Jim Henderson wrote:
> Hey, everyone's entitled to an opinion.  But I'll give those who are 
> actually handicapped taking something like the premise behind this film a 
> bit more credence when they stand out and say that the premise of the 
> film is flawed because it makes the *assumption* (and therein lies the 
> problem) that all people who are handicapped *want* to be "made whole" 
> and feel inferior to fully-abled people.
> 
> The message that is being received by some in that community is "if 
> you're handicapped, you're not a whole person" - and if I were 
> handicapped, I'd find that suggestion offensive as well.
> 
> Jim

My point though is, that may be the "percieved" message to some people, 
not what is at all intended. As with Warps example of the deaf kid, you 
can get people who just flat out can't see past their own position on a 
matter, and presume that there is a message that isn't there. Mind, I 
still haven't seen it yet, so can't say for sure, but neither have the 
people **making** the claim. As such I am highly skeptical that this is 
an accurate portrayal of what the film intends, never mind does, 
suggest, except in the minds of someone over sensitive of the issue. It 
sounds too much like the ridiculous gibberish you got from the barely 
recognizable adaption of "The Golden Compass", by just about everyone 
with some sort of imaginary chip on their shoulder, none of whom had 
read the book, and all of whom thought they could pronounce about the 
content of a movie that wasn't even showing in theaters yet, based on 
what they *imagined* the book said, sight unseen.

In other words, I have seen, and too often now expect, reactionary 
behavior, not clear arguments, from people that have no way of knowing, 
since they couldn't have possibly seen anything suggesting what they 
claim, and refuse to see the movie, so don't know what it actually does 
say/suggest. People do irrational things when they *think* something is 
attacking something they care about, and they will often do so in the 
complete absence of information. And, unfortunately, some people make 
the "disabled community", and their particular hangups on some things, 
almost religious in intensity and reactionary behavior.

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