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Cate R
Florence, MA
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Cate commented on the petition |I am a lesbian and I travel on Southwest almost exclusively, taking multiple trips per year for both business and with my family. I would be horrified if my children were exposed to this kind of homophobia on the airline our family always uses, and that we thought was "family friendly" for US. Please apologize to our community and let me be confident that my children won't be exposed to hurtful insults about their family when we travel with you.
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Cate commented on the article |Remember that song in the '70s? I think it was Randy Newman. Everything Causes Cancer. Now it's everything causes autism.
There's a great analysis of how ultimate frisbee team rankings are a better predictor of graduation rates than the SAT. http://www.prweb.com/releases/ultimate/ranking/prweb431459.htm Move over US News!
Correlation does not equal causation. http://xkcd.com/552/ Every undergraduate should learn this in a research methods or stats class (before they go on to edit research journals (!) or cover health issues for a newspaper). Or maybe that only happens at schools where they play a lot of frisbee...
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Cate commented on the article |Kristina, I'm so sorry. I know you saw this coming, but I know it also feels like a punch in the gut. You're right when you note how many times you've walked this road with Charlie, and I know you will find the right place for him. But I'm sorry that this placement, that you worked so hard for, has said no. Your family will be in my thoughts today, and I'll look foward to your insightful thoughts about this search you're embarking upon. I wish it were otherwise, but I'm glad to know that what you experience here will help many others, because you will share it with us, bumps and all.
As I reminded my son recently during a small tough time when he was feeling bad, Ohana means family--nobody gets left behind.
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Cate commented on the article |No, I knew it was a different guy. Perhaps Jerry Lewis is a too strong an example. I'm just saying that the tacticts for fundraising and accessing those in power may sometimes run counter to the goals of the movement itself. It's sort of a basic conundrum of social change movements that seek to make core changes to the power structure (and need funds and access to that power structure to do so). I'm not saying we should endorse Jerry Lewis style pity, just positing a possible alternative explanation for clearly self-contradictory messages and behavior.
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I haven't seen the video, but I just wanted to chime in that I think sometimes the whole "pity" model needs to stay in there because there are a lot of people who are trained to write checks for pity (or fund corporate programs because it makes them feel like they're helping people who need their help). Sometimes, I think some of that Jerry Lewis stuff is just pandering to the people who have the money to make things go. While it's distasteful, I'd rather have their money (or corporate wherewithal) supporting positive programs than ones that, say, focus on vaccine research (or in the case of employment, sheltered workshops exclusively). I can see how one might want to leave that money behind, but then where does the power and the funding go? In the wrong direction.
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Cate commented on the article |I was thinking about this connection today too, though from the other direction, when I saw this Onion-like video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCzbNkyXO50
It talks about gay scientists isolating the Christian gene, but it could easily be autistic scientists isolating the NT gene. It's not their fault--they were born that way.
As a lesbian mom of an AS son, the solidarity is appreciated!
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