Paotie to Pepsi: *burp!*
Denver – Good morning and welcome to The Eitoap Evening News Today. This special report has caused you to interrupt your usual evening of b/vlogging because you realize this article is one that will have you laughing out of your sides! Or maybe you will cry due to a very sad, emotional tale of Paotie’s grasshopper – who lived until Paotie sat down to write this article! There’s only one way to find out and that’s to keep on reading, of course, but I’m sure you already knew that.
HaHa!
I love to take advantage of DeafRead’s format! I love the teaser bit with the first paragraph of my article as the blurb.
Anyway, I’ve been busy doing lots of other writing projects. Most of it is unrelated to my blog, but it’s writing nonetheless and I didn’t want to neglect Paotie’s Green Couch readers (sorry, Pinkies!) and thought to drop in for today’s article.
Let’s see .. so a lot of people missed the Pepsi Super Bowl ad featuring “DEAF” people of some kind or another. It was just a marketing gimmick. I noticed a few people were upset with or praising Pepsi for making the ad. It was just a joke and a marketing gimmick for hearing people – not to promote Deaf culture or to stereotype anyone.
I used to work for a large home entertainment corporation. I delivered and installed people’s high-end HDTV’s, receivers, amplifiers/subwoofers (the bass) and other components that are part of the “surround sound” that you see in the “Special Features” section of many DVDs. That sound is what is very important to hearing people – so much so that people literally spend thousands of dollars investing on sound.
Imagine sound itself magnified by all the speakers and subwoofers – and it’s not to hear the sound better – it’s to experience the sound. Literally.
In fact, I used to have two subwoofers hooked up to my DVD player. If you don’t know what a subwoofer is – it’s a small box that vibrates to kingdom come. It is the thing that makes car radios do that thump thump .. thump BOOOM .. BOOOM BOOOM .. thump! noise when you stop at intersections and see cholos trying desperately hard to be like Paotie – cool.
HaHa!
Anyway .. I would rent DVDs like Apollo 13 and Armageddon and set up the two subwoofers on HIGH. And then I’d sit back and wait for the movie to play. During the opening scenes of Apollo 13, a rocket roars through the night-time air. If you have a subwoofer hooked-up to the DVD player/TV/receiver like I did, then you would feel the rocket’s roar.
AWESOME!
If you’ve been to a nightclub and remember feeling the beats of a song vibrating through the floor, the walls, and your clothes – that’s the work of an amplifier and bass/subwoofers. In fact, Paotie and one of his best buds – a Deaf stud – would frequently go to raves in the middle of the desert and dance the night away because we could feel the beat of the music. And a secret here: hearing people think it is AWESOME! that we can feel the beat.
So, the thing of the Pepsi ad was the “shocking sound of silence” – not a couple of people pretending to speak in subtitles. And to put this in perspective, I was at a Super Bowl Party early during the pre-game show with other hearing people. Most of the people were chatting and eating and drinking – not really watching the pre-game show.
At least at the party I was at, nobody flinched during the ad. The “shock” was drowned amid a sea of noises created when people eat, talk, walk, drink and even do all that all at once!
In the end, all the fusses over Pepsi only did one thing for sure: it fattened Pepsi’s profit margins.
Still, you’ve got to try the subwoofers! I swear! It’s AWESOME!
*laughs*
Well, I should probably also tell you that the po-lice were called to my apartment one night after playing some rap music for a few buddies of mine, and that the “Ohh! Sorry! I’m Deaf” excuse didn’t work, either.
*shrugs innocently and kicks a small pebble*
Be good .. or be good at it.
Paotie
Yeah– one time after my hearing took yet another nose dive I was driving down the road with my stereo cranked up and then I realized I could feel the music vibrating in the door and on my steering wheel. AWESOME!
At that moment, I knew I’d never completely lose music, though my tastes have changed in music a lot since then. Feeling it made me so HAPPY!! I don’t have a subwoofer, but you probably know you can get that effect holding a balloon right?
