your blitzop kinda reminds me of this one image i found and its like “i have multiple personality disorder” “dayum!!!! any of them freaky???”
You do not know how much it pains me that that meme is the most common way people engage with Blitzwing's DID and how "Multiple personality disorder" is outdated by 32 years with the release of the DSM-4 and how I know that this meme must have been made after the shift to using DID but the creator did not use it because of popculture idea of DID. The DSM-4 still had mental retardation as an official diagnosis. I am in pain. I am suffering.
Wanted to illustrate what’s actually being said when people use disability and injury in daily speech, both towards abled people and disabled people.
There’s no way to use the word that removes it from these meanings.
And it makes people hate the disabled and themselves for having it.
It feeds into the common social idea that disability is a moral flaw, and that it is “wrong” to be disabled.
People usually aren’t malicious for using these words is casual speech and jokes, it’s wide spread in language use and most people just follow that same harmful pattern without looking into it. But you are doing something harmful, the words only have negative meaning because people negatively talk about the disabled, and this is who you’re mentioning in your language
What I’m saying is you, personally you reading this, can stop using these words, and stop using disability in casual speech
When a slur becomes casual, exclusion can also slowly become casual.
There's been talk of the latest season of Euphoria and the r-slur being thrown around. Especially in tandem with how the r-slur has been renormized.
On an April episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the host used a slur within the first 45 seconds of the show.
And Trump's normalization of the word.
A joint study from Montclair State University faculty in the Joetta Di Bella and Fred C. Sautter III Center for Strategic Communication in
And I think the euphoria commentary goes by what I call the "Joffery Principle". I haven't seen Euphoria, so I can't talk about the context in which it was used, but there's always that "But what if this character is just a bigot? I can't just write characters I agree with all the time."
Which gets me into my Joffery Principle.
Aside from "I should be allowed to write a character I disagree with" is practically saying "let's play devil's advocate" and the devil doesn't need an advocate.
If you're writing an asshole JUST BECAUSE they're an asshole. I think that's bad writing. That's WHY I hated GOT. Because, your characters have no depth. You're not evaluating WHY your character is like this. You don't have contrasting viewpoints to challenge them.
Your character is just an asshole because... they're an asshole. And I think that's really shitty lazy writing.
If you want to write a good story with good characters, you have to evaluate WHY is your character like this? What happened to make them like this? What problem does it solve or worldview does it fit into? You need to have people with opposing opinions to push against that worldview.
Because every action is a choice. It's not a deliberate one but a small subconscious one that says something about the character. "No. He bought a green mug because he bought a green mug." No. Maybe it was the right size. It felt right in his hand. It was cheap. He needed a mug, and it was convenient. Not every full thought out explanation needs to be in your story, sure. But you, as the writer, need to have well developed understandings of these small throw away decisions to build real emotional character conflict.
Even the use of the r-slur is a choice. Maybe not one they think about every time they say it, but a small one. Subconscious.
I dunno. That's just my thought. Thinking about small things like word choices and green cups give a lot more depth to your characters that make it feel more real, and having people challenge these small, subconscious choices can really dig into your character's world view. Who they are as a person. It makes your characters FEEL real.
i think i've said it before but i don't think the r-slur is something we should be trying to reclaim. it's inherently only used hatefully, or at best, in a self-deprecating way. there are better terms and words for the potential community aspect of it that aren't calling someone slow and/or mentally impaired. i don't think it'll ever be able to get over that hurdle. at best, it'll only ever be an explanation.
i feel like most people pushing to try and reclaim it just don't understand what they're doing. like say, autistic gamers who grew up saying it in online games and don't care to get it out of their vocabulary and think it's fine. in their eyes, black people can say the n-word because they're black, gay people can say the f-slur because they're gay, so they should be able to say the r-slur because they're autistic. i've never seen any real deep thought around it.
Just an FYI in case it wasn't obvious: using aggressive language and slurs to denounce the people you thoughtlessly and irrationally despise doesn't make you look any better. The r-slur is, in fact, a slur and replacing the prefix of it does not make it any less of a slur. But seeing as you're unwilling to open your mind to the fact that hating on a community parallel to yours is akin to shooting yourself in the foot, it doesn't really surprise me that you'd be ableist as well.
Tell me. Why is it that the antis are always so frothing mad, while the pros are always grounded and nonconfrontational? I think the answer is pretty obvious, but I'll let the air answer for me.
OP has been blocked and I blurred their username because I'm not a monster, and I don't want to engage directly because I refuse to sink to their level. Please don't go after them either. But I had to say something about this weird hypocrisy they have, calling us ableist appropriators whilst stubbornly pushing ableist agendas themselves.
