HI, I am a new member and was surprised and appalled to hear that you had
personal comments made to you off list. I am dismayed that amoungst a group
of people , who presumably are devoted to embracing diversity, rather than
value judging it could be so intolerant of difference. Welcome back. Sarah.
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From: "Michael Peckitt" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 1:44 PM
Subject: Rejoining the list
> To all
>
>
> I have only recently rejoined the list after a long absence, so I thought
I
> would re-introduce myself. I am a philosophy postgraduate at the
University
> of Hull, England and a lot of my work is done on Philosophy of the Body.
I
> use philosophical perspectives such as phenomenology, to describe the
> experience of being disabled. I have cerebral palsy and I mostly
> concentrate on physical disability - indeed my BA dissertation was on the
> disabled person's experience of pain. I am currently doing a MA.
>
> I'm sorry but I have to say why I left the list in the first place. The
> politcal may indeed be personal (I never agreed with that platitude) but
the
> personal attacks were getting a bit too pesonal. I lost faith in the
> disability movement because of the feelings of some, I stress the some, of
> its members - I would get off list messages telling me in less polite
> language to get off the list. Being accused of being against the
> disablility movement simply because I did not agree chapter and vere with
> the social model hurt.
>
> Anyway, I'm sure we've all had this, I'm not God's only lonley man with
this
> experience, and look forward to more fruitful discussion.
>
> Thank you for your time
>
> Michael Gillan Peckitt BA
>
>
>
>
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