I was going to mention that Evelyn Glennie, the deaf drummer? She says hearing is in some ways just another sense of “touch” I can’t remember exactly how she put it, but if you think about how the cochlea works it makes sense because the little nerve hairs vibrate just like the hair on your skin. She “hears” her drums through feeling them too. That’s one reason I picked up the drum.
hmmm, what in the world does Eitoap mean? the online dictionary didn’t have any answers for me
great article! Keep em coming Paotie!
Yeah! Subwoofers are cool! I like listening to it…very loud and the beats are awesome. But, not in my vehicle! I don’t think I’d be able to drive~
But, in your house connected to your DVD? Gosh that is RADICAL!
Exactly Ann. They weren’t trying to raise Deaf awareness. There was no political agenda. It was simply a cute commercial. I didn’t even get to see it, but I saw it beforehand on video. I do appreciate products and businesses that acknowledge our existence occasionally either through the use of ASL in a commercial or by captioning their ads. McDonalds used to have a few ASL commericals, and there are some captioned commercials out there too. When it comes to buying products captioning does sway me a bit, but not unless the product is good to begin with. I don’t usually drink soda. I buy whatever’s on sale for my family– they aren’t picky between Coke or Pepsi.
Hate to spoil it for Dennis, but Eitoap is Paotie spelled backwards, like Oprah did for her Harpo Productions.
Pepsi spent several million dollars on the production of that commercial and the air time. Just imagine what NAD could have done with that money for the deaf community had Pepsi donated that sum to NAD instead. The commercial itself will be forgotten and the deaf community is no better off. Pepsi is just catering to its own public image and selling product– that’s what advertising is, the bottom line.
*chuckle” I did not see the commercial, but I know that it is just a commercial… nothing more. However, I see that a lot of people are making a deal out of it… overpraising it or overcriticizing it… either way. We have to remember that the majority of SuperBowl commericals are jokes.
I am with Kim… I don’t buy things based on the commercials.
But you have a point… I am sure many people have missed this 60-minute commerical due to the loud chatting, loud snacking, etc.
And of course, loud Subwoofers ;o)
I’ll be more than happy to be the Eitoap’s reporter to t-a-c-k-l-e the out loud’s AB Bell’s lack of sponsorship.
At the end of the burp’s Pepsi commercial, the man said, “sorry!”
Then, po-lice came to your apartment, all you said, “Sorry!” All the po-lice just gave you the head lice.
tick, tick, tick……and go on.
WTF? Since when do they put posts in EXTRA from main site? I could have sworn last night this post was in the main DR site.
TEll me I ain’t dreamin!
lol thanks for pointing that out kim. I”m so dense!
As for the commercial, i took it to be just that, a commercial advertising a product nothing more. After all why would a company spend money on it, they ain’t cheap ya know?
Candy ..
It was in the Main page – for about 30 minutes.
*laughs*
I don’t know how long it was before my article disappeared on Extra.
Paotie
Ahh… the nightclub experience. That is the only way I could what song is playing is by the vibrations that the subwoofer puts out. It helps when you have alcohol too
That makes it all the more enjoyable… 
Good times, good times indeed. I think i’m going to hit up a polish club this weekend. It is time for me and my pal Belvedere to get reacquianted!
I remember standing right in front of 398032948 watt speaker and my friends said,”you are going to blow your ears out!” My response, “It is a little too late for that!”
Now I had the same experience at a party, I saw the video but not many people paid attention to the pre-game show. What I found interesting but I wasn’t surprised is that sent the video to my hearing friends and a couple of them were really dense. They either said, “What was the point of that video?” or “How come there is no sound?” or “I thought something was wrong with the TV?” That gives you an idea of the mindset that superbowl watchers had when they saw that.
Everything has a price!
Paotie wrote:
“It is the thing that makes car radios do that thump thump .. thump BOOOM .. BOOOM BOOOM .. thump! noise when you stop at intersections and see cholos trying desperately hard to be like Paotie – cool.”
