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Unfriendly skies

Airlines have been equipping their magnificent flying machines with the most advanced of technologies, televisons included–yet they cannot, or do not want to, caption their in-flight movies.
If they choose to deny the ability for me to enjoy the flight as others, then I should pay LESS.
Hurry the fuck up, federal government, my government, screw them [...]

We ain’t no freak show

Didn’t your mama tell you not to stare at people? Oh we should fucking forgive them when they are mesmerized, and forget to not stare at us when we’re communicating in our beautiful language. It’s ok to look, but fucking stop the staring! Stare any longer or harder, we’ll start charging you for the circus [...]

I drive better than you

I drive better than you. As a driver, I never have been in a car collision in my entire driving career. Get that past your fucking thick head. And get this: my driver’s education textbook said statiscally deaf people have better driving records. Yeah eat this too. Deaf people have been driving (legally) long before [...]

It’s a language, whether you like it or not

I hate it when people think we are automatically stupid because we cannot speak. Foreign language speakers, though they cannot speak English, are treated with more respect, simply because they 1) produce sounds that construe a language 2) have the ability to learn to speak English.
American Sign Language isn’t a language to them because it [...]