Instead of any of the seven perfect posts
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_k...I've been obsessively contemplating and editing and researching, I must fling this out from Mandolin at Amptoons :
Yes yes yes yes yes! This post (as supplemented by commenter Lexie) succinctly explains why epithets-based-on-impairment* are not just rude, but actively disabling—they create the social conditions that make living with bodily difference difficult.
* E.G., "Iranian ruling classes are deaf to the chants of demonstrators."
ETA Hah! Mandolin's insight was nourished at WisCon!
begin quote It’s not okay to call a coward a pussy, or a bad thing gay, they argue, because there’s nothing bad about having a vagina or being homosexual. But there IS something bad about not being mobile! In fact, it’s no fun at all, just totally miserable. All other things held equal, isn’t it better to be not-lame than lame?
[... snip ...]
But even accepting that impairment to mobility is itself a sucky thing, MAYBE DISABLED PEOPLE DO NOT APPRECIATE BEING THE CULTURAL GO-TO FOR THINGS THAT SUCK. quote ends
Yes yes yes yes yes! This post (as supplemented by commenter Lexie) succinctly explains why epithets-based-on-impairment* are not just rude, but actively disabling—they create the social conditions that make living with bodily difference difficult.
* E.G., "Iranian ruling classes are deaf to the chants of demonstrators."
ETA Hah! Mandolin's insight was nourished at WisCon!
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Date: 2009-06-16 09:38 pm (UTC)(Oh, bemoan the absence of threaded comments-- I had to skim quite a bit to find her comment relating to WisCon. But I was very very happy when I did!!)