#disability rights discourse

[petsemataries]

if you misuse alt text or put fake/joke image descriptions on things, on any platform, i need you to die ASAP!!!!!!!

[mar-im-o]

I keep thinking about the ask from yesterday that claimed I was trying to advocate for Scar

Like that's a grown man who can take care of himself. He doesn't need me to advocate for him and I never intend to

I just want people to understand what they're doing when you erase someone's disability. When they make a cool awesome character abled bc it's what feels right. That's abelism. You know that right?

[the-entity-down-the-street]

Just had a conversation with my friend like

"I shop on Amazon, I know it's not very ethical..."

"Fam, it's hard to shop ethically when you have no car, and it's more expensive. If ethical shopping isn't accessible, it's still not ethical."

Like, can we stop shitting on poor, disabled, working class people for using the easiest service we currently have? Not everyone has the ability to shop local or organic. Sure you can thrift, and my friend does, but that still requires transportation. Making a big stink about ethical shopping means nothing if you're not going address the class disparities that make it the more inconvenient option. Jesus.

[dyspunktional-leviathan]

Really dissapointed to learn that you support the theft of art just so you don't have to do any actual work to create anything. AI artists aren't artists. Being an artist means you create something, not ask someone to create something. Your stance hurts so many disabled artists that are barely making ends meet, especially as corporations stop paying artists in favor of Gen AI. Claiming to be supporting a "disability accommodation" while actively campaigning something that's causing real and genuine harm to disabled artists is just.... I'm sorry you've become so selfish that you believe your convenience is more important than others' livelihoods.

Are you. New here. I've been constantly posting in support of AI art for the vast majority of the existence of this blog. The fuck are you being disappointed in.

Really, shut the fuck up. You are the ones harming disabled artists, both those who use AI, obviously, and those who don't when you use us as inspiration porn.

I am not a corporation. I want all corporations to cease to exist. While they have not, I of course support those who fight for better labor conditions. Me supporting individual AI users, especially severely disabled and poor, is not the fucking reason manual artists are getting fucked over by corporations.

Are you also against people getting free drawings from other people, btw? Why, they could have commissioned them for money!1! They are making corporations think artists will work for free for them!

As for what you said about disabled people and disability aids —

By your logic, all disability aids that could instead be paid caregiver work should be that. Why am I trying to get a powerchair when I could pay to some other disabled person struggling to make ends meet but not requiring a mobility aid to push a manual wheelchair that I can't self-propel in around amirite!

And I am not even going to touch the creative effort part because that has already been enough on just today. I still have things to say in that thread if there is further response eventually, but I'm not in the mood to repeat them to you.

[whereserpentswalk]

Made this meme after realizing that four of the most prominent pcs from my motw campaign were physically disabled, and three of those were from in game injuries I gave them. (One started off the game with a facial difference from an encounter with a pyromancer she had as a kid in her backstory. The next one was defended (literally had his ears erased) by a magical axe. Another had her arm cut off in a fight with Jeff the Killer. And another lost their hand in a fight with the bbeg.)

Not wanting disabled people in ttrpgs isn't a desire for realism it's a fear of realism.

[goeticwhorelore]

Controversial Opinion

But not offering holiday pay to part-time employees should be classified as disability discrimination since disabled people can only work part-time 🤷🏻‍♀️

[dragongirluvula]

just found out about the hdg and I definitely don't vibe with it. It almost captures my interest but the hard stance opposition towards exploring the implications that come with a self designated benevolent empire that can solve the inherent problems that come from cultures who are supposedly inferior in some way by nature really like, both rubs me the wrong way and feels like a disservice to the setting itself.

idk just looking at every empire in history it's like, that's literally what they all say and how they justify colonizing others. It's kinda really fucking hard to just take at face value. If imperialist colonizers who just happen to be legimately nicies to the people they colonize is like, ur thing then absolutely jack off to it I'm not here to judge that, just like, own that I guess? But if your argument for them is just that narratively speaking it's just true then my interest in your setting, horny or otherwise just does not exist.

The contradiction of the setting also bothers me, 25-45% of any given species will be domesticated on average but the space between that and rebellion just doesn't seem to be accounted for in the wiki, what is the life of someone not opposed to the empire but also who doesn't volunteer for domestication? How much of their own cultures are retained within the empire? It really seems like the only option for any autonomy in the setting is rebellion but that's also only ever seen as a bad thing.

I just get caught on the whole "affini are imperial" and "affini are benevolent" thing in the axioms section of the hdg wiki. My mixed race ass cannot really look at an invading empire calling itself the good guys without my own personal baggage about it weighing in, ya'feel?

