Re: a little consideration

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Poster: Virtual Valkyries <valkyries@jagunet.com>

Susanna et al,
I'm just making a stab here, but I think that Victor was being facetious in
the vein of Jonathon Swift.  Of course, I could be wrong.....

Victoria Fitzgerald

At 11:32 AM 11/25/96 EST, you wrote:
>
>Poster: "Susan E. Juroff" <ted5sej@titan.vcu.edu>
>
>I reply to the nearby table, whose Victor recently spoke,
>
>> what a period poor person would have probably have done.  And wheelchairs,
>> how can people actually show to events with these.  Any mundanes who saw
>> a person in nice period garb but using a wheelchair would say "Who is 
>> this idiot?".  Don't they have friends who can carry them around in a 
>> litter or something?  Or if they don't, they should stay home (a much 
>> more period practice, I'm sure).  All it takes is a little consideration
>> and thought and you too can be authentic.   
>
>--->I guess that any non-SCAdian seeing a garbed individual in
>a wheelchair would look twice due to the garb.  Why should anyone,
>mundane or not, care whether or why one uses a wheelchair?  Why
>suppose that people outside of the organization would understand
>less than we that certain modern assistance can improve one's
>ability to educate and recreate?  Most of the people I have known
>try to be more sensitive than responding to different ways of
>living with "idiot."  Alas, not all.
>
>					Susanna(
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