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How about we vote in a law that puts a cap on how long a government shut down can happen… say 20 days… before the president has to agree to a budget solution or else the 21st day congress begins the process of impreachment because civilian jobs and salaries and livelihoods are not a bargaining tool for the president to abuse is order to get their way
If you aren’t serving the people then you aren’t doing the job of the presidency and you need to be replaced
Last day to post this gem
"Is ableism an actual thing?"
Yes.
Many of you don’t seem to believe that it exists so here are a few statistics and please keep in mind this is a very short list and doesn’t get into anything even as “trivial” as representation in the media or as specific as how high these numbers go when you include intersections of race and sexuality and anything besides binary gender
Being disabled in public was illegal in the United States until the mid-1970s (x)
Segregation of the disabled still exists; from designated parking spaces to refusal of hiring disabled people in visible jobs to denial of basic education (x)
Disabled people are still legally allowed to be paid slave wages, as little as $0.22 an hour (x)
To receive disability benefits, which can be around $700 a month, a United States resident can be required to not have any savings, to own any property, to never inherit money or property, to never have more than $2,000 in their checking account, to never work for anything above the aforementioned slave wages, as well as many other restrictions (x)
Disabled people, even simply the seeing or hearing impaired, often have their children taken away from them by social services for no reason (x)
Disabled women are twice as likely to victims of domestic violence as abled women (x)
Disabled women are less likely to seek help for their abuse, and oftentimes the little help the receive is not appropriate (x)
Disabled women are more likely to experience abuse over a longer period of time and suffer more severe injuries as a result (x)
Reports of sexual violence against disabled women range between 51% and 79% (x)
Forced sterilization was legal in the United States until 2014 and was most often performed on the disabled and/or women of color (x)
85% of disabled women have experienced domestic violence (x)
80% of women with intellectual disabilities have been sexually assaulted, and 50% of those women had been assaulted more than 10 times. (x)
Half of the people murdered by police officers are disabled (x)
Family members of disabled individuals are not only legally allowed to “put down” their disabled family member but they are often praised in the community and media as heroes for it (x)
EDIT: Another great example of ableism: the fact that most of the comments on this post are about how it’s ridiculous I included handicap parking under an example of segregation
So let me explain once again,
That was an example of how segregation can range from understandable to the inhumane
Not to say that things like segregated parking doesn’t have its disadvantages. Disabled people are very often violently and sexually accosted in the spaces because would be abusers know exactly where to find us and can very discreetly follow us or force themselves into our cars. I don’t know that anyone’s done statistics on it but I also don’t know if anyone who is disabled who hasn’t been assaulted in handicap parking.
These spaces are also huge issues of contempt able-bodied people have against the disabled. You are probably more familiar with the story of Rosa Parks being asked to leave her seat because a more privileged (white) person wanted her seat and therefore she was expected to give it to them. This is how segregation works. Handicap parking is often used by able-bodied people and although this is illegal, when a disabled person notifies security they are often met with hostility and the chances of it ending up in assault either by the security themselves or the able-bodied person who parked goes up exponentially so it’s often not an option to do anything but quietly leave.
Very rarely people do get ticketed for parking illegally in the spaces but it’s usually only ever done when officers are trying to meet a quota of fines given out and the backlash is never aimed at the police, it’s aimed at the disabled community. A few years ago in central California where I live the police “cracked down” on people illegally using the segregated parking spots and the general statistics for disabled people being assaulted skyrocketed.
Not only is there bigotry but people just don’t understand disability to the point where they see sign language as violent gang signs, accessibles as weapons, trouble with walking means you’re drunk, tics and other perceived “weird” movements or sounds are scary. Assault is unavoidable but the biggest issue is that people usually call 911 with good intentions, thinking the person needs help but when you call 911 the police come. 50% of all the murders committed by police each year in America are of disabled people. A huge portion of BLM victims are disabled.
wanted to reblog this on main.
a have a lot of friends who face shit like this and I feel all of y’all should know about ableism
Hey. LIVING COSTS MONEY! How about giving more money to the companies that employ me and MAYBE I MIGHT BE OK
This is such a funny thing to me because in Thai culture, it’s completely normal to live with your parents when you’re an adult. In fact, most people live in their family home until they’re married ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Saaaame in Pakistan dude and being abroad for grad school is really fucking me up I am not built to be even slightly independent 😂
In Western culture (including America!) it was completely normal for people to live with their parents in adulthood–sometimes until they married, sometimes longer. In America, that changed (for men) in the 1940s and 50s, when it was really really easy for an 18 year old to get a good job that paid more than enough to live a comfortable life on, or to afford college which would then practically guarantee you an even better-paying job. Women joined the trend of moving out at 18 in the 1960s and 70s.
