November 6, 2016 - 20:09
While reading "Designing Deaf Babies and the Question of Disability" I found close connections between many of Bauman's words and some of the topics brought up in "Train Go Sorry." In Bauman's piece, the author speaks a lot about how hearing children that have deaf parents are not able to fully participate in Deaf culture. This immediately made me think of Leah Cohen's experience as a hearing child surrounded by Deaf culture during her childhood at Lexington. Despite her hearing abilities, in her heart, Cohen aligned more closely with Deaf culture, yet always felt like an outsider as she was not able to fully assimilate. Cohen's allure towards Deaf culture stands as evidence of Deaf culture's legitimacy as an equal counterpart to "normal" culture, which is a major point that Bauman talks about. Furthermore, I thought Bauman nailed his argument and truly showed the complexity of Deaf culture and, more importantly, how prejudice the typical, uninformed hearing person is towards the deaf community as a whole. It is crazy that people just automatically assume that if you are deaf your life is somehow worse off.
On a totally unrelated note, this past Saturday the men's lacrosse team volunteered at the Special Olympics that were held at Villanova. It was great to get out and support all the athletes.