It all depends on how you look at it. I don't mind being referred to as a
blink if it is meant in good-natured fun. When used in that manner, it is
not at all meant as a derogatory term, and no harm is meant by the user. If
it is meant as a derogatory term, and meant to insult, then I would take
offense. Take the post that Phil sent out that listed the 10 top reasons a
mainstream game is played by blind people. Was it meant in jest?, or in
harm. It didn't bother me one darned bit. It was funny, and that is how it
was intended. So why take offense when, obviously, none was meant?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Trouble" <troub...@columbus.rr.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Clearing Up Some Myths About Mainstream Games
i can tell you the reason its coming out.
it is just as degrading to the blind community as a few others are to
different cultures.
They don't like being called those terms and neither should you.
The person you mentioned that slings this saying around has big issues
with blindness. You can really tell it in a interview done with him about
going blind.
So anyone that condones it or uses it is degrading those with
disabilities.
You should educate instead of discriminate!
I am visually impaired or blind not a DAM BLINK!
At 11:31 AM 2/10/2011, you wrote:
I hadn't actually heard the term blink until Che martin first used it, in
fact I've never heard it used outside this community.
If some sighted people do use it, I wonder if it's more us specific?
This would also explain why muhammed hadn't heard it before either.
Btw, on the super powers issue, quite often it's not super powers so much
as a different way of doing things.
I've had a lot of comments about my musical memory, sinse I only need to
hear a tenor line two or three times in order to learn it, and some people
have been really amazed by that, however I find the very idea of reading
music alien.
Even though I understand what printed music looks like and understand the
mechanics, bars, names of notes, intervals ornaments etc, I am not
thinking any of those things whilst learning music, ---- I'm just
synaesthesically perceiving (actually seeing and feeling), the notes, and
reproducing them.
To me, the idea of translating a set of symbols on paper into music seems
just as incredible as my ability to remember a complex tenor part at only
a couple of repetitions often seems to other people.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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