All The Young Dudes

The Human Fertilisation And Embrology Bill
All The Young Dudes As I was writing the last post in the Human Fertilisation And Embryology Bill, I realised eradicating deaf people would have far greater consequences than most people realise. It would be in the interests of the Cochlear Industries, and hearing aid manufacturers, and other firms specialising in assistive listening technologies to get their fat arses behind [...]
Audism Tech Fri, May 16 2008 · 12 hours ago hide this blog

Oh Lord! Praise Be They That Drag Their Knuckles…..
All The Young Dudes Oh Lord! Praise Be They That Drag Their Knuckles and Lag Their Brains. For theirs is the nadir of human progression. Exactly what I thought when I read the latest media report on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, Couples Could Win Right To Select Deaf Baby, by Richard Gray, The Telegraph's Science Correspondent, but more [...]
Audism Fri, May 16 2008 · 12 hours ago hide this blog

Cultral Barriers or Disunity?
All The Young Dudes People often remark on the disunity exhibited by Deaf and deaf people, but at the same time, remain blind to the reasons for this. Anonymous Deaf Law Student brings up this issue in their post Cultural Barriers? The blog post also touches on networking in the hearing world, which is of particular interest, due to the [...]
Audism Culture Fri, May 16 2008 · 16 hours ago hide this blog

Deaf Awareness Week: People Of The Lie
All The Young Dudes I've always hated Deaf Awareness Week. It was never about who we are as people, but who we are as “sufferers” of an affliction, a medical condition, a problem, an impairment, a disability, for which some medicos and deaf awareness raisers come up with such dehumanisating terms as neurologically devastated, implanted, or users of sign [...]
Audism Culture Sat, May 10 2008 · hide this blog

SATIRE: Don’t Cry For Me Deaf Society
All The Young Dudes Here's just one more for the road. You all know the musical EVITA, and the song Don't Cry For Me Argentina. I give you, Don't Cry For Me Deaf Society. This is really easy, you'll think it's not Let me try to explain how I feel That I still need your love After all that I've embezzled You won't believe [...]
Audism Art and Storytelling Culture Fri, May 09 2008 · hide this blog

Celebrating Neurological Devastation Week
All The Young Dudes In honour of RNID's erudite campaign to celebrate their astute awareness program, World Without Sound, The Dude has worked his fingers to the bone to ensure that he can contribute to the campaign. Much thanks to GOD, and Joe losing his cool, for bringing this neglected campaign to my attention. For the first time ever, in [...]
Audism Culture Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

SATIRE: 2 Songs - FUNDRAISING MACHINE & GIMME, GIMME, GIMME
All The Young Dudes FUNDRAISING MACHINE  [Original lyrics are published at the end of this post] Gold - we put ours in Swiss Banks In account number 8-4-7-3 Ah ha ha - Deafies can be pretty lucrative We pretend that it's fun And don't mind if they work For us cleaning our rubbish So as long as hearies stay at number one Ooh oo oo ooh Fundraising Machine [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

SATIRE: Another Gentle Ribbing [It’s Gentle. Honest!]
All The Young Dudes I work all day I work all nightTo plan my next trip abroadAin't it sadAnd still there never seems to beAnd end to the itineraryThat's too badSo I must plan, my next fundraiserSelling lamingtons, snow and hoseSo I can really fly first classTo the next Deaf conference in the Swiss Alps Money, money, moneyIs really lovelyRipping [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Mon, May 05 2008 · hide this blog

SATIRE: A Gentle Ribbing [Seriously]
All The Young Dudes I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my hearing genome from its slab began to rise And suddenly to my surprise It cocked its ear It tried to hear the test tubes smash Straining its ears, It was a laboratorial smash It cocked its [...]
Mon, May 05 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: Deaf Read [Myths? What Myths?]
All The Young Dudes Some people just cannot accept the DeafRead offshoot, DeafSide. They will use any rationale, regardless of how assinine and ridiculous they sound, to shore up their objections. Many bloggers who fail to understand how the internet, Cyberspace, works. For them, the internet and Cyberspace are an extension of the physical world, to which you can apply [...]
Tech Culture Fri, May 02 2008 · hide this blog