This sentence captured my attention, and I decided to check the word, cholos and I found out that this is indeed an ethnic slur.
According to Wikipedia: List of Ethnic Slurs
(Latin American Spanish, USA) used to refer to people of perceived amerindian descent. It may be derogatory depending on circumstances…[48]
Paotie… are you using this word to help us to see the imagery of you in the car showing off your stereo system in the neighborhood where most Mexican-Americans are living, or are you inserting the word in this sentence as to derogate/mock the group of people?
Just wondering…
Amy Cohen Efron
Amy ..
Read your own definition carefully:
“(Latin American Spanish, USA) used to refer to people of perceived amerindian descent. It may be derogatory depending on circumstances…[48]”
It says “depending on circumstances.”
Are you really that paranoid about “ethnic slurs?”
*laughs*
Paotie
Here’s another Wiki definition of “cholo”:
“In modern Mexico and the U.S., “cholo” is a term implying a working-class Mexican or Chicano, not necessarily a gangster, though cholos are often assumed to be gang members. A cholo is stereotypically depicted as wearing baggy chinos (khaki pants) or khaki shorts with white knee-high socks, dark washed jeans as prisoners wear, so-called “wifebeater” undershirts or white sleeveless t-shirts, flannel shirts buttoned all the way to the top or unbuttoned except for the top button, and charlie brown shirts.”
Click here.
Why didn’t Amy complain about the “preppie” stereotype, and focused only on the “cholo?”
*whistles an obscure tune*
Hypocritical DeafRead editors – as usual.
Paotie
Paotie –
I understand where you are coming from. However, not many people understand the kind of culture you and others have.
Ya know, it is okay for us to make some jokes unless you understand the scripts itself to enterain people.
Jay Leno, Dave Letterman, Canon O’Brien, Carson Daly Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, Saturday Night Live and others have made fun of things in America.
Love it every bits.
Paotie,
I am representing myself as an individual, and I am not commenting you as an editor of DeafRead.
That’s why I am using my full name, and I am asking what is your intention of using the word, cholo. It is an ethnic slur, however you think otherwise.
Is it so easy for you to come up with a quick assumption that whatever I write on your blog, which means I speak for DeafRead?
The answer is:
NO, I don’t speak for DeafRead while I am writing this comment.
Thank you so much for your response, and I hope the readers will learn about your intention of using the word, cholo on your blog.
Amy Cohen Efron
Amy ..
Well, you REPRESENT DeafRead even if you pretend not to.
So, let’s review:
You didn’t know what “cholo” meant, so you looked up the word. And upon reading a few definitions, you are now an expert at all matters relating to “ethnic slurs.”
Right. Right.
What’d you say about assuming, again?
Go back to pretending to NOT represent DeafRead whilst you are.
*laughs*
Paotie
By the way ..
Since Amy is the newest expert on “ethnic slurs,” why then does DeafRead routinely allow articles and vlogs containing the word, “hearies,” which is a derogatory term itself?
And she’s obsessing over “cholo?”
More hypocrisy.
Paotie
Then, let’s vote some more so Paotie’s blog can move into the headlines from extra!
We are the fans that raising our arms in the audience.
Go, go, go, go!
Come on, folks!
Paotie has gotten a lot of votes so far, and he’s still here…for the time being. HA! I knew it…first it was the “pornograhpy” now it is assumed “enthic slur”. WGAF? I’m a dago and proud of it!
Yeah, Candy, ditto.
WTF and FTS with the editors?!?!?!
*serenades Amy*
Sunny Day
Sweepin’ the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sesame Street?
Come and play
Everything’s A-OK
Friendly neighbors there
That’s where we meet
*laughs*
Paotie
Call this hypocrisy all you want.
I merely asked you what is your intention of the word. Regardless if that is an ethnic slur or not.
This is what I get from you by making me look less credible as an individual. You still associate me with DeafRead. That is your pejorative.
That’s fine with me. It is your blog and your own domain.
That’ll be my last comment on your blog.
