Earlier, I wrote about how I legally qualified as disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act because of my difficulty sleeping and (in the past) because of my shyness. Amazingly, Congress recently broadened the ADA even further in response to whining by “civil-rights” groups that the law didn’t define “disability” broadly enough.
Now, a prominent lawyer has concluded that being male is a disability, too, reports the National Law Journal. “If sleep disorders and sex problems can be used as criteria for filing disability claims, as courts have held, “being male” could also be a legally recognized disability. So claims Louis Solomon, a partner and co-head of the Global Litigation Department at Proskauer Rose, who believes ‘maleness’ is on its way to becoming a new category for disability claims. Men, he argues, have a greater susceptibility to certain diseases, a shorter life expectancy and a testosterone level that predisposes them to more aggressive behavior — all factors that could be classified as a disability.”
There are additional reasons why males may qualify as disabled. Statutory amendments to the ADA now define impairment of bodily functions as a disability per se. But men go deaf faster than women, and generally have inferior senses of smell. My wife smokes, and I don’t. But she has still has a vastly greater sense of smell than I do. And my baby daughter can smell things I don’t even notice. It sounds like I’m disabled on that basis, too.
Moreover, even before the ADA was amended, in Adams v. Rice, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a woman was legally disabled because she was reluctant to enter into sexual relationships because of breast cancer treatment that impaired her self-image. If finding it hard to have sex makes you disabled, then that’s an additional ground for classifying maleness as a disability, since even an unimpressive-looking woman can apparently find a sexual partner just by going down to the nearest bar, which apparently is not true for many similarly-situated man.
If disability is defined this broadly, then something is seriously wrong with the law. But Congress only wants to make matters worse.
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It is interesting to see how different organizations distinguish what a disability is and what a disability is not. Make sure you do some research before you jump to any conclusions.
Dam straight sex is a job for women. Especially when in most cases men are selfish and soooo inadequate to the job of giving pleasure to a woman. Ask any man and most will tell you that marriage is a 'quid pro quo' arrangement. If he marries a woman than he feels entitled to have sex whenever he wants it wheter he makes it enjoyable for her or NOT! Therefore, sex SHOULD be classified as a job with it's own description and paid for well. And sadly for a lot of women this is the only 'saleable' skill they have. I think having to listen to men whine about invisible injustices should also be classified as a 'job' and paid handsomely. It's been my experience that men moan and whine like big girls about things like this until THEY have a chance to reap the benefits of the thing they are bitchin' about. Who's UR bitch today?
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“If disability is defined this broadly, then something is seriously wrong with the law.”
Either that, or Congress is trying to fix the ADA the only way they know how: by getting EVERYONE included, at which point it becomes meaningless. They are getting pretty close now…
So… everyone in this country is disabled. That would explain some stuff…