from experience? i had a teacher that had a lazy eye and she could see with it fine. that's not any excuse to be rude of course.......but being insensitive isn't neccesarily a case of disablism. is being insensitive an impairment?
> The reporter is putting his own colored tainted view
> of the physical characteristics onto the story -- and in the first
> paragraph.
>
> By medical standards, they would be. Speech pathologists would be
> called in, and opthomologists consulted. (Not that disability rights
> people would necessarily call that a good thing.)
>
> >is having buck teeth an impairment?
>
> Do the buck teeth prevent one from engaging in a major life activity?
no but neither does a lisp etc. so it depends on what one thinks being disabled is.
> Do they prevent one from eating, for instance? Some might group it
> as a disability if the buck teeth cause discrimination or prejudice.
by that criteria afro americans are disabled. women are disabled.
> Or -- one prong of the ADA defines disability as regarded as having
> an impairment.
>
> So personally,would you take a buck teeth woman out for dinner or to
> the movies?
if i liked her, yeah. but at some point there are inevitable evolutionary factors. would i date a woman that had an arm going through her forehead? it is almost certain that i wouldn't. anything involving sexual selection is a bad example. that would be like accusing a gay man of sexism etc.
~M.E.
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