Tuesday, April 14, 2009

What Do You Really Think of Marlee Matlin's Alleged Abuses?

From reading the US weekly magazine last weekend on Actress Marlee Matlin's alleged (real shocking) abuses from sexual molestation by her 16 years old female babysitter to the heavy-handed treatment by respectable actor William Hurt.

Last week's US magazine edition revealed more about MM's enduring abuses than in the CNN interview.

Marlee Matlin is well-known for her gay-friendly friendship with numerous deaf gay guys which she personally attended one known deaf gay marriage pretty long time ago (before the gay marriage became fashionable). Matlin also have close friendship with deaf gay guys.

That seems very shocking about Marlee dealt with sexual molestation from her female babysitter as the fact of MM's close friendship with deaf gay guys. Marlee also dealt with the inapporiate relationship with the high school teacher. Matlin had no resentments toward deaf gay guys. Evidently, Marlee felt connected with deaf gay guys due to her personal experience with sexual molestation.

Actress Marlee Matlin really gave the superb performance as Sarah in the 1986's "Children of the Lesser God" in despite of scathing responses from the deaf community. Her performance and actor William Hurt's performance in the "Children of the Lesser God" revealed true afflictions of their relationship later in real life.

No questions about William Hurt being patronized toward Marlee Matlin as some kind of little girl. Hurt was known for using the sign language communication with MM, but he had somewhat a tendency of being an audistic.

The real surprise about Marlee Matlin's past recreational drug uses which never strike me as a person for the drug abuse. Same thing with actor William Hurt for his drug use and alcohol abuses.

I personally never like actor William Hurt as a person, not because of his affiliation with Marlee Matlin. Something off (vibes) about Hurt himself. I always enjoy William Hurt's film performances.

Marlee Matlin made a brilliant timing of her new autobiography book, "I Will Scream" which she always want to spill the beans about alleged abuses from actor William Hurt.

In the 1980s, actor William Hurt was a big-time Hollywood star with box-office clouts from "Body Heat" to "Altered States". No questions about Marlee's affection for William Hurt as a fellow thespian which Hurt done many memorable film performances.

Ought to read Marlee Matlin's new book this week and share my thoughts with all of you, Deafread blog readers.

ASLize yours

Monday, April 13, 2009

Open Letter to AFA from RLMDEAF

 Here is an open letter to the Audism Free America - 

  I personally urge you, the Audism Free America (AFA) to send in the certified mail with return signature as soon as possible. That is only the way for the Alexander Graham Bell Association of the Deaf (AGBell) from claiming that they never receive any kind of formal request from you, the AFA. 

  How true about email correspondences being legally recognized as standard piece of communicaton in many judicial circles, but some people manuever deniability in very effective way.  Certified mail with return signature is most economical and reliable proof for legal claim. The AFA have to state the date of expected response, too. That will make the AGBell pretty hard to avoid any legal manuever. 

  Please seek the pro bono legal advisor specialized in organizational issue which will be very helpful for the AFA. 

  The AGBell somewhat violated the terroritial law of District of Columbia and federal laws for not providing the copy of computer disk while denied you, the Audism Free America any options for videorecording for record purpose. 

  Why in the world, the AFA being prohibited of having the meeting to be recorded thru independent means without any editing modes from the AGBell?

  The Audism Free America had a historic meeting with the Alexander Graham Bell Association of the Deaf out of courtesy for open dialogue concerned the issues of educational options for deaf babies and youngsters. No video or visual recording, ex. photos are pretty troubling for this kind of dialogue. 

  Please email me at rlmdeaf@hotmail.com for more private advices from Robert Mason. 

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

Friday, April 10, 2009

Wonder Whether Hearing Pass-Bystanders and Drivers Understand "Audism"

After viewing two "Audism Free America" rally videos provided by the AFA website. The hard questions about whether hearing pass-bystanders and drivers really understood the word - "Audism" without getting any fact sheets from demonstrators explaining more what it really meant.

Ironically, the month of April is to be the Month of Autism Awareness. That could be to our own advantages, too.

The Audism Free America and other deaf organizations needs to recruit the "test audience" like plucking hearing people from the street and ask them question(s) about any wordings on the rally poster and get the feedback how to improve and maximize the real impact on hearing pass-bystanders and drivers. So we could effectively educate the hearing society at large about what and why "audism" is a big concern, etc.

