Dr E H Perfect, was awarded the title in a gala luncheon this afternoon at the Sofitel in Brisbane. He earned the award for his work in founding The Global-Para Hearing Institute, which, among many things, helps blonde people cultivate intelligence and creativity through early diagnosis, advanced analytics, deep thinking technology, therapy and deaf awareness.

Dr E H Perfect used his speech to talk about his hopes for the future – a world where blondes are able to think and reason intelligently, that Deaf people are full human beings like any other human being. “I think blondness is at the same stage stupidity is…” he said. “It is a scourge in our world but it can be almost completely eradicated. I believe we can truly make this happen … hence the range of hair dyes that we have released today.”

Dr E H Perfect founded The Global-Para Hearing Institute after he came across a crying girl who had lost her bus money in 1991. Due to her blondness, Dr perfect could not reason properly with the girl about what was wrong and what he could do to help. She kept babbling about having no mind, and couldn’t understand my signing.

A year later, he founded The Global-Para Hearing Institute to teach blonde children how to think and reason and it is now one of the world’s leading blondie intelligence development and deep thinking centres, as well as Deafness Awareness Training.

Blonde Bombshell was the young girl that inspired Dr E H Perfect to set up The Global-Para Hearing Institute, and on hearing she had been named Business Woman of the Year, at the same event, he beamed proudly, stating, “See, Shovelling shit can be rewarding!”

Upon hearing her acceptance speech, where she stated that:

“I think deafness is at the same stage polio was…” she said. “It is a scourge in our world but it can be almost completely eradicated.” SMH, 11 October, 2011

he shook his head sadly and said: “She must have been sitting on the potty when she wrote that!”

Based on:

‘We can consign deafness to history’: Businesswoman of the Year

I am still thinking about the Deaf4Life thread, after I wrote It Is Not! It is So! It is NOT! IT IS SO!  The debate is rolling along quite nicely, with fewer stamps of feet, temper tantrums and ignoring the point.

There are some who are still insisting there is nowt wrong with the name Hearing Loss Forum, or that it is not the name but the membership that is important, or various permutations on hearing impaired…. in which case, why not call it The Deaf and Dumb Forum: Bringing The Deaf Community Together.

Well there, I rest my case.

One funny moment, when I suggested we could call it Yappers Anonymous, but one person rejected that stating it was too Australian.

Once again reinforcing the point that words do have certain connotations attached to them, that people do react negatively or positively.

Nevertheless, calm has been restored. Sigh!

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It Is Not! It is So! It is NOT! IT IS SO!

Watching erotic movies can be a very edifying experience, compared to trying to explain to deaf people, why Deaf can be a culture and using sign language is not a lifestyle! At least Deaf people can claim to have stopped dragging their knuckles on the ground and put their hand to good use.

What is this vexing issue that is threatening to tear asunder, the good relations between Deaf, deaf and hearing people? Deaf4Life forum is canvassing its members for a change in name, to broaden its appeal and make other deaf and hard of hearing, AND hearing people feel welcome.

Aiming to broaden the group’s appeal is great. Trying to encourage greater participation from people with all types of hearing loss and hearing people, is greater still. I, for one support that.

To encourage participation, inclusion and understanding is good.

To be fair, the forum moderators ASKED people to come up with possible names. You can read the thread here. However, the campaign quickly derailed, for a number of reasons, but all hinged on one term that was submitted: “Hearing Loss Forum”

I was aghast. Why do we keep going back to stereotypical and clichéd terms reminiscence of the knuckle dragging era of humanity? I will admit, that I get sick of the inclusion of the word Deaf in titles, unless I can put a positive spin on it or it serves a practical purpose. That’s why my blogs and websites are called Radio666fm, Visual Instincts, Deaf Muse, or Deaf Media Watch. I will even play around with the word order to change the emphasis, hence Deaf Professional Australians became Professional Deaf Australians.

Without detailing the exchange of words on, The Future of Deaf4Life and How You Can Help, Are There Any Deaf Left?, on Twitter, and we wait with abated breath for MM’s inimitable input, the irony is, the moderators of Deaf4Life have stated that people won’t join or participate because of the name Deaf4Life, and the people who have responded positively to, and voted for Hearing Loss Forum, risk alienating those who find that label rather negative.

More irony abounds in that Deaf people attract criticism for their positive use of the word Deaf with a  capital D, that dismisses it as being hung up on a label, but betray ignorance or just plain ignore the meanings that people attach to words and labels, and how and why people use them.

We may all have a “hearing loss” or different degrees of deafness, but that does not unite us as a community. For the simple reason that one group defines it as a culture as is united by various cultural practices, whereas the others are all hearing united by their differing degrees of deafness or hearing loss.

