Couple of links

[conuly]

But first - an update on my Bonne-maman.

Well, actually, I don't have one. Every time I call my mother, I get grumbles and incoherent muttering, but no details of what's going on. I surmise from this that there's no crisis *right now*, but that nothing's actually better, either.

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I have an article on dolls that represent disabled children. Edit: Found error (finally) and fixed.

Here's a good example of somebody Missing the Point, in a really stunning way, too:

"In early research into race stereotypes, in which black children were asked to choose from three dolls - one black, one brown and one white - and say which doll they would be most like, almost all chose the white doll,” Smith says. “This research is old and things may be different now, but it suggests that children want to identify with themselves as a positive, generally accepted image, ie, non-disabled, except in a short-term disability.”

I don't even know how I could possibly respond to that.

Meanwhile, apparently there is drama afoot in ohnotheydidnt on a related topic.

Drama, in a drama comm. My worldview is now officially shattered.

Comments

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

that... what?

that doesn't even make any sense.

[conuly]

It does make sense, but only in Bizarro world.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

It sounds like someone's quoting two completely different parts of an essay, but rammed them together without indicating that there ought to be something in between.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, I remember really wanting a doll like me, and so my mom bought me a look alike American Girl doll for Hanukkah and my birthday, and other than my flute, it was the most expensive thing I owned until I got a computer for college. She painted little pink dots on its arm in rows and numbered them to look like my immunotherapy shots and made clay doll sized models of my medication and strange food. I head a doll sized syringe, and told my best friend that she couldn't play that day because she had an allergy induced seizure, just like mine. I adored her. Children want to see dolls made like them because dolls are surrogate friends and hey want to know that it's alright to be the way they are. My seizures, which are temporal lobe seizures, cause me to act erratically and sometimes violently while I'm having them, and they scared the other kids. Very few were willing to talk to me. When a child is in that situation, they know that they are different, and children are frequently cruel to the different. It's nice to have a companion that's going through the same things, even if it is a doll. I told so many stories about my doll, and the things she got to do even though she was sick, and it made me feel much better. Disabled dolls are a good thing!

[conuly]

Thank you.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

That person misses the point that all dolls represent people, and no parent of a healthy child gets all bent out of shape that the bit of plastic is meant to represent their kid. Head meats wall time.

[conuly]

I thought about commenting to the article to say that, but decided that the quote really speaks for itself.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

And there's no reasoning with anyone who hasn't realized it already.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

that... what?

that doesn't even make any sense.

[conuly]

It does make sense, but only in Bizarro world.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

It sounds like someone's quoting two completely different parts of an essay, but rammed them together without indicating that there ought to be something in between.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, I remember really wanting a doll like me, and so my mom bought me a look alike American Girl doll for Hanukkah and my birthday, and other than my flute, it was the most expensive thing I owned until I got a computer for college. She painted little pink dots on its arm in rows and numbered them to look like my immunotherapy shots and made clay doll sized models of my medication and strange food. I head a doll sized syringe, and told my best friend that she couldn't play that day because she had an allergy induced seizure, just like mine. I adored her. Children want to see dolls made like them because dolls are surrogate friends and hey want to know that it's alright to be the way they are. My seizures, which are temporal lobe seizures, cause me to act erratically and sometimes violently while I'm having them, and they scared the other kids. Very few were willing to talk to me. When a child is in that situation, they know that they are different, and children are frequently cruel to the different. It's nice to have a companion that's going through the same things, even if it is a doll. I told so many stories about my doll, and the things she got to do even though she was sick, and it made me feel much better. Disabled dolls are a good thing!

[conuly]

Thank you.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

That person misses the point that all dolls represent people, and no parent of a healthy child gets all bent out of shape that the bit of plastic is meant to represent their kid. Head meats wall time.

[conuly]

I thought about commenting to the article to say that, but decided that the quote really speaks for itself.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

And there's no reasoning with anyone who hasn't realized it already.