Have a great life, be good or be good at it (to make people feel very insignificant).
Amy Cohen Efron
*laughs*
“This is what I get from you by making me look less credible as an individual. You still associate me with DeafRead. That is your pejorative.”
Uh-huh. Gee, someone’s still projecting.
Paotie
No, Candy, you weren’t imagining things. I saw last night the switcheroo of this blog from main page to extra, too. I also said WTF?
Somebody getting uptight over the word “cholo”?? Paotie used the word in a colorful context in his story, what should he have used, “spic”? Cholo is not an offensive term, given the context of his story, but spic would be. Or do you want the color drained out of the story by being politically correct, using the word Mexican or Mexican-American? There’s a big difference.
Seems to me somebody in DR is nitpicking over a slur word when he/she is actually upset over Paotie’s take on the Pepsi ad…
Or maybe because “subwoofers” are tools of “audism?”
*laughs*
Paotie
I checked the Extra and Paotie’s has 15 votes… I believe it has enough votes to be bumped to the main section. The human editors better act on this or they’d look more odd, purposely leaving Paotie’s in Extra, with more than 10 votes…. hmmmm…
Paotie explained very clear about the word “cholo” and it seems to be accepted by the majority, so I don’t know why there is a fuss over it. We call hearing people “hearies” and deaf people are called “deaf and mute” (now it is said with pride) and “deafies”… I have said “deafies” and “hearies” several times and no one called me on it. So I don’t see any problem with it, after Paotie answered Amy’s question and cholo. I learned something new, a new Spanish word
), next to uno. dos, tres, hmmm… I can’t remember what comes next, hee, hee.
Ann_C
He’s beautiful Mexcian-American. He should be proud of his
Hederity (spell?)
yes, DR editors are very nitpicking over a slur word. So the pornograhy…..pffft.
Which one is worse… pornography or slur words? Seems to be blurry to me… Deaf and mute was seen as slur word until Ella changed it to positive word. For a while, “fix” was almost akin to a slur word …
AgBad is a slur word, so it should be put into Extra, right?
) Just trying to make a point…
Well, well, if Paotie has some Mexican heritage, then he’’s certainly using the word cholo as an interesting term, not a derogatory term. It’s like what blacks say, it’s not all right for a honky like Don Imus to call the Rutger’s team “nappy-headed ho’s”, but it’s all right for blacks, er, African-Americans, to call their womenfolk nappy-headed ho’s. Geez.
What’s with DR, when there’s a blog on Extra with 15 votes and it’s not on the front page?
I believe that DR’s is making a statement to Paotie.
16 votes now… that is silly. DR should honor the guidelines of Extra. It is kinda comical now…
Yes, Karen, there’s a steamed editor taking it out on Paotie. It’s becoming a personal agenda, and it’s unprofessional.
I just checked the guidelines at DeafRead in regards to Extra…
“An addition to DeafRead Guidelines is as follows:
“If a post delegated to DeafRead Extra is in complete breach of Guidelines, no number of votes can move it to DeafRead.”
The greater goal of voting on DeafRead Extra is to express your enjoyment of that post. Your vote helps others decide which posts they should read. This is therefore a self-moderating feature. However, if a post 1) falls into the aforementioned grey area, and 2) receives a number of votes, we may re-consider our original judgment and wish to share the post with more people by moving it to DeafRead. Essentially, voters in DeafRead Extra are helping, but does not direct, us to see posts in a different light.
There are posts that do not fall in grey areas, but instead are simply unpublishable. They may be commercial or pornographic links. This falls in the “complete breach of Guidelines” category. No matter the number of votes, they cannot be moved to DeafRead and will remain in DeafRead Extra.”
Since Amy convinced the human editors that “cholo” is a slur word, no amount of votes would move this blog to front page.
So it is a personal issue for human editors.
*laughs*
Let’s break this down into simple levels. We will not even have to use psychoanalysis, either!
Here is what my article said, including the word, “cholo.”