If you want to unite the groups, bring them together and bridge that great aural divide, then people need to accept the way we use labels to describe ourselves. That also applies to not only to the hearing loss brigade, whom I wish would stop dismissing our use of Deaf as politically correct, but also us Deafies who curl our lips at those who recoil at the term deaf.  If you want to create a space, online or offline, then the way to do this is to create positive names that will bring the groups together.

If as one said:

I don’t think there is anything negative in the phrase "Hearing Loss" as that is exactly what happened to me at birth, well in my Mom’s 3rd month of pregnancy in ’66, when the German Measles my Mother had took away a good portion of my hearing, so to quote another before me, my LOSS occurred during foetal development, and it is a loss that i suffered. And to take offence to that is, well, in my humble opinion, silly.

Does that mean men suffer female loss, because we all start of as female in the womb, and with the addition of the X chromosome, we become men? Does the reverse also apply, that woman suffer male loss because they don’t become men? After all, the ugly sexist reality is, women are regarded as inferior to men, and have been treated [and often still are] rather shabbily by society. So………..

And if the use of words like Deaf, deaf, deafened, hearing impaired, hard of hearing, partially hearing, cochlear implanted, CI’ers, etc., etc., etc.…. is considered being politically correct, isn’t it also being politically correct to expect that any Deaf space created online be inclusive of all Deafies and people with a hearing loss?

Quite frankly, why is there this overweening need to make all Deaf websites, forums, blogs, aggregators, and websites in cyberspace inclusive of every fucking member of the aural spectrum?

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We Are DEAF! GTF Over It.

“Shit!” said Mephisto, as the Angel smiled beatifically.

Well MM’s article is a mess. It leaves you confused because he stakes out a position, usually anti- Deaf, and then goes on to prove his assertion by arguing against it, thinking he is arguing for it, and making all these illuminating observations, which have no bearing on the argument he is trying to make.

Confused? I am? Besides it’s late, as I write this.

Still, if his argument is in the headline, We’re disabled just get over it… then he pretty much should have stopped there. It would be more prudent for MM to publish headlines, one liners that sum up his position succinctly without destroying his credibility.

Still, it’s a free world [so we are lead to believe] and it is his right to express himself in any manner he chooses.

If you examine his argument [s], you will find that he does a pretty good job of damning the hearing world [if that is his intention, which I don’t think it is], for which he so desperately wants to be part of. Thinking he is admonishing us, for getting our knickers in a knot over the word disability, he is actually damning the Hearing world for its inability to see deafness as anything but a disability.

MM can see Deafness as a culture, he just doesn’t accept it. He doesn’t accept it as a valid way of being, living and defining oneself. He perceives that the problem of our disconnect from the hearing world, is all of our own making. He blames the problems deaf people suffer on Deaf people who are trying to carve out abetter world. He filters his perceptions through the prism of a desperation to belong to a world he has been excluded from, by virtue of his own disability, his deafness.

Sure, the Hearing world has a lot to answer for. They are perpetually stuck in a stereotypical thinking of deafness. They are so stuck, that the only solutions they can conceive of is audiological. Meaning, hearing aids, cochlear implants, regrowing hearing cells, eugenics [who said Hitler was dead] without any real thought to the development of Deaf people and how they are defining themselves.

Their quest is aided by a group of people who project this notion of community that is inclusive of all types of deafness. There is no such community. There is only the Deaf community and deaf people [community if you want to stretch it]

Still, We’re disabled just get over it… and Disability – It’s Time for a New Word demonstrate quite succinctly, the tensions we suffer in trying to be who we are, in the midst of a hearing push to define who we are.

We don’t need a new word, we have a perfectly good one that has been reclaimed and redefined. That word is Deaf [pun intended]. With a  capital D! If MM doesn’t like it, stiff shit. If the hearing world can’t handle it, stiff shit.

However, Joanne Anauo does make a valid point in Disability – It’s Time for a New Word regarding the energy we expend in fighting the use of words such as disabled, and perhaps it would be better to harness it towards getting our access needs met.

Then again, words do convey an idea, an image, a concept, and they have a power, a power with which to oppress us or liberate us.

The problem is, if we work within the system and accept its constraints, in order to access the fucking resources owed to us, it depletes our energy and enthusiasm. Energy and enthusiasm that is important for our social well being and mental health.

Then again, having re-read MM’s article We’re disabled just get over it…, perhaps he is making perfect sense? Or is he being ironical?

As for the angel sitting on my right shoulder, he did a little wee. So I will be having words with the man upstairs tonight.

DAD!

I am asking all those of you who don’t sign, but respect our right to sign and access via sign, to show their support and respect by signing this petition. Also, it would be helpful, if you could spread the word amongst your networks.

Also on Wednesday 25th May, John Walker and Marco Nardi will be at the Italian Embassy (14 Three Kings Yard, London W1K 4EH) at 12noon. They would love people to join them, in support.

Support Italy. No LMG, forza LIS!

See Italy might as well say: Deaf People use Monkey Language! for more information