[anomalousmancunt]

"fakeclaiming isn't even a real issue, some of us have deeper issues, like being ignored by doctors" do y'all... realize what fakeclaiming is?

and most importantly, if you have more important issues than "people whining about being fakeclaimed", then by god why are you wasting your precious time fakeclaiming them?

[obligatory-name-change]

keep seeing posts on my dash of people arguing abt whether or not people should be in fandoms if they haven't consumed the source material and it's like. literally why do you caare.

[tenshi-agerasia]

i don't care what minorities you are, you still shouldn't be using slurs in a derogatory context to "prove a point." it's so agitating to see people get heated defending queer rights and then drop the r slur in the same sentence. like are you hearing yourself

[tator---tot]

"Hey [insert marginalized group] you're dumb for thinking you are actually marginalized and oppressed basically at all because of your specific identity, speaking as a [insert other, similarly marginalized, group]. Have you ever stopped and thought about that?"

Have YOU? Have you stopped and thought about that? Have you stopped about how you clearly have no real world problems because how can you possibly have real world problems and also have the energy to have stupid fake problems? Have you ever thought about how stupid infighting is and that it's a tactic of the oppressive class to keep us too busy to actually fight back? Have you thought about how you're attacking your own community because you wanna win the "has it the worst" award which doesn't actually exist? Have you ever thought that maybe you should shut up? Have you??????????????????????????????????????????

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

On one hand, I have very complex feelings about the most recent episode of mismag regarding bodily autonomy, self harm, and the dignity of risk, and I want to write it all out.

On the other hand, I'm not sure I'll be able to actually put my thoughts into words without said words being unclear, and also it is tumblr where you know, we piss on the poor and a lot of people find it difficult to talk about the dignity of risk.

[spacedoutsheepy]

Been wanting to talk about this for a while because it's been bugging me and I know it's probably been mentioned on this site before because we're pro gamers when it comes to bitching about being stigmatized here but

Has anyone else noticed the alarming amount of people (men specifically) fetishizing cluster b, and objectifying us with bpd or bipolar or whatever severe illness it may be? Like even on here I have to scroll through post after post about how hot mentally ill girls are, or how 🔥bpd pussy is, and just because you queer-ify the language, or talk about how you want HER dick doesn't make it any less fetishizing or objectifying.

Everyday mediocre cis white men who watched Scott Pilgrim in middle school and whose only contribution to the world is an epidemic of untouched grass take to social media and post how much they would love a “mentally ill woman to destroy them😍” as if it’s cute and quirky and sexy and taboo. It frustrates me to no end because it's obviously coming from people who have never actually seen mental illness in action. I saw a mutual post once about how everyone loves to support and care about people with mental illness until you actually start manifesting symptoms, and while we're not talking about the same crowd, it's definitely the same cultural attitude.

I have seen it has become a popular trend on tik tok and Instagram for dudes to pretty much obsess over mentally ill women and dumb us down strictly into sexual objects because that’s literally all they see us as. They talk about how we're crazy, and they wanna take care of us and make it all better, while in the next breath when they think we're not listening they talk about how blue-haired mentally ill girls are Bad For You but also fuck the best. It's like they found the perfect minority who they can infantilize and sexualize at the exact same time, and I'll give you a minute to ruminate on the disturbing implications of that.

I just don’t fucking get why being literally at war with our own selves is seen as “sexy” or we’re seen as more “freaky” than your average neurotypical. This type of behavior towards those that suffer has taken away the legitimacy and severity of this type of disorder and others like it.

I have had men, and even some women, say TO MY FACE after warning them about my bpd that they could "handle" or “take care of me” or that they’ve always wanted a girl like me and I have never once taken that as a compliment, It’s just so fucking creepy and disgusting.

[teddy-bear-boi]

he had to deliver his complaints in person to the big man, completely understandable move.

the late pope was really liberal for pope standards and that was pretty cool and the next one will probably be less chill which is going to suck for Catholics so my sympathies for that.

but I think we can all admit that dying during the highest holiday of the Christian calendar after meeting an insufferable fascist catholic convert is such a power move. and a little funny. a guy so insufferable the leader of his church went "no i can't deal with this guy for four years".

[convertgrapeling]

"I am disabled and I need everything to be open 24 hours because of my circadian rhythm." Please stop and listen to yourself. People don't need to be working at 3am because of that. Your needs do not outweigh everyone else's. You can tolerate an imperfect solution to a problem sometimes. Stop demanding other people be exploited for your convenience.