AN UNHEALTHY OBSESSION.
Nah, don't worry. It's not a bad thing!
Hello, I'm Rogan and welcome.
I'm sure you were a little thrown by the title, wondering what's up, what's an unhealthy obsession?
I feel like I want to have a direct, frank discussion about the obsession with what?
The "I LOVE YOU" sign.
I've talked about this before with some of my friends, and they agree on this.
We don't understand why.
When I went to Europe, I was taken aback. Like... What?
This sign, [ILY], is EVERYWHERE. Everywhere. I mean, everywhere...in the world.
Hearing people, usually non-signers, are obsessed with this sign for some reason. I don't understand.
If you understand, please explain it to me. I...
If you go to a Deaf* event, it is GUARANTEED that it will have something with an [ILY] on it.
Guaranteed.
It even might have some booths that have nothing BUT the [ILY] products.
This is SO bad, I've seen Deaf* comic artists make fun of this.
They tease about if you see a booth that's ALL [ILY] everywhere, they're hearing.
Why? Because they're obsessed with the [ILY], everything has the [ILY].
Deaf* people are like, okay fine, we do use this, but we don't use it as much as other people do.
It doesn't make sense.
The biggest thing that I don't understand about the obsession with this...
Other countries have adopted this, used this sign as a way of saying the same thing in their country.
Even though it doesn't work with their language.
Let me explain for those who don't know sign.
The [ILY] sign is from what? I, L, Y, is short for I Love You. I, L, Y, I,L,Y,ILY [ILY].
So... ILY, [I love you], works with English, yes.
Let's look at Spanish for an example.
Spanish for "I love you" is "Te amo." T and a. There's no i, l, or y.
So... [ILY] obviously doesn't work in their language, but they still adopted it for use.
That's fine, sure because it's sign. It doesn't have to follow spoken language.
But... I honestly do not understand why people are stuck on using that for "representing" the Deaf* community.
I don't want to have a shirt with I LOVE YOU on it....
Because I don't love everyone, I'm sorry but I don't.
I don't want to be screaming "I LOVE YOU ALL" when I don't.
There are certain people that are really... Difficult to love.
I'm not going to say names, but I think you can guess one big...person that I would really not have the ability to even...like.
ANYWAY. That's off the point.
I don't want to have a product that screams "I LOVE YOU" to every person who looks at it. I'm... No.
Why can't our clothes be representative of other signs? Other...art related to the Deaf* community?
And not always obsessed with fingerspelling or [ILY].
I feel like that's all of the Deaf* products. [ILY] and ABCs. That's it.
Or something that uses the ABCs to fingerspell the name of a person, or whatever.
I'm complaining about not having any other products, and before you comment ahhh!
Yes, we do have them. But they're extremely limited.
I do have one. I will show you it right now.
Ta-daaa!
[tiger]
This one is mostly to do with RIT Tigers.
But. This is one of the few ASL products that DON'T follow the ABCs or [ILY].
So... What are your thoughts on this? What do you think? Is this...overkill?
Or are you just as obsessed with this as other people are?
I'm NOT saying that it's a bad thing to be obsessed with this, I just want to understand...why??
What are your reasons for obsessing over this?
That's all for today's ASL Ponderings. It wasn't really an in-depth thinking ASL like my other videos.
BUT I promise I will have other videos that are more in depth about ASL and such.
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