You would be surprised at how many chicks wish/claim they were Deaf. If she can hear... then the chick sounds crazy. She ain't culturally Deaf. My one year old son is hearing and his first language is definitely ASL... so I would consider him to be well-versed with Deaf culture but he'll never be culturally Deaf because of the simple fact that he can hear. There is a name for people like him and that is CODA, (children of Deaf adults). Personally, I think CODAs are the most amazing people in the world for the most part. The way they can effortlessly jump in and out of the hearing/Deaf worlds. She sounds real culturally-friendly.
I happen to agree with her on the cochlear implant. 100%. I am vehemently opposed to cochlear implants.
hmm.. last time i got in this argument i got brained by a hot but incredibly crazy bitch, but here goes:
the cochlear implant lets deaf people hear, i should think that would be a good thing. they are no more a plot to steal your deafness than glasses are a scheme to rob blind people of their blindness.
my gam gam was blind, and i assure you if some guy in a lab coat offered her a chance to see by installing some electronic eyes she whould have jumped at the chance. if some other blind person called her a sellout for getting the ocular implants he would be a dick, and if he wasnt blind, i would punch him in the nose. if he used some of the language i've seen about people with cochlears, i'd flip out the lights (just to be fair) and fuck him up.
thats just my opinion on the matter, feel free to flame away now, but i doubt youll be satisfied. last time i had this argument i finished off with "How do you know im shouting? Remember? YOURE DEAF!" just before she hit me with a baseball bat.
and i still feel the same way. and she was ALMOST as hot as she was crazy. almost.