—-
“It is the thing that makes car radios do that thump thump .. thump BOOOM .. BOOOM BOOOM .. thump! noise when you stop at intersections and see cholos trying desperately hard to be like Paotie – cool.”
—-
Ok .. keywords in the above paragraph discussing subwoofers:
“car radios”
“thump thump”
“thump BOOOM”
“BOOOOOM BOOOM”
“thump!”
“intersections”
“cholos”
“Paotie”
“cool”
(anything negative?)
Aigh’t?
Now, let’s review the DR editor’s comment, in which she revealed she claimed to have never heard the word, “cholo” in her life until today. She also stated she “researched” the word and asked for “clarification.”
Okay? Everybody following (especially, you DR editors)?
The very last paragraph of her comment says:
—
“Paotie… are you using this word to help us to see the imagery of you in the car showing off your stereo system in the neighborhood where most Mexican-Americans are living, or are you inserting the word in this sentence as to derogate/mock the group of people?”
—
The DR editor’s keywords are:
“imagery”
“showing off”
“your”
“stereo system”
“neighborhood”
“Mexican-Americans”
“living”
“inserting”
“derogate”
“mock”
“group of people”
——————–
*laughs*
Amazing how the DR editor got all that vivid imagery from a simple paragraph! I’m not sure if “showing off” is negative or not, so I’ll let you decide if both of her “examples” were negative, anyway. Which means that there was no “clarification” needed because she had already given me two options – “showing off” and “mock/derogate” – to respond towards.
Anyway, I had the image of myself in a loud, rappin’ car that was booming sounds and imagined a lowrider – with “cholos” waving their arms in conjunction to my car’s beats. And then we hooked up the same song/beats, and BOY!
THAT WAS AWESOME!!
I sure dunno how the DR editor got all those horrible ideas about “cholos!”
*raps*
Play that funky music white boy
Play that funky music right
Play that funky music white boy
Lay down the boogie and play that funky music till you die
Till you die
Oh ya, ya
———
Paotie
Giggling… yeah, Paotie. Pretty comical, with human editors scratching their heads over your choice of words, debating which word is appropriate or not.
Hahahhaa…funny.
I wonder what JJ is thinking about this… I can mentally hear him saying hee hawing, hmmm ummm… without upsetting the other human editors… hahaha…
I had never heard the term cholos. I’ve just looked up everything I could on it and my take is that it CAN be a disparaging remark on a personal level but that it’s not universally a racial slur. It depends on who says what. That said, I’m no linguist. Paotie has repeatedly mentioned his Mexican-American background. I doubt he meant it as a racial slur. It’s silly to keep Paotie’s blog here in Extra. I just voted, so it’s up to 17 now.
One more thing ..
I forgot to ask someone how a “neighborhood” was derived/extrapolated from an “intersection” – especially a “Mexican-American neighborhood.”
Gawrsh! WOW! I had no idea we could now figure out WHICH neighborhoods people talk about when we say, “intersection.”
“Did you drive by the Intersection in Colorado last night? There was a spitball-shooting! Terrible neighborhood in New Mexico!”
*resumes dancing*
Paotie
Where are you, JJ ?!?!? I’ll have to drag you to get here, JJ !!! Get over here, JJ !!!!
I have *NEVER* liked Ella Lentz’s blog. She is proud to put “deaf and mute” in her blog and the DR got go-ahead and put her blog into the front page!
So, cholos VS. mute?
I do not think the word, “Cholos” is insentitive as I agreed with Kim. I looked up the dictionary, too.
Tongue-pffttt! Boo-hoo, DR!
I already voted for Paotie.
18 votes in 18 hours, hummmm! One vote per hour?
Come on over, DRs!
I know… the DeafRead Extra guideline is specific that if there are any perceived slurs, pornographic item/words, etc., no number of votes would be able to move a v/blog to the front page. So it seems to me that there is a personal vendatta against Paotie from DeafRead’s human editors. Or is it something that was agreed on at DeafRead conference, huh?
