Monday, December 22, 2008

Institutional deaf-ism

I was just watching TV on mute while I was on the phone, which automatically kicks on the Closed Captioning. When the NBA on ESPN commercial came on, there was nothing written in CC except two music notes. Now that's just mean.

"Hey deaf guy, there's some sweet music playing right now. What's that? You can't hear it? Ok, let me tell you about it. Oh, you don't know anything about music because you have no basis for comparison since you've been deaf since birth? And you can't hear what I'm saying right now? Hmmm...do you know what music notes look like? Bingo."

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