tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840389743507575564.post7466452087474771142..comments2024-01-10T23:40:16.200-05:00Comments on Finding My Way: Journey of an Uppity Intellectual Activist Crip: The American Girl Doll WheelchairCherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10665407473272299474noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840389743507575564.post-90535999918219464842009-08-22T15:21:27.373-04:002009-08-22T15:21:27.373-04:00Dude! How are you doing? You should blog more and ...Dude! How are you doing? You should blog more and I'll totally promote you. Oh, btw I moved in June & guess what? Michellene lives here! I think it might have been blue when it came out, but that's about it. <br /><br />I was thinking it really depends on the purpose for buying it for the chair using girl. If she were in a car accident and was a new paraplegic, or maybe a bsaketball/track star, yes a sportier chair would be MUCH better.<br /><br />However 10 years ago I had my most major surgery and some people pitched in and sent a vermont teddy bear in a hospital gown w/a bandage on its leg. They even mailed it half way across the country to the hospital. I LOVED that bear. I still have it @ my parents' house somewhere.<br /><br />There is something to be said for being authentic. I think the first thing I said was "Where's the other one?" I'd had surgery on BOTH legs. Missing a bandage... The people who got it for me wouldn't have known that it would have been even more special had they called & asked for 2 bandages.<br /><br />My point? I think it's perfectly acceptable for THAT girl. What alarms me is the comments from the parents of able bodied girls.Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10665407473272299474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840389743507575564.post-52202062074618449712009-08-22T14:48:49.213-04:002009-08-22T14:48:49.213-04:00Hey Cheryl! As an OT/PT in training I love the ava...Hey Cheryl! As an OT/PT in training I love the availability of this wheel chair, I almost half remember talking to you about it when we were in high school. <br /><br />Like Laurel said it is very "medical" but at the same time I see it as a step forward, although its mostly the same in the decade or so its been out.<br /><br />I think this is a better alternative than the lack of.Sunyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795414635675293254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840389743507575564.post-61010578296610809802009-08-22T14:23:57.050-04:002009-08-22T14:23:57.050-04:00that's what I want to know... thanks for delur...that's what I want to know... thanks for delurking & welcome!Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10665407473272299474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840389743507575564.post-75237070566228841502009-08-22T14:20:25.701-04:002009-08-22T14:20:25.701-04:00Were I the parent of a child in a chair, I wouldn&...Were I the parent of a child in a chair, I wouldn't purchase this item--not because I would want to deny my child a representative toy, but because this isn't representative. This hospital-style chair directly represents the medical model. <br /><br />Yes, it's great that there are dolls with their own wheelchairs. It isn't great that they're sitting in something that people automatically associate with being "sick". Now, if we can get a doll issued with a Quickie or Ti or Eagle, I'd be first in line.<br /><br />Mind you, Barbie did beat them there with the Paralympic Becky. And yes, that raises a host of other issues--we're not all athletes, and it's not all glamor for those of us who are. But the image it promotes isn't the poor-sick-helpless-child, either. So why aren't we there yet? Why are we still accepting perceptions fostered by the medical model of disability?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14801468803489696862noreply@blogger.com