Disability - Nancy Mairs
"Take it from me, physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease. In most ways I'm just like every other woman of my age, nationality, and socioeconomic background. I menstruate, so I have to buy tampons. I worry about smoker's breath, so I buy mouthwash. I smear my wrinkling skin with lotions. I put bleach in the washer so my family's undies won't be dingy. I drive a car, talk on the telephone, get runs in my pantyhose, eat pizza. In most ways, that is, I'm the advertiser's dream: Ms. Great American Consumer. And yet the advertisers, who determine nowadays who will get represented publicly and who will not, deny the existence of me and my kind absolutely."
My Response:
I love this paragraph, because she's standing up for the fact she has a disability! She's saying to the world exactly what happens to her and people around that are also disabled. She's not afraid to say what's on her mind, because she's right for one thing, and we as a people have a freedom to speak freely. She's saying all kinds of things she does that shows she's really no different. The same goes for African Americans. Just because they're of a different color, they're different? NO! They are the same as any white, red, black, or brown person. I think this paragraph is what most people don't get to see from the other side of things. I feel differently and I think a lot of people who might see this, do too. And if they don't, then they should.
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