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3:56am January 30, 2015

alliecat-person:

Feminist blog that is apparently popular writes post explaining why mainstream feminism perpetuates feminism. Post is written by a disabled woman.

All of this is well and good, but the first and most prominent part of the article is all about language, including metaphorical language. Sigh. Are we still at the point where language is considered the primary issue?

To be fair, there was a part about accessibility—though it wasn’t as specific as it could have been, IMO. So it wasn’t as though the author completely reduced the issue to language.

All the same, the relative weights and placement of these sections are pretty telling.

I get it. It’s much easier to tell people what words and phrases they shouldn’t say than to tell them to make their events accessible, start having sign language interpreters, etc. But if we don’t even make some kind of effort, then these things sure as hell aren’t going to happen.

Reblogging because this commentary post seems right on, although haven’t read the post it’s responding to.

Completely off-topic WTF the update seems to have broken xkit’s ability to automatically add the same tags that were being used in the post you were replying to. Hey tumblr, I was using that!