OKAY so wow a lot of emotions in this thread. So far my experience with Deaf have all been positive. I have received no hostility. If i did though i am quite capible of taking up for myself. I am learning sign and do quite well with it. I enjoy it very much. I can get why some Deaf don't care for hearing based on their experiences. By the same token i could dislike straight people who treat me a gay man as sub human, or hate straight people all together for gay bashing and killing gay men. I don't though. I have had to deal with taunts and rude comments my whole life in school and so on and i don't "act gay". Deaf have every right to have a problem with how they have been treated but do not have the right to treat me bad, whom they do not know, because i am hearing. I am not the person who treated you badly. Be angry with them. as well you should be, but don't take that out on me.
gnu..... um i have read the back and forth between you and soars and it is quite puzzling to me. It reminds me of a former straight friend of mine who decided to tell me what gay culture was like. To tell me what it was to be a gay man, just because 2 of his uncles and one of his aunts are gay. I told him you have no concept what it is to be in my culture because you are not gay. Go sleep with a man and be harrassed for most of your life and be hated for the person you love and then come tell me what it is. You have no ability to even begin to tell me what it is to be gay. Just because you hung out with gays and some gays that are in your family. Makes no sense. Next you will be telling your girlfriend you know what it is to be a woman because you have a mother. I see what you are saying to soars and the same thing comes to mind. HE is deaf there are no two ways about it. Whether he signs or not does not change that fact. I have many Deaf friends myself. And although they accept me into their world i am not a part of it, because i am not deaf. I can have an opinion on some things but most i cannot because i am not Deaf. signing, oral, lip reading, writing everything down to communicate. These are all aspects of the deaf experience. Not just signing. You seem to be around Deaf people who consider those who don't sign less deaf than those who can sign. Just like there are some black people who say that a particular black person isn't black because they come from the islands, (i have heard this on more than one occasion) My point, (yes i have one LOL) is that you may know a lot about Deaf people, you may be around and in the Deaf community a great deal, as am i. There is not a day that goes by that i don't talk to my deaf friends and not a week that goes by that i don't see them. And i am pretty good with sign. By a lot of what you have said in these posts that would make me more deaf or big D DEAF than soars. i don't think anyone would think that makes sense what so ever. Just as my former friend had no abilty to tell me what it is to be a gay man, you really have no abilty to tell soars, a Deaf man what it is to be Deaf. thanks so much. =) and no i don't feel any ill will toward gnu =)
