You should talk.

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From:   Museum discussion list on behalf of SaraCrewe
Sent:   Sunday, December 15, 1996 9:07 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Handicapped Access

[log in to unmask] wrote:

"The USDA Forest Service has a term that applies to the marjority of
museum
visitors, it is called TAB. Most of us are TABs. TEMPORARILY ABLE
BODIED!!!"

By that kind of thing, almost all of us are TAs....TEMPORARILY ALIVE!!! Do
you realize the discrimination against dead people that exists? It's all
so unfair....

Excuse me, but "temporarily able bodied" is about the stupidest thing I
have ever heard. That makes it sound as if to be upright, ambulatory, and
walking on two feet were some kind of aberration!

It's almost as strange and bizarre as spending thousands and thousands of
dollars on devices that are not just meant to help the handicapped, but to
make them believe they really aren't!!! That is totally weird! What is the
big deal with helping someone who needs help? Even those of us on two legs
need help now and then....what is the problem with having someone give a
hand to person in a wheelchair or who is on crutches?

Some very expensive and misplaced pride is going on here. I'm sorry if
acknowledging REALITY is a problem for you; I have no problem at all with
letting anyone think whatever they want (some ambulatory people think they
are gods, and some wheelchair bound people think they can fly!), but who
is going to pay for the pretense?

Museums are always handicapped, if you will, when it comes to money.
There's never enough....what is the harm in helping someone with a door?
It not only allows money to be used for critical museum needs, but it does
the very good and human task of allowing each one of us to do a good turn
for another - because we will all (hopefully) be the recipient of such a
good deed ourselves at some point.

Sorry for being so un-PC, but who gives a flying f*** for what the US
Forestry Service says? What moron came up with  "TEMPORARILY ABLE
BODIED"?? Only a genuine nitwit could possibly be paid a salary to devise
such ridiculous acronyms....TAB, indeed!!