They’re saying “Hey, your handicap isn’t real. Look, I can make it come and go.” They cheapen the respect we give to the handicapped by making the injury ubiquitous.
Wouldn’t you resent anyone that went around pretending to be a war vet or that wrongly tried to collect on disability?
Nice straw. I don’t see any inkling that she’s defrauding anyone, as you try to compare it to. That would be offensive.
Sorry, didn’t mean to make hay.
I’m just saying he/she’s being disingenous with our emotions. It doesn’t have to be financial for it to be offensive.
I recently put an attic fan on a friend’s garage since he’s in a wheelchair. Had I discovered later it was a ploy, I’d have had the right to be upset.
Whatever this person is trying to gain through deception, whether it just be sympathy or something more tangible, it’s wrong. It cheapens the plight and difficulties the legitimately handicapped must endure.
Ol’ Vicky/Ricky is limiting both her options and market.
Anyone with the knowledge of employing expoitive business practices would recommend a pair of sunglasses and a seeing eye dog.
This way you could corner the cross-dressing, the apotemnophila and the bestiality markets with little or no additional overhead.
It seems to me that proclaiming to the world that your “disability” is FAKE (did you notice the page is called “Vicki’s Pretender World”?) is a pretty ineffective way of playing for sympathy. I was under the impression that it’s a fetish, whereunder I’m still confused as to what the problem is.
Exactly. Klaatu, if you had seen this chick’s web page-if you haven’t already-you’d see what we mean. My god, that woman was nuts. She kept repeating over and over and over in all caps:
It was hysterical.
Oh, and I make jokes about being Obsessive Compulsive and Attention Deficit all the time.
I don’t get offended when people make jokes about them.
What pisses me off is when people try to tell me these disorders don’t exist, that they’re all in my head and I’m faking it. THAT pisses me off-not black humor.
Hey, if he wants to dress up as a wheelchair chick in his own home, that’s fine - still fucked up in my book, but who am I to judge?
But he goes out shopping like this. Come on, Matt. Tell me that’s not about attention.
I hope the hell Vicki (and others like her) don’t take up handicapped spaces. That would be lower than low. And I definitely think it’s all about attention. There’s a great interview on NPR’s website with Amy Sedaris (from “Strangers with Candy”) where she tells about a time when she was being photographed for People magazine. She decided to have a make-up artist do her face to look like she’s been beaten up. She was working as a waitress at the time and kept the make-up on for work since she had spent so much on it. She said she really enjoyed the attention and in a weird way felt beautiful. People were looking at her with sympathy and treated her differently than they normally did. Nicer, I guess. Luckily she only did this for a day and went back to normal once her bruises washed off. I imagine people like Vicki are hooked on that feeling of being seen as special or different in some way. I’m sure people treat her much more kindly when she’s in braces than when she’s just walking around normally. It’s very sad to me that she is so in need of attention. She must feel very empty to have to pretend like that.
By the way Klaatu, as an amputee, how do you feel about people with this kind of fetish? Does it creep you out, piss you off, amuse, annoy?
I feel extremely oogy after reading that website.
Also, this guy is channelling Mark McKinney from The Kids In The Hall as the geeky girl with braces. ::Shiver::
He is OBVIOUSLY a man. Come on. What shop clerk is not going to first do a double-take, second, realize he’s a man imitating a woman unconvincingly, and third, wonder if he’s also imitating an amputee? I eagerly await news of an angry mob.
This is not anything against normal cross-dressers of any stripe, by the way. This one guy is a fucking FREAK.
No prob, jar and Guin, and I apologize to you both for my snippish post.
DeskMonkey, I don’t really have an opinion re devotees; I guess I would react with somewhat mild amusement, but whatever floats the boat, so to speak. I have never met anyone with such a fetish.
You say that after reading the website, but I saw a woman at work today who looked more mannish than her. And I seriously doubt that anyone would believe that someone would want to imitate amputees untill after they stuff like that website.
Btw does anyone else find statements like
To be similar to “Some of my best friends are black”?
That’s just low.
Some of my best friends do drag. My ex does drag on occasion.
Grab a clue: I’m gay.
I didn’t say what I wanted the angry mob to do, did I?
I’d like this guy to be exposed, and have to explain his actions to a whole bunch of unsympathetic people. That’s all.
Lets compare the two sentences
“Some of my best friends do drag.”
“Some of my best friends are black”
Wow thats even closer 
The “some of my best friends…” cliche is only antigay if spoken by a hetero guy trying to justify some homophobic comment. But SE is a GAY GUY who has friends who are drag performers. Not even in the same ballpark.
“some of my best friends” is in general a lame justification. You can have friends who do things you don’t like. His being gay actually hurts his justification because he is much more likely to be around people who do drag wether he likes it or not. And drag has very little to do with the person on that website.
Umm… what gobear said.
This is gonna be fun. :rolleyes:
Yeah. And the first one to even bring it up was you.
As you can see, the words used were:
Sounds to me like he doesn’t have a problem with people doing drag. How on earth does your comparison come into play here?