tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post406877509198013086..comments2023-07-04T16:57:28.929+01:00Comments on Where's the Benefit?: On Naivety and Renewed HopeLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16714918894319998184noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-40522984613794905572011-03-28T16:52:17.617+01:002011-03-28T16:52:17.617+01:00addendum
Even my NHS doctor was shocked - I save...addendum <br /><br />Even my NHS doctor was shocked - I saved up for 8yrs and paid for the surgery myself to get rid of skin left etc<br /><br />But people i know who had a gastric band on NHS then get 2 plastic surgeries on NHS and are always a burden on the NHS as they seem alot of them unable to remain in control of their weight without this band and as soon as its removed they eat everything in sight which says to me they have never learned a lesson of how to eat and not overeat - and no i dont diet - i eat when hungry and stop when fullAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-38510198383707996332011-03-28T12:45:24.429+01:002011-03-28T12:45:24.429+01:00I have noticed on TV that when they mention the ma...I have noticed on TV that when they mention the march last Saturday they never once have mentioned disability etc as being part of the cuts - Just local councils etc - And that disheartens me as to whether I am not just as doomed as I was before the march as the cuts are only seen as to public services etc and DLA and unfair ESA etc seem to have been forgotton within it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-27948925298154729112011-03-27T10:55:14.276+01:002011-03-27T10:55:14.276+01:00Really enjoyed this. Cheers.Really enjoyed this. Cheers.Carl Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12234405899028346311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-68955638609514832782011-03-26T16:55:09.570+00:002011-03-26T16:55:09.570+00:00>> Disabled villains are self-pitying wretch...>> Disabled villains are self-pitying wretches who frequently exaggerate or even fabricate their impairments in order to manipulate others. <<<br /><br />I think it's important to note that within the (Dickensian) Personal Tragedy Model of Disability, which sadly is the one subscribed to by the vast majority of the public and particularly by the media, villainy is a label used to undermine those who refuse to accept the restrictions imposed on them. If we protest against the childlike-role society demands we adopt then we are dismissed as bitter crips, unable to accept our disability. The reality, of course is that those of us dismissed as bitter are often those most successful at adapting to disability, yet who find ourselves butting up against the strictures society tries to impose on us we when demand that we are treated as true equals.<br /><br />Precisely the same phenomenon of demonisation is visible in historic liberation movements, with Afro-American activists dismissed as 'uppity n*ggers' and Suffragettes subjected to similar derision by those in power -- 'Suffragette' itself was originally a term of abuse coined by, surprise, surprise, the Daily Mail, but reclaimed and made their own by the Suffragette movement. We can look at the government's (both current and previous) and right-wing media's demonisation of disabled benefit claimants as exactly the same phenomenon deployed as a pre-emptive strike to justify their attacks on us.DavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.com