As much as I adore Paotie’s blog, I’ve no time for persnickety people hen-pecking over terminologies because I believe life is too short. Enjoy life, folks. Just hate to see Paotie’s pink place not appreciated.. *hugs*
Cholo can be an insult AND a compliment. I checked out Urban Dictionary for the term ..
“In Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile and Colombia the word CHOLO is both an insult and a compliment, but mostly a way to describe a person of Indigenous heritage.”
It’s my belief a person needs to frequent this site more often before passing an assumption about the character or the words a person posts.
theExpatriate, yup you are right. I believe that the human editors have it for Paotie, because Paotie challenged them on the grounds of neutrality and I believe they did not take it well (with an exception of JJ who appeared to help calm waters with human editors.) So it seems to me that there is a game going on… trying to show Paotie who is in charge. Right, Paotie? I think it is hard for some people to admit that they don’t always understand the words… which reminds me of New York Times Magazine’s William Safire who LOVES playing with words… finding slangs, vocabulary words, etc., and espousing on them, making them sound sense to our dull, average minds…
19 votes… I am sure the human editors are squirming in their seats by now…
)
Call me a skeptic, or just plain naive, but I never really believed in the conspiracy theories about DeafRead. But the comments here are changing my mind.
I didn’t see “cholo” to be offensive as used here. It seems a tad self-righteous to step in on someone’s blog and assume the worst of a particular word.
What really got me interested in this entry was the fate of the grasshopper. Cause as a representative of People for the Ethical Treatment of Grasshoppers, I was hooked by the first paragraph. Are details forthcoming?
Do you have JJ’s personal email? He said if you have a problem to write “personally” so you can write him. He gets it.
*laughs*
What if it was entombed in fossilized amber?
Does that count?
Paotie
Paotie, you sat on a grasshopper to write this article? maybe it was because he was perched on your green couch and blended with the green color, so you didn’t see him when you sat down. See how people can let their imagination run amok and take words out of context??
20 votes in 20 hours….one vote per hour…..
still counting…..
We can squirming DRs.
You know what-to-do. DRs do not know anything about the Public Policy and Administration……
Ann ..
Yup. Couldn’t have said it better than you did.
I guess some people like to look through binocular lenses while trying to analyze a computer screen’s pixel.
Paotie
kim ..
I emailed him, already.
We don’t know if DR didn’t pick up my article because of the word, or some other issue. Cos, ‘member .. Amy “wasn’t” speaking as a DR editor – she was speaking “personally.”
So, we have no idea why my article hasn’t been moved, yet.
So, I asked JJ, “What’s the problem?” That’s it.
Paotie
I want to see some proofs. I *truly* think that Amy have spoken on the behalf of the DR editors, “not personally”.
We will see what JJ has to say to you.
Seven of Nine? Come on, P!
*pouting* So, sad that we slurrrr… Drink too much?
*runs hands over face in a upward motion and reveals a grin from ear to ear*
Subwoofers!! Some people can’t lighten up and who gives a f***! Let’s talk about noise!! Boy, do I have a story! You know concerts?? You know AC/DC?? You know Heavy Metal?? Yea!! NOISE! I remember way back when I was 15 and my sister invited me to THE concert! And it was in Colorado to boot!! At the Cherry Creek outdoor stadium. Anyway, we were on the 10th row! Subwoofers to the wasctoo!! I’m telling you speakers bigger than you and me! Why do I keep going off into tangents here?? Anyway, 10th row and AC/DC just making music and I didn’t hear a damn thing cuz I felt it all!! The best night of my life! But the funny thing is that (deaf or not) I woke up the next morning with my ears ringing!! *laughs* I still remember it! MUSIC and PARTY! Wow! Those were the days!
That is why my feet are on a subwoofer right now, no sh*t!! Serious, ask my wife and she will tell you that she has told me a thousand times to “turn the damn thing down!” *laughs* Still love her a ton. But yea, subwoofer on my feet so that I can feel everything. It is connected to my PC with an awesome sound card and 7.1 channels! Blah, blah and blah! But I love this sh*t!! Play all my games with it and f*ck the TV – it is PC with subwoofer with the movie! Now, that is life!!
