that the cochlear eggheads stay in their own forums, so their ranting don't appear on the front page.

I don't use deafread anymore, too much dull stuff about cochlears. It's other better places out there now. Perhaps deafread should make a own section about cochlears, like on AD.
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They sorta did...
 
So, in reality it's All Deaf and not all deaf people? That same line of thought can be applied to DeafRead as well.
 
kokonut said:
Sure. They are free to want that. Just as those who are free not to have to do anything with "deafhood."
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So, if you disagree with their motives and intents, ignore the group. You have a choice not to join. Frankly, you are just mirroring their actions by starting a thread here to discuss the whys and wherefores of the groups intentions.

Gossip much?
 
jillio said:
So, if you disagree with their motives and intents, ignore the group. You have a choice not to join. Frankly, you are just mirroring their actions by starting a thread here to discuss the whys and wherefores of the groups intentions.

Gossip much?
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Troll much :lol:
 
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