> Tbf she doesn't do herself many favours so far as her public image is concerned
And if people have any criticisms of her for that, they should say so. What the hell has her being an amputee got to do with it? You'd think that she had deliberately and maliciously gone and had a car accident just to lose her leg to spite the rest of us.
I used to know a girl who once got indignant about the fact that when she had gone to the swimming pool that day—it was an open-air London one at the height of summer and thus very crowded—there had been a man with one arm. “I don’t want to have to look at that,” she said. “I don’t want to see his stump. There were kids there and everything.” Her gist appeared to be that he should go when there weren’t nearly so many normal people around. Is that what we’re seeing at the moment, on a much larger scale? Have the disabled got too uppity in recent years, and is it now time to remind them of their place?
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Date: 2007-11-02 01:56 pm (UTC)And if people have any criticisms of her for that, they should say so. What the hell has her being an amputee got to do with it? You'd think that she had deliberately and maliciously gone and had a car accident just to lose her leg to spite the rest of us.
I used to know a girl who once got indignant about the fact that when she had gone to the swimming pool that day—it was an open-air London one at the height of summer and thus very crowded—there had been a man with one arm. “I don’t want to have to look at that,” she said. “I don’t want to see his stump. There were kids there and everything.” Her gist appeared to be that he should go when there weren’t nearly so many normal people around. Is that what we’re seeing at the moment, on a much larger scale? Have the disabled got too uppity in recent years, and is it now time to remind them of their place?