ablist

As someone who sometimes uses a wheelchair and uses a cane the rest of the time – and who knows plenty of full time chair users – and as someone who has run into this kind of ablist thinking in real life far too often – assuming that because we can't always use our hands/legs/mouths/whatevers we can't be independent – this is deeply, deeply degrading.

Supernatural: The Curious Case of Dean Winchester - Pink Raygun.com 2009

As someone who sometimes uses a wheelchair and uses a cane the rest of the time – and who knows plenty of full time chair users – and as someone who has run into this kind of ablist thinking in real life far too often – assuming that because we can't always use our hands/legs/mouths/whatevers we can't be independent – this is deeply, deeply degrading.

Supernatural: The Curious Case of Dean Winchester - Pink Raygun.com 2009

I can't stand people who start discussing the disposability of human lives - especially since they're leading straight into the worst kind of ablist final solution.

A woman approaches me with a little light DNR, and traumatized squirrels Elizabeth McClung 2008

By the time they were done, they pulled WisCon photos off of Flickr to add to the mess, making fatphobic, transphobic, ablist, racist, and generally misogynist comments about a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are my friends, and all of whom are at least nominally my allies, by virtue of being WisCon attendees who treat others with the modicum of respect required for this Con.

SeeLight: 2008

I do not deny that I have ablist privilege and wrote thoughtlessly without considering the impact my use of these words may have, but I apologize to anyone and everyone for my language, and especially to those who may have been hurt by what I have said, and I shall try to do better at unpacking the implications of privilege I have, etc.

Archive 2010-06-01 Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010

By the time they were done, they pulled WisCon photos off of Flickr to add to the mess, making fatphobic, transphobic, ablist, racist, and generally misogynist comments about a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are my friends, and all of whom are at least nominally my allies, by virtue of being WisCon attendees who treat others with the modicum of respect required for this Con.

Rachel Moss and the Legions of Hiding Assholes 2008

I do not deny that I have ablist privilege and wrote thoughtlessly without considering the impact my use of these words may have, but I apologize to anyone and everyone for my language, and especially to those who may have been hurt by what I have said, and I shall try to do better at unpacking the implications of privilege I have, etc.

Triple Snapshots: YA Faerie Romance Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010

* I was reading this and it struck me that I probably came across as offensive and drowning in ablist privilege.

Archive 2010-06-01 Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010

* I was reading this and it struck me that I probably came across as offensive and drowning in ablist privilege.

Triple Snapshots: YA Faerie Romance Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010

Quite often when I am forced to warn a commenter because the language that they have used is either racist/homphobic/ablist or sexist, I am told that I am intolerant to opposing points of view.

Archive 2009-04-01 Renee 2009