6:17pm July 20, 2013

OMG

There are people who think I went to the trouble of inventing the word hateability because I actually wanted to say oppressed.

Like I would come up with a new word and write literally fifty drafts trying to put words around the definition, if I just wanted to say oppressed. Like I wouldn’t just come out and say it.

NO I DON’T THINK OTHERKIN ARE AN OPPRESSED GROUP.

Most plurals are, but that’s because their definition had been taken over by psychiatry so they face ableism, not because plurality is itself an oppressed group (any more than any specific disability diagnosis is).

My ambiguous language was meant to reflect that some hateable groups have that overlap issue, not that they’re themselves oppressed groups or I’d have said so outright

And after trying all those wordings it still want completely perfect and somehow I was giving the impression oppressed people aren’t hated with a lot more power behind it than hateable people.

I can see how it looked like that. What I really meant was that even in spaces where hate attached to oppression is examined, hate attached to hateability isn’t. (And that sometimes even the fact that it’s not attached to oppression is used to dismiss it as not having any impact, in those specific spaces. Or the fact that some hateable people call themselves oppressed when they’re not, will be used to damn everyone who has ever been part of the same group, and justify hate that was there to begin with.)

Different groups. Different problems. Different degrees and kind of problems. Different issues. Different NAMES. Got it?

If you want to know my views on these things and aren’t sure what I mean, try asking me instead of  jumping to conclusions.

I actually can see where the second person got that idea that I meant oppressed people weren’t hated or shit on even worse.  I didn’t mean it. At all. But I see where she got it.

But the first person seemed to be deliberately looking for things between the lines in order to dismiss what I was saying. And I can only roll my eyes at that. I have no time for that kind of game. I may misspeak, hell I do it constantly in ways most people can’t predict,  but I never do it on purpose. If I meant oppression I wouldn’t make up a new word and write fifty posts trying to explain it best.

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