From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I'll confess I find it difficult to look at her, I should be lying if I > did not. > >annsan > > Okay, I'll add one thing, because I finally figured out how to word it, > annsan. > > By trying to "protect" her you are coming from the place that she NEEDS > protection. I.E. That there is something "wrong" with her, something defective, > something less than, something disabled, or maybe something even obscene, in a > > sense.
When annsan speaks in this thread her words can be summed up in one word - "empathy". Obviously this is something you and too many others in this thread show a lamentable lack of. Your words in the above paragraph is pathetically patronizing and if I were annsan I'd find them insulting. > Get it? > Lots of people don't like other people protecting them, because of > the downside implication of that protection. > > I've encountered disabled people (wheel chair types) who don't like people > falling all over them to help them just for that reason. Some do, of course, > because opening a door or something may be difficult for them. But others do not. > No one likes to be pitied. > > It was an honest portrayal. > I am now seriously tempted to go out and do street photography, and > especially do unflattering, honest portrayals of fat people, ugly people, disabled > people, homeless people, etc., just to confront our own inherent prejudices. Sheesh... Lasse
