Seth Meyers takes a moment to address some of the errors from this week of Late Night, like gesturing in the wrong direction, before coming to terms with the fact that he may never say “Eureka!” in his life.
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ReplyAs a person who was born with hearing loss, I don’t like the “hard of hearing” phrase. I personally prefer to call myself “hearing impaired”, because my hearing is, well, impaired. It’s not just a bit of “difficultly”, it’s an impairment. A decrease in function or ability. “Hard of hearing” is an old person who stood too close to the speakers at the Metallica concerts. I have a developmental neurological condition that has impaired my ability to receive and process sound, without the help of an assistive device. Secondly, “deaf or hard of hearing” puts everyone with hearing impairment into the same group, when I know from personal experience that there is a very real distinction between the two. I am not deaf enough for the Deaf community, but still require hearing aids in order to function in society.
All that to say there is no one consensus among people with hearing loss as to what we should be called, and correcting someone’s use of one particular phrase is not always going to be representative of everyone in the group. Especially when Seth had the best of intentions. We should be focused on people who deliberately use hurtful or demeaning terms in order to mock or vilify, not well-meaning people who are at least trying to make an effort to use inclusive language.
ReplySeth should know he loses graphics when he says the word jack lol
ReplyI think my recent fav episode of corrections was the one where you kept dropping the anvil-pillow
Replybdsm stands for Big D Seth Meyers
Reply“Stolen” and “stollen” are pronounced the same.
Replylol the bear is not a woman, it’s a female bear.
ReplyI’m (unhappily) fat, and I laughed at the “Breaking Fat” joke
ReplyI mean my favourite episodes are the ones where Seth is drunk and laughing at his own jokes so much he can’t make them. Thanks again for a highlight of my week!
ReplyYou are Infinitely better than James Corden
ReplyPlease consider the episode where you’re wearing the ‘Cicada/Cicada’ hat. Just so that’s the headshot the Emmys use.
ReplyYes. We are happy now. Thanks for bringing back the cards that tell us your workstation has been sanitized.
ReplyI think Seth did this on purpose, but he mispronounced Archimedes, just for the record. I think that was a bit of trolling on his part, and if so I would say well played, Seth!
ReplyAudiences customarily improve dialogue in quotation
ReplyCORRECTION: Whomever said that “hearing impaired” is an outdated term can get over themselves, because I have auditory processing disorder which can be described as “hearing dyslexia” where sounds get scrambled. I am not deaf, or hard of hearing in the sense most people would use or interpret those terms to mean. I am hearing impaired, with a recognition and comprehension disability, and to say otherwise is semantic ignorance. Keep using the term, Seth, it’s fine.
ReplyCORRECTIONS is my fav. series of videos on youtube
ReplyHaha haha female bear!
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