Yes, there is a Deaf Sub-Culture, carved out the larger mainstream culture for self-identification and in perceived self-defense, just as there are the Queer Sub-Culture, the Fannish Sub-Culture, and so forth.
But to deliberately conceive a child with a birth defect? Monstrous. Despicable. Evil.
I barely have words for the amount of disgust this article stirs up in me.
Yes, there is a Deaf Sub-Culture, carved out the larger mainstream culture for self-identification and in perceived self-defense, just as there are the Queer Sub-Culture, the Fannish Sub-Culture, and so forth.
But to deliberately conceive a child with a birth defect? Monstrous. Despicable. Evil.
I barely have words for the amount of disgust this article stirs up in me.
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Date: 2004-01-25 12:02 am (UTC)Yes, there is a Deaf Sub-Culture, carved out the larger mainstream culture for self-identification and in perceived self-defense, just as there are the Queer Sub-Culture, the Fannish Sub-Culture, and so forth.
But to deliberately conceive a child with a birth defect? Monstrous. Despicable. Evil.
I barely have words for the amount of disgust this article stirs up in me.
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Date: 2004-01-25 12:02 am (UTC)Yes, there is a Deaf Sub-Culture, carved out the larger mainstream culture for self-identification and in perceived self-defense, just as there are the Queer Sub-Culture, the Fannish Sub-Culture, and so forth.
But to deliberately conceive a child with a birth defect? Monstrous. Despicable. Evil.
I barely have words for the amount of disgust this article stirs up in me.