In case you missed it.. (Updated 6/16)
by Ally
For those of you who missed any of the press from yesterday, here are links for everything I could find! Comment, share, enjoy!
Connected Comedy Podcast (can’t believe I forgot to add this one! This podcast was the first public discussion of the event)
Get in Mah Belly (Blog)
APP.com .. They’re talking about us in Jersey apparently
And for the sake of being impartial to my own case, here is someone who disagrees: Gary Presley’s Blog
~Ally
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And here you are in the Louisville Courier Journal.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012306150038&nclick_check=1
As an aside, I just spoke with a few folks at CPD, and not a one of them (records, Chief’s Office, and an un-ID’d person of unknown Dept who transferred me without a word, and not a one of them told me that I was being vulgar or offensive when I used word ‘crippled’…multiple times in several contexts, too. The woman in Cheif’s office laughed heartily when I asked her how offensive Iwas being to her with that word. She shut up quickly when I told her I was recording her laughter instead her telling me it was’vulgar and offensive’, per se.. Too bad the audio is too fuzzy to use or it might’ve been of use somehow (???). I can say that CPD is very hypocritical on this subject. Of course.
I live in a tiny Oklahoma town, and have a (legally) blind wife and ‘crippled’ wheelchair-bound mother-in-law. They often refer to themselves as crippled in public and never has anyone seen it as offensive or vulgar (etc, etc, etc).
I wish I could do more to help on this. The world has FAR too many persons that refuse to be honest to themselves, let alone others.
In the same thought process – would a person being called a janitor rather than a Waste-Engineer Specialist (or similar pseudonym) be seen as grossly vulgar and treated as if they were criminal? I very much doubt it.
Ally, please, please, please keep fighting for what you believe in. Disabilities are NOT anything to be shameful of, or avoided, etc. You know this as well as any other person, I am sure. Hang in there (hugs…….)
Alex
PS it is interesting that as soon as I mentioned your name and want to get copy of ‘arrest report’, it became an immediate transfer to Supervisor or above – seemed worried about releasing the info of what their Dept did, LOL! That was basically the reason I inquired about this – to see if it was a ‘hot topic’ for them. Certainly is/was, no doubt at all
As if the police don’t have enough to keep them busy. Apparently they are the Crippled ones.
I have lived with a woman, my wife, who has SMA, and to be honest, I am the “disabled” person.
Good luck int the Crippled Court.
Generally, I think the point of my post was that “ain’t no way we’re getting the whole story from a measly news report.” It turned into a bit of “he said, she said” when it came to describing your friend’s behavior. If in fact (as above) he was arrested because of the word “crippled,” I’d say Cincinnati has trampled on his rights, and yours.
By the way: a top-notch guerrilla marketing tool, that word.
My one point of “disagreement” relates to a place where you may have been quoted out of context. It’s the “proud to be … ” remark. I take no pride in a circumstance over which I have no control or which I cannot change. I have even seen other people take the idea to the extreme — that they wouldn’t change their cripple’ness even if they had the opportunity.
But I ain’t here to argue. It’s a philosophical question anyway, a question related to how a person makes his or her life “work” for them. For me, it’s a little bit of humor, a little bit of suppressed anger, a high-powered BS detector, and unrestricted access to pain pills, yogurt, protein bars, and green tea. Oh, yes. Add Abraham Lincoln’s aphorism: “Most folks are about has happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Hope to see you on Letterman or Leno soon.
Gary
Just heard about this today. Unbelievable! Anyway, love the site and hope you keep doin’ what you’re doin’. Would love it if you came to Zanies in Nashville, too!
AND in the Ventura County Star
http://m.vcstar.com/news/2012/jun/19/ohio-comedy-promoter-cited-for-crippled-quip/
Keep us laughing.
This reminds me of when my boys were young, about kindergarten and fifth grade, and came home from school wanting to know what bad words were. Aparently some child had used a “bad” word in school and the principal had held an assembly to discuss the problem. My answer, with help from my mom, was there are no bad words, only bad feelings and intensions. To demonstrate what I meant I shouted angrily “I love you” at the boys – then tenderly told them they were the worst, most horrible children I knew, while holding them close to me. We talked about wanting to make people feel hurt or happy and all the ways we communicate our feelings and intent to others. Finally, we agreed that sometimes,when we are hurt, it helps to have “bad” words to say, so we made some up so they could “curse” without hurting others or getting in trouble. We decided one word would be fireplace- that’s an ash hole, you know. Get it? My kids did. Another incident occurred when a teacher continuously belittled one of them and I toldhimto reply “Did no one ever tell you that humiliation is not an effective didactic tool?” Needless to say, the teacher stopped.
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