And now those jobs don’t exist, or are few and far between, and guess what! People are living with their parents again. But that 70-year span was just long enough that it fell out of common memory, and now people are seen as “failures” because the economics have changed.
A very great deal of Western culture, ESPECIALLY America, is actually still based on a memory of the 40′s and 50′s as the baseline of normalcy despite them being a total fluke at the time. World War II and McCarthyism created a massive shift towards rabid patriotism, Christian fundamentalism and the ideal of the “nuclear family” that resembled nothing before it and we’re still recovering from as the majority of our most powerful politicians are old enough that this period of sudden fanaticism is their “nostalgic good old days” and the way they think things are “supposed to be.”
I love when these posts randomly become tiny history lessons, it soothes me
Hi genital,
so who else gets irrationally afraid and embarrassed about their interests being known to people in real life
#i’m not embarrassed but#i hate the thought of having to guard what i love#and defend any of my interests to others#people are the worst i don’t want them to know me
On a job application: “What is your preferred name and gender, we value diversity, so be honest.” Me:
I don’t know what this means. I’ve never filled out a form that said that.
they’re asking you to disclose if you’re transgender. legally, they can’t ask or consider someone’s gender in hiring someone, so they get around it by giving you the option of telling them yourself. if you “volunteer” the information, that’s legal.
its like when they try to figure out if you’re poor by asking if you have “reliable transportation,” hoping that ppl will explain that they dont have a car without actually being asked. things like that.
its a scummy thing to do, especially in this case where theyre presenting it like a “diversity” thing.
^^^^ Never answer those questions honestly if you actually want the job.
My managers have personally told people that anyone who puts anything like that outside of just “male or female” gets their application tossed immediately. Btw if an interviewer asks if you have reliable transportation, don’t say anything but “yes I do” that’s it!!!!! Don’t say another word don’t say you take the bus or walk or bike or get rides or uber don’t say anything!!!!! Just say yes and that is it they cannot require any sort of proof of transportation.
Shit. I didn’t know that about transportation but I'mma start doing it now.
I just took a class where one of the things we had to go over was interviewing to hire.
The entire process was super gross and made me feel scummy and unethical. SO!
Here is an article (that we used in class) that covers 30 Interview Questions Potential Employers are Not Allowed To Ask You (and what they might ask you instead).
Be on the look out for any of these questions.
look if movies being like 2.5 hours long is just gonna be the norm from now on then we gotta bring back intermissions. please let me piss.
Mark Hamill goodnaturedly patting Chadwick Boseman on the shoulder to celebrate his success is one of the most blessed images I’ve ever seen.
This is the Money Chadwick. Reblog In 47 minutes to get 48 million dollars.
Walter is my cousin’s dog. He really has a thing for swimming.
that was a religious experience
I’ve never seen a butt-mounted camera, but damn, this dog knows where he wants to go, and goes there fast.
His little ears flopping in he wind
THIS IS THE QUALITY CONTENT I WANT TO SEE
“sparkling water” sounds… so pure. so aesthetically pleasing. but in actuality? it is…. Repulsive
part 1: fem part 2: art part 3: self
Hello, sassy children! After months of waiting, the first issue is finally here! Whether you’ve been here from the start or just discovered the mag, thank you for being here. Enjoy!
MY MAG IS OUT
So sweet
I don’t know if you’ve actually seen this episode, but Pam invites the entire office to her art show that she’s been gearing up for for a really long time. Nobody shows up except for Oscar and his partner (and they critique her work, calling her “lacking in courage” among other things, not realizing she is standing right behind them) and then Michael. And Michael is the only one who tells her she is great just for putting herself out there, and the only one who places value on what she’s done, and he points out all the little details she got right and notices absolutely every bit of hard work she put into it. And then treats Pam like the artist she is by not just paying her for her art, but displaying it where literally everyone can see it.
It’s one of my favorite episodes.
oh shit waddup
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American Horror Story: Caucasian Males
