11:37am July 31, 2012

If your revolution requires me to dance

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Feminist Website Tigerbeatdown tweets:

“If the medical standard for life is the heartbeat, I’m sure Antis will be glad to pay for long term care for those in vegetative states.”

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Many people with disabilities I know went “WHAT?” I went “The last fuck I’m giving,” because, you know, there are other things I could do with my time thancontinue to stand up and support a movement that thinks that people with disabilities are meaningless props to use to score political points.

Three days later:

msrumphius:

“Many Locked-In Syndrome Patients Happy”

Previous research shows people with extreme disabilities can be happy in what is known as “the disability paradox,” meaning that even people who have a very limited daily existence, report being happy, contrary to what many experts had assumed.

people with extreme disabilities can be happy in what is known as “the disability paradox,” contrary to what many experts had assumed

Many people considered to be in “Vegetative States” turn out to be in Locked In Syndrome, by the way.

I know the online feminist movement is not going to miss me and my horrible “language policing” ways and my requests for transcripts and demands that websites uphold their own commitment to accessibility and my wretchedly annoying mention of people with disabilities and how they actually matter 100% of the time and all that shit. One of my off-line feminist groups actually kicked me out for refusing to support a “pro-choice” activist who argued that people with disabilities should automatically be aborted because it is morally wrong to give birth to disabled people because I should just shut up and support the pro-choice person rather than bring up that people with disabilities are people because Don’t I care enough about women?

No, apparently I do not, because I think that women with disabilities are also women, yes even those women who are in locked-in states. Yes, even those women who can’t even make it to the couch on a good day. Yes, even those women who hurt themselves in order to cope, even those women who have addictions, even those women who have uncontrollable shakes, even those women who have pain they can’t even describe, yes even those women who can’t see, who can’t hear, who can’t verbalize, who use sign language, who have all sorts of impairments and disabilities and coping mechanisms that mainstream society would like to hide.

If you revolution requires us to dance, I’m waiting for the next one.

This is a big disappointment from Tiger Beatdown.