Blacksheep:
Brother of the Hawk is NOT being offensive. My father (Brother of the Hawk) knows more about deaf culture than you clearly do.
Do you know deaf people? Do you know ASL? Have you even studied about deaf culture???? If you have and you know everything about deaf people then please try to explain to me, someone who has been a sign language interpreter for 10 years, who works with deaf people everyday, who has to live in two different cultures in order to facilitate communication for two different cultures so there is no misunderstanding....Please explain to me how he is being offensive since clearly you know more than I do.
Let me try to educate you on deaf culture. With deaf people they don't understand "beating around the bushes" type of communication. With deaf people everything is blunt and in your face, because it is a visual language. Everything has to be clear the first time you say. For example.
If you are wearing an ugly shirt, a deaf person will tell you it is ugly to your face and tell you it should be thrown away.
I have had deaf people tell me personally, you are too fat, you are gaining to much weight, you don't look good in that shirt. All of these people are people I hardly know. There was one other interpreter I was working with when we were interpreting for this deaf person and the deaf person asked if the other interpreter was pregnant, and the interpreter say no, the deaf person then proceeded to say to the other interpreter, oh you need to lose some weight then, you look like you are pregnant.
So please since you are the expert here Blacksheep on deaf culture and clearly know more about it then I do. Please educate me because clearly I don't know ANYTHING about deaf people and their culture.....
[edited to add] And the deaf culture I'm referring to is American Deaf Culture.