The Anti-Globalization demonstrators at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank and other kind of demonstrators effectively put the street theatres and life-large puppets on the street and caught the media's attention to the issue of the dangers of globalization.

We probably ought to put some words below AUDISM in very simple wordings without overwhelming the hearing pass-bystanders and drivers. We have to remmy that those hearing people just had less than a minute of glancing at the AFA rally posters.

For years, the Japanese automakers successfully marketed their small cars to individuals all over the world. Why??? The Japanese automakers always LISTENED and sat with various auto drivers in the rear seat and questions the drivers what the Japanese automakers could improve and satisfy the would-be customers and future drivers.

The American automakers were pretty arrogant and impulsive by making misassumptions about what the American customers wanted. Look at the high stockpiles of unsold American cars like the gas-guzzling Humvee and other kinds of cars across America! The American automakers hardly bother to sit down and listen to what the customer would benefit from real improvements.

Being a culturally deaf myself, I completely understand the word of "AUDISM". We have to be in the shoes of clueless hearing people about the meaning of "AUDISM" and make them care about our issue.

We also have to educate the media people, too and make them being the agent of change, too.

Many companies and entertainment industry especially film studios often recruit the test audience for marketing purpose and feedback. The film studios often change the endings of given film if the test audience strongly feel that the ending was too depressing or confused. In the end, the film studios successfully had the box office hits as opposite to the major flops.

I am NOT saying that the AFA rally last April 3rd to be any kind of flop or disaster. I praise the AFA people and demonstrators for their hard works. We need to win the minds and hearts of hearing people within the society at large to turn against the Alexander Graham Bell Association of the Deaf (AGBell).

I meant to write "AUDISM, AUDISM, AUDISM WHAT???" article for major publications to educate the general public what "audism" really meant before the AFA rally, but I never did. I will do it anyway real soon.

EXCELLENT WORK, AFA PEOPLE AND DEMONSTRATORS AND DEAFREAD VIEWERS/READERS FOR RAISING THE AWARENESS ABOUT EVILS OF AUDISM!!

Aslize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Vallahian.Com's Misconstruction of "Reverse Audism"

Eric Gjerdingen aka Vallahian.com really misconstructed or misinterpreted the meaning of "reverse audism".

Many of us, deaf people already know what "audism" meant or understand the concept of "audism".

The general definition of "audism" are about hearing people keeping deaf people in its place like denying opportunity to us, deaf people from reaching out to the full capacity of our cultural and linguistic uses. Or either the meaning of audism for hearing people having such prejudiced or discriminatory viewpoints of deaf people as human beings.

The correct interpretation of "reverse audism" would be about deaf people deny or demote hearing people to the fairness of society like denying them the admission to the deaf club because of their hearing status. Or deaf person in authority position bypass qualified hearing individual over unqualified deaf individual for given employment /volunteer position. It is properly defined as "reverse audism".

Any deaf people apply prejudice or belittlement or scorn or ridicule other deaf people based on their signing abilities would be characterized as "horizontal or vertical oppression", not "reverse audism".

That's what Patricia Raswant of her blog and others used to discuss about the so-called horiztional and vertical oppression toward particular deaf group during the Unity for Gallaudet protest.

Some deaf individuals recalled their school days of being ridiculed and mocked for their non-signing abilities seen as the typical schoolyard bullying tactics. That was nothing to do with "reverse audism".

The educational system of the deaf vigorously ought to root out the schoolyard bullying toward deaf students by other deaf students.

The society at large slowly increasingly realize the existence of "reverse racism" by any ethnic or racial minority group like black people technically deny or dismiss the white people to the employment opportunity or kind of legitimate complaint within workplace situation or law enforcement issue.

Eric Gjerdingen ought to issue the formal apology to the Audism Free America for his misconstruction and misinterpretation of "reverse audism".

The Audism Free America (AFA) grassroot activist group never engaged in any kind of reverse audism against hearing people as part of systematic revenge or payback. The AFA simply confront the Alexander Graham Bell Association of the Deaf (AGBell) for past and present attitude mode and tactics of undermining the existence of cultural and linguistic uses among deaf people in educational area and popular entertainment and other means.

Did you see the AFA holding up signs saying "Down with Hearing People!"? Nope!!!!

More and more deaf people begin to stand up and remind the society at large about the unacceptable norms of systematic prejudices and discrimination against deaf people in general.

