This is, of course, absolutely awful and thuggish behavior (forgive my
American spelling, even with a daughter studying in the UK) under any
circumstances. It is nearly impossible to be empathetic to the
perpetrators and no one's responsibility to do so.
I would still note, though, that addiction is one of those several
states of being that have characteristics of an impairment and have and
continue to pose vexing complications for disability law (at least here
in the States) and for disability studies and disability rights. Among
other things, my book-in-progress makes reference to another such group,
sex offenders, whose conduct is, of course, unacceptable under any
circumstances and who are certainly not a bunch one wants to claim or
recruit in building a coalition for disability rights or anything other
cause.
At the same time, there is reason to believe that such people have an
embodied and permanent state that leads to their behavior. I would
argue that that condition mustn't (of course) and needn't lead to that
behavior and there are lessons in disability studies that might help
address states of being (even the word "condition" has become loaded in
these parts lately) that can lead to atrocious behavior.
I'm writing about this now and have been working on this portion of the
book for a long time, because it's so incredibly difficult, but my
premise is that the desire for this sort of violent (overwhelmingly
male) aggression is likely distributed far more evenly across cultures
than is the behavior itself -- there are many far less (sexually)
violent societies than the US -- and that disability studies can help to
find sociocultural solutions or at least enhance our understanding of
the problem. This in no way mandate that DS recruit potential scholars
among thugs.
By the way, if this seems a strange subject to be pursued by someone in
my fields, it started with a point in Jewish law that concerns music and
is intended to shield men from the seductive power of women's singing.
That statute is of only historical interest among any but Orthodox Jews,
but the historical interest is great for me. In any case, now that
Madonna lives in the UK (and I've heard she's taken on a fake British
accent), the greatest danger of seductive women's voices seems to have
crossed the ocean for now.
Colin Revell wrote:
> ........." I have forget to mention that I also have had my nose
> broken 3 times by thugs as a vulnerable neurodiverse disabled
> person"......."One of the problems with being an ASPIE and having
> 'neurodiverse' impairments is that I and others with these impairments
> have great difficulties with social communication and reading
> 'body-language' and understanding social-boundaries and cues,
> especially in group situations"....... "I in the past have been in
> situations where I've tried in 'good-faith' to help others and also
> speak-out' out on moral and ethical issues using 'non-violent
> communication', but for doing this I have experienced (have become) a
> 'victim' on numerous occassions, since childhood and throughout my
> lifecourse, so much violence, bullying, harrassment, victimisation and
> abuse and discriminatory 'disablist' attitudes and behaviour by so
> many individuals, professionals, police officers, public-bodies and
> 'the-state' and also these 'public-bodies in my own case who are
> trying to 'criminalise' my neurodiverse behaviour and impairments for
> trying to 'speak-out' and be 'honest' and a law-abiding neurodiverse
> disabled professional citizen as both my mother and father nutured me
> to be so."
>
> Why?
>
> I am just got a book out the library, by acident called:- "IS IT JUST
> ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT?: 'THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN LIFE", by Steve
> Lowe and Alan McArthur....
> http://www.iseverythingshit.co.uk/
> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index2.php/free/culture/books/hilarious_rants_on_the_state_we_re_in
> .......
>
> "It sounds so poigant to me within my experiences in my personal life
> at persent and I bet many more disabled pepole redaing this email
> could attach the label of this book with reference to their own life's
> too in the UK and global world??"
>
> Yours
>
> Colin Revell, "drifting from one to another B&Bs, Guest Houses and
> Hotels still homeless" in the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK
>
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