I’m Gonna Fucking Learn Sign Language Dammit!
The other day, I was watching Joe (this guy I'm dating) looking at some videos online and I was soo fascinated. Finally, booked mark the website and decided to have a taste of the entire website. I come to find that I have taken wayyy too many things for granted.
I was reading some of the comments that were posted on the website and one of the folks had made the comment that deaf folks should stick to dating with deaf and not deviate from their circle. Wasn't that kind of ignorant of him to say that? Granted, I'm not deaf myself, but for some reason to hear him make that comment made me kind of sad myself. =(
Maybe I'm just a pussy and have such a fragile heart and maybe it's because I'm dating a deaf guy and I didn't want to hear someone say something rude and ignorant regarding to a deaf person dating a hearing person or a hearing person dating a deaf person. I know it is now 2007 and thousands and thousands of years have passed and there have been people in this world that have dated interracially, dated outside of their norms, and go against what they're parents do and say.
Maybe sometimes it is easier to date within our culture and race, but did anyone considered sometimes it may not be easier? What if it's actually worse than what it could have been the other way? But what's the true message? How will you ever know if you will like something if you have never tried it? Now now, I'm not saying if you're not gay, give it a try. There are boundaries. But what it comes down to is keeping an open heart and accepting people for who they are and live and learn from everyone. If you feel interested in someone or something, join them/it and learn from them/it. It's just going to make you a better person and add another perspective to your world and their world.
That's not such a bad thing now, is it? *(^_^)V
Here's that website that I couldn't take my eyes off.
I was reading some of the comments that were posted on the website and one of the folks had made the comment that deaf folks should stick to dating with deaf and not deviate from their circle. Wasn't that kind of ignorant of him to say that? Granted, I'm not deaf myself, but for some reason to hear him make that comment made me kind of sad myself. =(
Maybe I'm just a pussy and have such a fragile heart and maybe it's because I'm dating a deaf guy and I didn't want to hear someone say something rude and ignorant regarding to a deaf person dating a hearing person or a hearing person dating a deaf person. I know it is now 2007 and thousands and thousands of years have passed and there have been people in this world that have dated interracially, dated outside of their norms, and go against what they're parents do and say.
Maybe sometimes it is easier to date within our culture and race, but did anyone considered sometimes it may not be easier? What if it's actually worse than what it could have been the other way? But what's the true message? How will you ever know if you will like something if you have never tried it? Now now, I'm not saying if you're not gay, give it a try. There are boundaries. But what it comes down to is keeping an open heart and accepting people for who they are and live and learn from everyone. If you feel interested in someone or something, join them/it and learn from them/it. It's just going to make you a better person and add another perspective to your world and their world.
That's not such a bad thing now, is it? *(^_^)V
Here's that website that I couldn't take my eyes off.