That is what the Audism Free America try to do lately. The Alexander Graham Bell Association of the Deaf often use pathetic excuses like pointing out to the parental choices for preferred communication modes for any parents' deaf babies and youngsters. This very same organization usually imposes the unworkable ideology upon emotionally vulnerable parents of deaf babies and youngsters from exploring all kinds of options of best availability of educational needs for deaf kids in general.

The AGBell Association ever done the audistic behavior by writing to the Pespi Cola and NBC-TV network and other associations over endless years by questioning their decision to feature the beauty of American Sign Language (ASL).

Why the AGBell want to intervene the model of free market among American corporations, ex. Pespi Cola and NBC-TV network for its own free-willed decisions of showcasing the true diversity of American society?

Have the National Association of the Deaf send up any written objections to any company or entertainment medium that they should not show any oral communication methods used by deaf? Don't think so!

The Audism Free America made very pragmatic and logical demands to battle the evils of audism to the Alexander Graham Bell Association of the Deaf. Nothing extreme or reverse audism about the AFA's demands and actions.

The eye-popping facts about the AGBell's membership ratio largely consisted of medical professionals by 67% percentage to 9% of deaf people in its membership. The AGBell finally elected the deaf person to the leadership position last two summers ago.

The Audism Free America conducted very dignified and responsible demonstration in front of the AGBell's Volta Bureau building and educated the society at large about saying NO, NO, NO to AUDism!

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

Friday, April 3, 2009

Y Could Do Something Today!

If any of you, deaf people not able to attend either of the Audism Free America rallies across America. You, deaf people really could DO SOMETHING TODAY like creating your own blue ribbon on t-shirt or from your Christmas wrapping ribbons or on the poster paper or print LARGE BLUE RIBBON with the fact sheet about EXISTENCE OF AUDISM AGAINST DEAF PEOPLE in support of the AUDISM FREE AMERICA (AFA).

Here are several examples -

( BLUE RIBBON) AUDISM FREE AMERICA, APRIL 3rd

AUDISM (AUDIO + ISM) IS AN EQUIVALENT TO RACISM, SEXISM AND LOOKISM WHICH CREATE PREJUDICE /SYSTEMATIC DISCRIMINATION AND ATTITUDE INDIFFERENCE AGAINST CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC MINORITY - DEAF PEOPLE. AUDISM OFTEN INVOLVES LOOKING DOWN ON DEAF PEOPLE AND THINK THAT ABILITY TO HEAR IS SOMETHING SUPERIORITY AND NOT RATIONALLY ACCEPT THE TRUER HUMAN DIVERSITY.

TODAY IS APRIL 3rd ACROSS AMERICA IN SUPPORT OF "AUDISM FREE AMERICA" NATIONWIDE RALLY, PLEASE DECLARE YOUR PERSONAL SUPPORT AND ACTION IN JOINING DEAF AMERICA TO DENOUNCE THE EXISTENCE OF AUDISM AND SEE DEAF PEOPLE AS FULLY EQUAL MEMBERS OF SOCIETY OF LARGE WITHOUT SOCIETAL PITY AND LOW EXPECTATION. WE MUST NOT DENY TRUE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY TO DEAF PEOPLE WITHOUT SUPPRESSING THE RIGHT TO USE AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION MODES.

DEAF BABIES AND CHILDREN NOWADAYS OFTEN DEPRIVE OF THEIR OWN LANGUAGE AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT DUE TO UNWORKABLE IDEOLOGY AND BELIEFS FROM THE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF (AGBELL).

MANY SOCIOLOGICAL AND LINGUISTIC RESEARCH FINDINGS SUPPORT THE NECESSITY OF SIGN LANGUAGE USES FOR DEAF CHILDREN TO BE FULLY EDUCATED AND BECOME A PRODUCTIVE AND MEANINGFUL CITIZEN OF EVERY SOCIETY.

EVERY OF US, HUMAN BEINGS HAVE OUR OWN DIFFERENCES AND ABILITIES TO ADJUST AND LEAD THE LIFE AS WE SEE AND FEEL FIT TO. "ONE COOKIE CUTTER" OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS WILL BE NOT LIKELY WORKING AT ALL. THAT'S WHAT MAKES OUR HUMANITY TO BE UNIQUELY SPECIAL.

END AUDISM EVERYWHERE IN AMERICA -
SUPPORT OF AUDISM-FREE AMERICA, APRIL 3rd!