The Idol-Maker: David Lodge - Deaf Sentence
All The Young Dudes I have heard of the writer David Lodge, but I have not read and of his books. Yet! I do have a second hand copy of A David Lodge Trilogy: Changing Places - Small World - Nice Work, but it remains unread. G.O.D. is always waxing lyrical about David Lodge, but for some reason I [...]
Media Art and Storytelling Fri, May 02 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: DeafSide [Much Ado About Nothing!]
All The Young Dudes I still fail to see what some people are objecting to about DeafSide. The latest post, Segregation and the deaf blogging community, by Dyniece, trawls the assumption that DeafSide is an exercise in discrimination. I hate to break it to you, but DeafSide is an aggregator that aggregates a specific group of blogs/ bloggers. What [...]
Culture Sun, Apr 27 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: DeafRead New Offshoot, DeafSide
All The Young Dudes New ventures in the Deaf sphere, online or elsewhere, are always exciting developments to watch. Especially those initiated by Deaf people themselves. Because, they represent a progression in Deaf Culture and Deaf people, rarely matched by the self serving organisations that purport to serve Deaf people. Done well, initiatives by Deaf people, go along way to [...]
Media Language Tech Culture Sat, Apr 26 2008 · hide this blog

PRESS RELEASE: The Oral Tour Starring The Implantees
All The Young Dudes Oral Productions are proud to announce the forthcoming tour by The Implantee's. Famous for their recitals, Speaking in D Minor, Mozart's Moonlight Speech, and Listening To The Birds Singing, they are about to embark on a world tour where they will demonstrate their oral and aural prowess, by reciting the alphabet and selected words from the [...]
Culture Thu, Apr 24 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: Sweet Nothings In My Ear: Critiquing The...
All The Young Dudes Unlike you lucky Northern Hemispherians or Hemispherans. [I'm an oral success, I can make up new English words. Respect me please!], I have not seen the movie SWEET NOTHINGS IN MY EAR. Nor am I concerned with the depiction of of deafness and the CI in TV and Film. Though, Allison Kaftan in her piece, [...]
Media Language Art and Storytelling Tech Culture Tue, Apr 22 2008 · hide this blog

ASSASSINATING ALISON BRYAN - The Foaming Jaws Of The Poison...
All The Young Dudes I was just ruminating on my previous post, ASSASSINATING ALISON BRYAN - The Foaming Jaws Of The Poison People: The Prequel, after writing, DEFINITION: Poison Person/ People.The memories of Deaf UK [even though it seems like so long ago, since I've participated in email lists and forums, preferring blogs and blogging] are still vivid. The [...]
Language Culture Sun, Apr 20 2008 · hide this blog

ASSASSINATING ALISON BRYAN - The Foaming Jaws Of The Poison...
All The Young Dudes In its day, Deaf UK was the best email list I've been a member of. It began life as a social contact list on e-groups, in the days before it became a yahoo group. The ease of posting sharing news, gossip and events made Deaf UK a popular list, and as a consequence its membership [...]
Tech Sun, Apr 20 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: Comment and Analysis [Article Re-Print]
All The Young Dudes The political and media response to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, has provided the inspiration for some very good writing, thought and analysis by Deaf people and their Hearing colleagues. The Stop Eugenics site is replete with articles and links, of which the following editorial Disability Now Coverage by Disability Now, blew me [...]
Tech Legal Culture Mon, Apr 14 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: The Certainty Principle
All The Young Dudes Americans have the Grand Canyon. The British have the Lake District and the Yorkshire Moors. Australia has the Blue Mountains, where we lose unsuspecting tourists [implantees, oralies, and their friends] and leave them to their fate. Wandering, dazed and confused, amidst the wilderness teeming with Bunyips, red backs, funnelwebs, wombats, dingoes, taipans, red bellied...
Media Tech Legal Culture Mon, Apr 14 2008 · hide this blog

ANALYSIS: The HFEB & Clause 14(4)(9) Media Feeding and...
All The Young Dudes While the recent flurry of feedback towards the HFEB and Clause 14(4)(9), there have been some interesting articles, and some continuing moments of ignorance, but, given time to ponder the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Bill and mull over the ramifications of Clause 14(4)(9), the media is throwing up some more considered responses, of which the [...]
Legal Culture Mon, Apr 07 2008 · hide this blog

On Being Open Minded
All The Young Dudes I may have touched on a raw nerve when I posted some comments to Rachel's post Open-minded Deaf Person’s Views, on her blog Cochlear Implant Online, because the last comment I posted has been deleted.[?] Let me state at the outset. I don't harbour Rachel any ill feelings, or bear her any ill will. I [...]
Sun, Apr 06 2008 · hide this blog

What Was That Miracle? Hearing? Sorry! Say That Again!
All The Young Dudes Hearing, is that aural sense, that is so beloved by millions, and is considered to be such a precious gift that all should be grateful to receive it. YET, it is a gift that is taken for granted, used with abandoned disregard, as if it always was there and will always be there. Hearing people [...]
Education Tech Culture Mon, Mar 31 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: So You Think You Can Judge?
All The Young Dudes Like Aussies, Deafies are everywhere. Aussies are everywhere in American Prime Time TV. Now if only Deafies were as prominent in everybody's lounge rooms, we wouldn't have to waste precious moments of our lives discussing, debating, and reiterating, what we already know. Deafies rule! The others are struggling to catch up. For those who like their [...]
Media Mon, Mar 31 2008 · hide this blog

LYRICS: DEAFIES THEY SCARE……
All The Young Dudes They're gonna clean up your genes Passing the HFEB Just to try and nomalise you Because they seethe in their sleep And keep an eye on you kids To stop your hands saying the things you do The implants are not enough They always wear that smirk Cause they got methods of making you hear They're gonna rip off your hands, Your aspirations to shred Another [...]
Audism Art and Storytelling Legal Culture Sun, Mar 30 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: What Hearies Do Vs What Deafies Do
All The Young Dudes The following article, When A Baby Is Destined To Die [article quoted below], was brought to my attention by a fellow member of the STOP EUGENICS campaign. Thanx Joe! The article is about a Catholic couple who found out that their baby would not live for long. But as part of their faith, they decide to [...]
Culture Wed, Mar 26 2008 · hide this blog

ANALYSIS: The HFEB & Clause 14(4)(9) Media Feeding and...
All The Young Dudes Admittedly, the feedback frenzy elicited by the medias sensationalism of The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, hasn't been all that bad. As we have seen in a number of my previous posts, and elsewhere in blog and forum land, there are some glimmers of insight and knowledge filtering through. Another of Radio 4,The Right To Be [...]
Media Education Tech Culture Tue, Mar 18 2008 · hide this blog

ANALYSIS: The HFEB & Clause 14(4)(9) Media Feeding and...
All The Young Dudes It's hard not to repeat oneself, but the many of the responses are so cliched and one dimensional, raising more questions than they answer. Then again, some of the responses found in the following post, Is Being Deaf Or Blind A Disability?, are quite heartening. Perhaps the world is not so jaundiced? Such as the following [...]
Media Audism Tech Legal Culture Mon, Mar 17 2008 · hide this blog

A Message From G.O.D: Homophobia at See Hear, Or Just Bad...
All The Young Dudes Of course G.O.D. being G.O.D. has been busy doing what G.O.D. does best: educating and rooting out all evil. And G.O.D. being G.O.D. works mysteriously behind the scenes. At night. When I'm asleep. In bed. Far away. In dreamland. Just when you thought that, I, The Devil, is all bad. Some of the other GOD's [no [...]
Media Language Audism Tech Legal Culture Mon, Mar 17 2008 · hide this blog

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill: A Message From...
All The Young Dudes G.O.D. has been busy dispensing some sane words, read: clarifying what the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, is actually about. Rather than paraphrase G.O.D., I thought I would give you her words verbatim. Actually no-one is choosing that an embryo should be deaf or not. The embryo is *already* deaf, but the government is trying to pass [...]
Mon, Mar 17 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: Monster, Monstah!
All The Young Dudes Notice how Finkelstein rhymes with Frankenstein! Just thought I would point that out. Bye For Now!
Mon, Mar 17 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: It’s Irony, Isn’t It?
All The Young Dudes G.O.D continues to scour the internet collecting all references to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. I in turn, eagerlys ocur them for nuggets of wisdom, Freudian Slips, or ironical statements as the case may be. Such as the following quote lifted from, Should Deaf Parents Be Able To Choose Deaf Children?: “Why deliberately cause damage to [...]
Media Audism Tech Legal Culture Sat, Mar 15 2008 · hide this blog

I Know What Denial Means. Do They?
All The Young Dudes Rachel posted a story about DENIAL, What does denial truly mean? in her latest blog post. The story is not hers, but from a friend, that she decided to share, because the circumstance surrounding the case, are indeed sad. I agree. It is a sad story, and the family has a lot to answer for. [...]
Language Audism Education Tech Legal Culture Sat, Mar 15 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: Tidish Boom!
All The Young Dudes The following interview, BBC Radio 5 Live’s The Victoria Derbyshire Show,the transcript which was once again provided by Jen Dodds and her network, is a really good one. Well worth reading. You know, as one dimensional as the reportage has been, there are nuggets of pure gold, that heartens a Deafie. The following quote, a Freudian [...]
Media Tech Legal Culture Fri, Mar 14 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: Stupid Questions Hearies Ask
All The Young Dudes The media interest in the Human Embryo and Fertilisation Bill continues unabated, and thanks, thanks, thanks, and thanks again, to Jen Dodds and her network, we are getting transcripts that the hearies fail to provide. SHAME ON THOSE SELFISH HEARING PEOPLE. I was reading the latest of the transcriptions posted at STOP EUGENICS, Transcript: Scottish [...]
Media Tech Legal Culture Fri, Mar 14 2008 · hide this blog

Transcript: Out In The Middle Of Whoop, Whoop’s World...
All The Young Dudes Tonight, Out In The Middle Of Whoop, Whoop’s, broadcast touched on the subject of genetics and what this campaign has been about. It featured Dr. Ima-Hearing Expert. A full transcript is below, and a massive thank you to Blonde Bombshell for transcribing this. To the Eevryone else: shame on yourselves, your a multi million, billion, gazillion, [...]
Language Audism Tech Legal Culture Fri, Mar 14 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: Wanting Child To Be Deaf Is Daft - Says A...
All The Young Dudes Three things you need to know, before I venture into the latest mainstream media stupidity about the Human Embryo and Fertilisation Bill. The Sun is a UK trashpaper. Something you use to wrap your fish and chips in, and eat out of, when you park your bum on a bench, high up on a headland, watching [...]
Media Tech Legal Culture Thu, Mar 13 2008 · hide this blog

ANALYSIS: The HFEB & Clause 14(4)(9) Media Feeding and...
All The Young Dudes Unlike the first media feeding, and talk back, frenzy surrounding the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, and Clause 14 (4) (9), Not quite with the Times,Sunday Times article & my communication with the Sunday Times, Media Watch: Hearing People Still Don’t Get It!, and Media Watch: Hearing People Still Don’t Get It! Part Two, that [...]
Media Tech Legal Culture Thu, Mar 13 2008 · hide this blog

HUMOUR: If Deafies Were Targetted By Spam
All The Young Dudes I am in dire need of a laugh kind readers, after being subjected to a cacophony of knuckles draggers and brain laggers expressing themselves, with so few sane voices to break the tedium. I was checking the spam folder in my gmail account, and it hit me. What if spam was specifically targetted at deafies, [...]
Tech Wed, Mar 12 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: A Cacophonous Din of Ignorance & A Sane Voice...
All The Young Dudes This is an updated list of linx pointing to discussions and opinion pieces about the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, and Clause 14 (4) (9). Once again, thanx to G.O.D. [nee Alison Bryan] for her tireless work. They are provided for your delectation, and hope that you are inspired to respond to some of the more insidious [...]
Media Tech Legal Culture Tue, Mar 11 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: A Sane Voice Amidst a Cacophony of Ignorance
All The Young Dudes Amidst the din of ignorance responding to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, and Clause 14 (4) (9), there is a rather pleasant surprise. A sane voices that speaks with clarity, precision and understanding, that even many deafies, could do well to emulate. The voice belongs to the one, Dominic Lawson, a columnist from the [...]
Audism Tech Legal Culture Mon, Mar 10 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: Hearing People Still Don’t Get It! Or Do They?...
All The Young Dudes In between the knuckle dragging in 10, 000 BC, and the brain lagging in 2008, hearing people underwent a rapid development in all areas of art, love and philosophy. Evidence of this creative and progressive expression can be found all over the internet. Shakespeare's progeny continue to churn out literature that defiles the intelligence of the [...]
Language Audism Culture Mon, Mar 10 2008 · hide this blog

