You really hit it, my dear one, Akua; The superficiality, the set scenes and sequences, the uniformity of light, sound, of character interactions, all preprogrammed, that make it like eating spam.
So sorry for your pain and additional mental burdens caused by this unrelenting superficiality and sanitization of anything having to do with representing difficulties such as what the really paralyzed face moment by moment. Don't you miss real adults? Don't you wish for some actual exchanges between genuine and lived-in personalities? DG Dalton H. Garis Flushing, Queens New York, USA Mobile: 718-838-0437 Landline: 917-285-2047 From: <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 9 January 2012 7:19 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: [TMIC] Push Girls Resent-From: <[email protected]> Resent-Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 04:19:40 -0700 The name alone raised my hackles. I dislike intensely calling women girls -- especially in the media. Thank God newscasters haven't said that as most of the US Gold Medals thus far are from "women athletes". And when I saw the cast, sigh, overly made up, bloom off the rose/hard, and crossed legs One of the "tells" I tell friends about is leg crossing -- as that is a thousand percent more movement than I have. These show make me have to explain again, that, I am truly paralyzed, as in can't move my legs, so no hopping on and off a seat at a restaurant or coach (as a couple of characters do) is possible for me. If I could cross my legs, hop up on one wheel of my wheelchair to reach groceries (as Auti did), or have people at my beck and call to dress me, move my legs or pick me up and put me on the toilet (these are all scenes from the show), chauffeur me around, take me bowling my life would be sublime, never mind the unrelenting pain I endure that's attendant to TM. I keep trying to watch, but something they will say or do, so disgusts, dismays or discourages me -- because I don't have the mildness of injury or the ease of access or the extent of support or the mildness of weather--- It may be an EastCoast/ NY vs West Coast thing, too, there's so much superficiality it's hard to take. (LOL, I'm reminded of the rappers' dispute. I, too, can never understand why people who have warm weather and sunshine, who can pluck fruit from trees in their are nearly year round think they have overcome anything. I've visited Lala land in the 60s, the 80s and the 90s and spent a lot of time in SF in the late 90s) Or that none of what I saw depicted any mutuality of interest -- the musician who doesn't practice, the swimmer who has access to a gym and pool but hasn't swum, no on reads or goes to a library, or makes anything (other than money or whack omelets) Maybe it's the unreality of Reality Shows I just keep hoping no one i know watches it. On Aug 9, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Betty Clark wrote: Just curious... has anybody else caught the new reality show "Push Girls" on the Sundance cable channel? It features 4 paralyzed women in wheelchairs (plus a new 19-yr-old teen) - each with a different severity of injury. They are absolutely amazing with the things they accomplish and the confidence level they've achieved! They are a real inspiration - much like Cody Unser and could possibly be very helpful to others in realizing what can be done, even under adverse conditions. First-run episodes run at 10 pm on Mondays here in the Northwest of the U.S. "Catch-up" episodes run on Sundays starting at 11:30 am. If you haven't seen them yet, google "push girls" and check out the different clips. Betty (in Northern California).
