Chris

Three things also:

1) Maybe saying I'm hard of hearing will get people to be less frustrated with me when I ask them to speak up... no, keep speaking up... jesus fuck, stop speaking up for one line and then immediately reverting to mumbly!  Nrr.

2) I love DVDs because for most of them, I can turn on the closed captioning feature, so I can catch what people are saying without having to turn the TV up loud enough to bother others.

3) I worry I won't get good care or sympathy or whatever because I've likely damaged my hearing my ownself.  My response: so?  Still have a problem, still should get it fixed.

4) Hey, there's a free hearing test place nearby, perhaps I should go to it today.

It's links o'clock again.

* The Just World Theory: "According to the hypothesis, people have a strong desire or need to believe that the world is an orderly, predictable, and just place, where people get what they deserve."

* brownfemipower writes on domestic violence in movies: "What would happen if we decided that there were no 'winners' (those who do the culturally acceptable thing and do what we all hope *we* would do in a similar situation) or 'losers' (those who still love the person who is abusing them, or chose to stay for whatever reason, or are killed before they can escape)-just people who have the right to live and love and grow and change?"

* Shauna writes on learned helplessness and political apathy.  As I'm squarely in the camp of largely depressedly apathetic, this post hit me hard, and I plan to let this sit in the mental crockpot for a while.

* In an LJ thread, hotcoffeems makes an awesome statement: "I get irked by this notion that there is a tiny amount of compassion available to us as humans, and therefore it must only be meted out in tiny dribbles to those some tiny-minded individual arbitrarily decides is "deserving enough." I don't care if someone "made their bed", they shouldn't be abandoned to it when things go horribly south."

* In a post about mix-and-match minorities, Katie comments on something interesting – being part of the LGBTI community and being deaf.  And now I want to go be That Person who transcribes YouTube posts.  Goodness.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.