Mostly, I’d say that a lot of reality television, despite being born of the human curiosity about how people live in different places and stations of life, deserves its shallow reputation. So much of what it shows is fighting and expensive objects.
It doesn’t really have to be that way, though, as I found catching up on the latest iteration of Queer Eye on streaming recently.(My heart kind of belongs to the original Fab 5, but the 2020s version is growing on me. )
Maybe even more so now that I’ve seen them make over deaf athletic director Denton Mallas. Because of my own disability experience, I hadn’t thought much of special schools or self-contained programs, but if more of us had a culture to connect with as they do at places like Gallaudett and the school Denton works at, maybe it wouldn’t be so wrong. I enjoy my hearing, but I admire some Deaf people’s commitment to their own culture and traditions.
I thought the episode was groundbreaking in its willingness to learn and not
just reflect back prejudices of the dominant culture while still being fun to
watch(Denton is a hottie, for one thing) I enjoyed the Fab 5’s willingness to
learn.And, because I am both behind the times and an ignorant hearing person in many ways, I'm including a response from a deaf blogger from right after the episode dropped here
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