Poatie!! Thanks for letting me relive my life experience! Totally awesome!!
WTF!! I forgot to vote!! Be right back!!
Paotie–
I’m not sure whether to take this personally or to feel slighted but whenever you sign off with a happy face to me you always forget your nose. And I have a thing about noselessness, as you know, from my comments about the hotdog.
Kim
Brian ..
Good times = Good vibrations!
*sings and dances ala Marky Mark*
Yo! It’s about that time
To bring forth the rhythm and the rhyme
I’m a get mine so get yours
I wanna see sweat comin’ out your pores
On the house tip is how I’m swingin’ this
Strictly Hip-Hop boy, I ain’t singin’ this
Bringing this to the entire nation
Black, white, red, brown
Feel the vibration
Come on come on
Feel it feel it
Feel the vibration!
Paotie
Ahhhh… I see that the human editors’ (or rather, one specific human editor and it seems to me that the other human editors are afraid of of her) tactic is working… by blatantly ignoring you, allowing the “invasion” of NAD and AgBad into the DeafRead… I thought they were all for balance… and they called CI blogs as an “invasion”?
tsk, tsk, tsk….
WTF! DR editors have moved Joey Baer into the front page from extra today!
To me, obviously, Amy had spoken on the behalf of DRs to ban you this entry from entering the front page, NOT personally!
We ain’t that dumb!
Well, we already noticed that Paotie is the least understood blogger in the DeafRead and it takes certain people to understand him and his genius. It is amazing at how truth is right in people’s face, and they just ignore it… if truth is too hard for them to handle, they’d just shove it away. If it is easy, they’d either attack or embrace it.
Tis human nature.
It makes me feel sad when bloggers blatantly attack other bloggers. I read a post last night where one of them complained once again about Mikes vlogging orally, yet in the same sentence she criticized his ASL skills (which none of us have seen). But she said he was at a fourth-grade level. Sometimes I feel we can’t win. If you use ASL, they criticize. Who wouldn’t feel more comfortable using their voice? Then, if you vlog orally and caption, they get pissed off. Oh– and I loved the comment by the person who said she couldn’t stand to sit through his vlog. She would rather just read a transcript. Good Gawd! Do she watch movies?? With an attitude like that she’ll take us back to the 70’s before anything was captioned.
I’m sorry Paotie– off subject I know. I’m just venting.
But on the one hand we have an obvious attack against a real blogger being posted right on the front page with nasty comments about his ASL abilities. This is just downright slimy.
Then? There’s this imaginary attack against some imaginary people because of one word that *may sometimes be* offensive.
kim ..
Excellent!
Well said!
Feeling better – after your recent illness?
)
Paotie
Paotie– I still feel like shit– thanks. I was in a lot of pain last night and my pee is orange. Sorry if that’s too much information. I haven’t eaten today. I don’t know what to eat, but at leats I am not in pain when I’m not digesting food.
So here we go again. . . a hard-of-hearing friend just joined DeafRead about a week ago. I blogged about her blog a little. She’s a wonderful person. She’s HH, has worked in advocacy for deaf/deaf-blind all her life. She has just gone back to school this past year to get another degree. She has a blog called aradicalsabbatical that was published in DeafRead for the first time about 10 days ago. Her blog is about her school experiences. Now it’s suddenly been “inactivated” As you know, blogs only become inactive when people haven’t posted for a couple months. Her last post was on. . . let’s see. . . They published on Feb. 1st. She posted to her blog again on Feb. 3rd, then again on Feb 8th. I noticed “a work in progress” has suddenly become “inactive” again even though she has been posting regularly too.
Sorry– off topic again I know– just feeling bitchy.
Kim
Huh… sounds like something inspired in DeafRead conference which lead to “inactiving” blogs…
I am glad to hear that you are living
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