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ALTSince July is Disability Pride Month
(as opposed to every other month when we're all demure about disability rights /gentle sarcasm)
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Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined
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Disability in American Sign Language. Handshapes D and A with the pattern of the disability pride flag: green, blue, white, yellow, and red diagonal stripes over a dark grey background.
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The faded black background represents "the anger and mourning over the eugenics and the neglect that disabled people have to fight against."
Red represents physical disabilities.
Gold is for neurodiversity.
White represents invisible disabilities and disabilities that haven't yet been diagnosed.
Blue stands for emotional and psychiatric disabilities, including mental illness, anxiety, and depression.
Green is for sensory disabilities, including deafness, blindness, lack of smell, lack of taste, audio processing disorder, and all other sensory disabilities.
something that repeats itself over and over and over is that exclusionists don't understand the difference between one person and themselves, or one person and the entire community. they live for projection and generalisation. they live for an oversimplified mess.
we're seeing it now with mspec lesbians and lesbian men. someone states they're lesbian and attracted to men or speaks out in support of those who are and someone will immediately jump in and say "so you think that all lesbians are attracted to men?" as if someone stating their personal experience somehow makes it a universal truth, as if lesbians are a monolithic group.
the same thing happens when a trans man says he identifies as lesbian. someone will immediately jump in and say "oh, so you think me being a trans man attracted to women means i'm lesbian?" as if someone's personal experience is a universal truth, as if trans men are a monolith.
but this isn't new at all. REGs have always been awful at nuance. so much so that it often feels deliberate, to be honest. like a deliberate attempt to derail the conversation from the actual thing that's talked about, making it about a strawman that doesn't exist.
it happened with non-binary lesbians. "so all lesbians have to be attracted to non-binary people?" "so me being attracted to women as a non-binary person means i have to be lesbian?"
it happened with non-bi mspec people. "so because i'm attracted to people regardless of gender i can't call myself bi?" "so you think bi is exclusionary?"
it happened with aces not being comfortable being called bisexual, pansexual etc. "so you're reducing MY bisexuality to only sex?"
it happened with aces and aros labelling multiple orientations. "so you think everyone has to separate their sexual attraction from their romantic attraction?"
it happened with non-binary people. "so you think because i'm gnc i can't be a man/woman?"
and it probably happened with other identities before my time.
and for a group who loves to shout "non-binary isn't a single third gender", that loves to shout about how non-binary is not a monolith, they sure love treating basically every identity as one.
it's always the same. their response to other communities emerging and thriving is always that we're trying to take everything over with our ideas, that we want everyone to be like us, that we're somehow the ones that don't understand nuance. they think by stating our experiences we're trying to force our experiences into other people, despite us not randomly calling trans men lesbians without their consent, despite us not caring that people call all of their attractions collectively "pansexual", despite us not caring if people experience sexual and romantic people as one, despite us not forcing every trixic to be lesbian, despite us not caring that someone chooses the label bi over other mspec labels.
they also love to bring up real issues in this, trying to compare other people existing to real bigots, like people saying that asexuals not wanting to be called bisexual means that asexuals are just evil bimisics who oversexualise and fetishise bi people. and that's what makes it so much more believable to the people who aren't familiar with either side, because of course they agree that fetishising bi people is bad. they just don't realise that that's not what we're doing.
what we care about is inclusion. to not be erased. to not be demonised. to be respected. acknowledged. accepted. we want diversity, which includes people like and unlike us. but they think our existence is imposing something onto them. and this is honestly why i feel like there's no point in trying to convince REGs who are committed to their bullshit otherwise. it's no use. they'll just claim i'm trying to speak a universal truth by speaking my personal experience. they'll just keep using prescriptivist ideas and restrictive definitions of labels rather than treating identities like identities. they'll just go against everything that is queerness.
Preliminary Poll 1: Ace Attorney
Vote For Your Favourite Overworked Blorbo!
Dick Gumshoe
Apollo Justice
Miles Edgeworth
Franziska Von Karma
Phoenix Wright
MY PSIIONIC WARRIORS
PROPAGANDA:
franziska deserves to win this. gumshoe is a strong contender, but i am insane about the fact that miles is beating her.
franziska was likely born with an advanced law book in her hands. she was, at one point, the youngest bar-certified lawyer in ace attorney canon, passing her exam at the age of 13. in all canons she is canonically bilingual and works as both an international prosecutor and agent. when her shit ass cringefail brother (miles edgeworth, the guy who is somehow BEATING HER) decided to fake his own death and traumatize all his loved ones because he lacked the emotional intelligence to face his own demons and ask for help, it is heavily implied that franziska took his case load.
starting at age 13 franziska had a perfect win streak in court that lasted 5 years. after a momentary lapse in this streak she picked it right back up and spent another year racking up even more victories.
in the final case of ace attorney's OG trilogy, bridge to the turnabout, i calculated the exact math to find out that franziska von karma stayed awake for 40+ hours straight, and that is lowballing.
and finally,
in the final case of game 2 franziska was shot, non-fatally, by a trained, hired assassin. for a gunshot wound to the shoulder, the average person would probably be looking at 3-5 days in the hospital (surgery, recovery, blood transfusions if needed, initial physical therapy assessment, and pain control), and 2-3 months to full recovery with physical and occupational therapy. even someone who was really diligent about getting out of the hospital might be able to do it in 2 days and get back to work at a desk job in about 10 days, but it would still be a couple months to full recovery.
franziska was out of that fucking hospital in a day, no doubt because she threatened the nurses and doctors with both legal and physical harm, but more importantly because there was justice to be served. lives on the line.
she left that hospital, jumped into a fucking car, and started chasing down the only lead anyone had left in the case. and then she busted into court with her fucking bullet wound, oh, and just for flair?
THREW THE DOOR OPEN WITH HER INJURED ARM JUST TO FLEX
and literally
LITERALLY
SAVED THE ACTUAL DAY
fuck everyone else and fuck miles edgeworth especially if nothing else i need to make my followers who don't know shit about ace attorney recognize that she deserves this
