Liz Jones Of The Daily Mail Is Deaf
October 7, 2011
Did you know that, readers? I didn’t! Thanks for the info @SocietyGuardian.
- Liz Jones. The Mail columnist who famously wrote about her annoyance at not being able to get vaccinations at a moment’s notice at her local NHS clinic (where she wasn’t registered), has now written about about her deafness. Despite being disabled, she complains I get absolutely no perks at all. Journalist Charlie Swinbourne has written an excellent response to Jones’ piece, including an open letter to the columnist:
You said: “Shall I tell you why deafness gets no truck, no special treatment, no politeness? It’s because it is seen as the disease of the old.”
Liz, for the first time in nearly this whole column, I agree with you. There’s very few positive deaf role models out there, and we could really do with a Harry Potter style character who wears hearing aids rather than glasses, to make deafness cool in some way for the first time like, ever.
We could also do with better researched articles that don’t make deaf life out to be harder than it really is. We want other people to help us sometimes, but we also need to help ourselves.
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