Aslize yours,
Robert L. Mason
RLMDEAF Blog

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

FLASH NEWS - AGB SURRENDERED AND SIGNED FORMAL APOLOGY

FLASH NEWS FROM THE VOLTA BUREAU - ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF KNOWN AS AGBell RECENTLY SURRENDER TO THE AUDSIM FREE AMERICA AND SIGNED THE FORMAL APOLOGY FOR PAST ACTIONS TOWARD DEAF PEOPLE AND ISSUE BILLION DOLLARS RESTITUTION TO PAUL KIEL AND OTHER FORMER ORAL DEAF STUDENTS. MORE BILLION DOLLARS AWARDS THAN THE VACTIAN GIVE OUT $$$.

PLEASE CHECK OUT WWW.AGBELL.ORG THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CONSIDERED ABOUT TAKING OVER THE AGBell SINCE THE ASSOCIATION ADMITTEDLY MISUSED FEDERAL FUNDS FOR PAST OUTREACH PROGRAMS OF COERCING THOUSANDTHS OF PARENTS OF DEAF BABIES AND YOUNGSTERS INTO FRANKSTEINIZING PARENTS' OWN OFFSPRING.

PRESIDENT OBAMA ALSO INSTRUCTED SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON STOP TO PROMOTE THE EARLY HEARING DETECTION INTERVENTION (EDHI) PROGRAMS TO OTHER COUNTRIES IN NAME OF HEARING SUPERIORITY (AUDISM). CLINTON SHRUGGED HER SHOULDERS TO OBAMA'S PRO-SIGNING DEAF STANCES AND DETERMINED TO SOLVE HEARING PROBLEMS FOR HER HUBBY, BILL CLINTON NO MATTER WHAT THE DEAF AMERICA SAYS.

ACTOR ASTOR KUTCHER AND OTHER HOLLYWOOD POWERFUL ONES EVER PULLED THE LAST-MINUTE PROTEST IN SUPPORT OF OUR AUDSIM FREE AMERICA. ACTOR GEORGE CLOONEY QUOTED "AUDISM AGAINST DEAF PEOPLE HAVE NO PLACE IN AMERICA! ANY AUDISTIC BEHAVIORS REALLY PUT OUR GREAT COUNTRY TO REAL SHAME!"

CLOONEY AND OTHER HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS ARE RACING AGAINST TIME TO PRODUCE THE TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DEAF BILINGUAL COALITION AND AUDISM FREE AMERICA FOR THIS FRIDAY'S UFG NETWORK BROADCAST THIS SATURDAY, APRIL 4TH.

DR. BARRY HOOCKEM ALSO AWARDED "PARENT OF THE YEAR" FOR QUOTING "OVER MY DEAD BODY". HE ORIGINALLY MEANT "OVER MY DEAF BODY" AND ADMITTED TYPOS ON HIS BLOG POSTING IN DESPITE OF HIS EXPERIENCE WITH MEDIA HANDLING.

MISHA ZENA RECENTLY ADMITTED THAT SHE WAS OVERTAKEN SPIRITUALLY BY ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL WHICH LED TO HER FLOUNDERING POSITIONS ON DEAF ISSUES.

AMY COHEN EFRON SECRETLY REPRESENT "HANDS AND VOICE" ORGANIZATION AS A DELEGATE TO THE EDHI CONFERENCE.

ALL THE ENCLOSED INFORMATION ARE PURELY FOR YOUR OWN ENTERTAINMENT, NOT ANY FACTUAL NEWS VALUE. COMPRENDO ?? HAPPY APRIL FOOL DAY 2009!

ORALLY YOURS,
ROBERTO MANSON (LOVE CHILD OF CHARLES MANSON, HELTER SKELTER)
RLMHEARING BLOG

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Our Own DeafCorps??

I thought about the creation of "DeafCorp", an offspring of the AmeriCorps all-volunteer program with paid staff pretty long time ago during the "Unity for Gallaudet" protest.

Why not we mobilize for the share of the AmeriCorps financial pie to help deaf people within our own communities?

The U.S. Congress recently passed the bill to expand the AmeriCorps program -

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090331/ap_on_go_co/national_service

We could do many productive and long-term benefit things for our own deaf communities through the subsidiary program of the AmeriCorps. What about sending volunteers to keep the
South Dakota School for the Deaf all open with qualified in-training college students and retired deaf volunteers - former educators, etc.

Yes, Deaf America is in the real emergency of crises right now.

ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog