Because if you haven't heard me rant about dDeaf people enough, I actually read the article. The comparison to eye glasses is made here. Now first of all I would note that glasses rarely contain any purely decorative features like they're suggesting here, but that's a minor detail.
One of the other
replies on the Twitter thread made this exact same point, which is that hearing aids marketed as fashion accessories would actually make more deaf people able to afford them.
Leaving aside the fact that the left-wing idiot just made the argument that
capitalism drives prices down (
b... based?), I doubt she truly realises what she's arguing for.
Because in a world where hearing aids are normalised to the same extent as glasses, it wouldn't just be Deaf™ people who are wearing them, especially if companies are selling them for less and need to make that up in volume.
In the real world, where people wear glasses as pure fashion accessories without any real need for them - either as sunglasses or as hipster frames with no lenses - glasses have long since ceased to serve the function of a Disability Mark of Honour.
And in the world these people are advocating for, the same thing would happen with hearing aids that look like steampunk robot parts or whatever. If these somehow became a must-wear item, those same people would REEEEE all day and night about hearing people appropriating their disability for a fashion accessory. They don't know what they want.
Also:
Where does Twitter keep finding these people?
