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computers were born to be surrounded and supported by varnished wooden furniture. when you force them to live with particle boards and black plastic you make them very sick

guidancerune

left: healthy, supportive computer environment. some plants and a wooden desk would be nice, but the chair and loft ceiling make up for it.

right: youre killing her. shes dying

theunitofcaring

Hey if you're not physically disabled and just ND, please don't say "cr*ppling," or any variations thereon, since it's ableist toward physically disabled people. "Disabling," and "incapacitating," are two better words to use instead.

(It took me a while to figure it out; anon was bothered by this post.)

Okay, sure, I’ll try to do that. That said, I want to encourage people engaged in anti-ableism efforts that take the form of asking people not to use certain words to put their energies elsewhere. Firstly, I think they make the disability advocacy community inaccessible to a lot of people, since having to relearn which words are “allowed” is overwhelming and particularly difficult for people who have limited access to words in the first place.

Secondly, every time I’ve seen this implemented it…hasn’t made anyone less ableist? People who scrupulously remove “crazy” from their vocabulary in favor of “irrational” still treat the people they’re talking about like unpersons. Often the recommended replacement words are just as good at suggesting “less valuable person” as the words they replaced. I think there’s some value in asking “does our use of words surrounding disability to mean ‘bad thing’ come from a place of treating disabled people like tragedies?” and often it does, but that doesn’t mean that challenging that mindset is as easy as changing out the words. Thirdly, I think it emphasizes the wrong concerns. I saw a newspaper headline the other day saying “the president’s plan will be a crippling blow to the economy” and one about the “crippling burden of student debt”. I’d think that the fact the president’s plan includes making it harder to get SSI, or the fact disabled students are way less likely to graduate and likelier to end up in debt, is a much more urgent problem than the turn of phrase used in the headline.

Lastly, it seems like the anti-words advocacy often pretends at a false consensus in disability activism. There are physically disabled people who are bothered by that newspaper headline and those who are not. There are mentally ill people who are bothered by use of crazy and some who couldn’t care less. But no one ever says “hey, that word bothers me personally because people have used it to be mean to me”, they say “it’s ableist towards physically disabled people,” as if all physically disabled people agree on this (or as if the ones who disagree are just obviously confused poor souls and don’t merit a mention). “There are physically disabled people who dislike the phrase ‘crippling anxiety’ and there are physically disabled people who don’t care and there are physically disabled people who have, themselves, described their anxiety as crippling” is much more accurate, but less compelling.

cacodaemonia

Not to mention how constantly making previously common words or terms into ‘bad’ ones discriminates against older members of all kinds of communities, from queer people to disabled folks. So they suddenly become the enemies of younger community members over the use of words rather than behavior.

But yeah, treating any group like a monolith is a bad idea.

beatrice-otter

I’m 40 years old. This is relevant because in my lifetime, I have seen multiple renaming/rebranding efforts to find words that are not as hurtful to disabled people.

And each and every one of them failed. Within a very short time of going mainstream, the words that were supposedly neutral and less pejorative became, in practice, every bit as nasty and horrible as the word they replaced.

This is called the euphemism treadmill.

Why? Simple.

If someone thinks a group of people are scum who shouldn’t exist, and you tell that person “please don’t use [old word] for that group, use [new word] instead” you have not actually changed their mind about the group they hate one bit. They still think they’re scum who shouldn’t exist! It’s just now they have two words that mean “scum who shouldn’t exist,” [old word] and [new word]. There is no vocabulary change that will make them think about the group they hate any differently. You can shame them into not publicly discriminating (if you have the social buy-in from other people) and sometimes, sometimes if you have a relationship with someone you can over time influence them to be less hateful*, but just changing the word they use does absolutely nothing.

*If you want to work to change peoples’ perspective, the Hidden Brain podcast has an excellent episode on how to handle conflict that touches on “how can you influence people who disagree with you to move their position closer to yours.” Relationships 2.0: How To Keep Conflict From Spiraling

So while I try not to use words that will hurt people (because knowingly hurting people is a jerk move), I also don’t put that much effort into policing mine or other peoples’ language. Because there are so many other things that are more important to spend my time and energy on.

whetstonefires

frankly the harder my disabilities are hitting me the more appreciation i have for the word ‘crippling’

gothycollie

Oh yeah I never put this on tumblr

im back guys i cant wait for christmas

pmd-stardust

wiisagi-maiingan

Do not talk about your abusive family on tiktok. Do not talk about your closeted identity on tiktok. Do not talk about your traumas and mental illnesses on tiktok. Do not talk about your plans to move out from your abusive household on tiktok. Do not talk about the ways you disagree with your bigoted family on tiktok.

Do not attach your face or voice to anything on tiktok that you do not want your family members, neighbors, coworkers, or classmates to see. Be smart and stay safe.

are you

yes

#txt #txt post #questions

djayjesse-blog

Runner

gundumpster

Arsenal SAM7K with a more traditional AKS-74u (bulgarian?) pattered dust cover and sights. mmm, a four-piece flash hider too :)

it's a krunk! krinkov in 7.62x39.

makruvellie

check out my "curated" gun image blog, @gundumpster!!!! i post what i find interesting or cool haha

planning to queue a post every day, but i haven't built my drafts yet. mobile is a pain for uploading images

#gundumpster #new blog #blog #gun blog #i like the gun!!!!!!!!!!!#:D

twitter is just about done. now to wait for my moots to come here or find myself sobbing because no one wants to join hell with me ☹️

#txt #txt post #twitter #twitterpocalypse

ghastlyapparition-deactivated20

would u like a him in these trying times

can you believe it guys? a test signpost! woohoo! just a few lines of text! i am so happy about this information. let's go!

#test signpost #just a test signpost #here goes a few lines of text #shitpost #a #tumblr

teamyellremade

a selection of artist memes hand-picked and curated by me based on my own experiences

imagine posting on tumblr right haha

i don't feel as motivated these days but i'm gonna try to get a queue set up of my old works. not as quality as what i have nowadays but very good filler material, and something i couldn't do on twitter (they just never gave me the option)

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