MEDIA WATCH: Hearing People Still Don’t Get It! Or Do They?
All The Young Dudes In the UK, the campaign against Clause 14 (4) (9), in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, continues unabated. The Guardian, which I like and have found it to be one of the UK's more progressive broadsheets, has published This Couple Want A Deaf Child. Should We Try To Stop Them?, and less reactionary than [...]
Media Language Audism Education Legal Culture Sun, Mar 09 2008 · hide this blog

Identity and Belonging
All The Young Dudes It's the weekend, and I don't feel like doing a deep analysis, but I do want to respond to the following tidbits that I found on Deafologue. 1. Are CI Deaf Who Do Not Use ASL Part Of Deaf Culture? I use hearing aids, I have useful residual hearing, and I speak. I also sign - Auslan/ [...]
Culture Sun, Mar 09 2008 · hide this blog

SURVEY, SURVEYS, Sir Vays? Oh Vey! The Economics of...
All The Young Dudes Even though I have had a hand in devising one, Tales Of The Deafhood - Deaf Communities: Deaf Gays and Lesbians [Links to Important Survey], I hate them. For all the best intentions, the questions are often framed too narrowly, to do justice to subject being researched. Or if they try to cover all bases, [...]
Culture Fri, Mar 07 2008 · hide this blog

The Oralist’s Melodrama: Episode Six
All The Young Dudes I want to finish off this current series of The Oralist's Melodrama, by regaling you with a spleen venting stoush, that occurred on a Leadership Training Program, run by the Adult Deaf Society of NSW, Australia, all the way back in 1989 [I think]. I was working for the Australian Taxation Office, and I was [...]
Language Culture Wed, Mar 05 2008 · hide this blog

The Oralist’s Melodrama: Episode FIve
All The Young Dudes To answer Mike McConnell's post, More cochlear implant bloggers needed in DeafRead?, no we don't need more implant bloggers on DeafRead. What we need are more bloggers who actually understand what they are writing about, and not using unadulterated opinion to give backhanders to the Deaf Community using free speech as an excuse. Since Mike prides [...]
Audism Tech Culture Wed, Mar 05 2008 · hide this blog

The Oralist’s Melodrama: Episode Four _ Two Times, Two...
All The Young Dudes Like I said in the previous post, I was having the time of my life, and exploring my deafness and Deaf identity. Having  a positive Deaf identity was a big thing, still is, and one that I wholeheartedly embrace. It was in the latter years of my involvement, that I became ambivalent about the fact [...]
Language Culture Wed, Mar 05 2008 · hide this blog

The Oralist’s Melodrama: Episode Three - A Bedtime Story
All The Young Dudes Trawling [as opposed to slumming] through the various stories, commentaries, and postings, about the use of artificial aids, replete with amens and hallelujahs, sanctifying this precious gift, does make for some interesting reading. Not so much the actual history of the various technologies, but the views, and the language used to present those views. More [...]
Higher Education Language Education Culture Tue, Mar 04 2008 · hide this blog

The Oralist’s Melodrama: Episode Two
All The Young Dudes The cochlear implant has improved the quality of many deaf people's lives, that's wonderful. Really. But some of the comments I received in response to my previous post, The Oralist's Melodrama: Episode One, about Rachels' blog post, How much better is the acceptance today?, don't address some of the other issues I raise. If, as you [...]
Language Audism Tech Culture Sun, Mar 02 2008 · hide this blog

The Oralists Melodrama: Episode One
All The Young Dudes The more I read about people's experiences with the cochlear implant, and the the resistance and fear they meet from the Deaf community, the more I wonder about a great unanswered question. I know what the Deaf community is striving for, but what the hell is the deaf community striving for? It's a question I [...]
Audism Tech Culture Sun, Mar 02 2008 · hide this blog