seventypercentethanol:false moon

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false moon

in other news I may have purchased someone’s

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in other news I may have purchased someone’s gold plated wedding band for a dollar at a convention

oreoprince:listen……. ‘my

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listen……. ‘my love’ is literally the strongest and greatest pet name in existence. there is literally nothin better than somone callin you that….. especially when things are soft and quiet and they look at you with utter adoration and whisper “what’s the matter, my love??” or “i hope everything is okay with you, my love” like oh my god?? let me marry you already

Misread this as referring to the names you give to pets (animals which live in your home and which you take care of) and got pretty confused

tbh identity politics about casual ableist language

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tbh identity politics about casual ableist language is… not great imo. specifically, I’m talking about stuff that makes people with developmental disabilities out to be the presumed-impacted presumed-arbiters of langauge like “stupid”, “idiot”, “dumb”. the assumption that these words are used primarily to refer to developmental disability seems, uh, specious to me.

I think that langauge is obviously ableist, and bad, and the assumptions behind it (ignorance and moral failure being due to “lower intelligence”, the assumption that “intelligence” is morally or inherently good, the idea that “intelligence” is like, an actual coherent concept rather than a collection of racist and ableist assumptions about brains and actions) are bad but like

i don’t think… that it works out in the real world to say “these (people with developmental disabilities) are the people impacted by these words. these (people who don’t have developmental disabilities) are not.” I think the nature of “intelligence” based ableism is a lot more nebulous than that.

anyway I could be wildly off base here and please message me or something if you think what I’m saying here is fucked up. i really don’t know, this is just something that I’ve been thinking about kinda.

eta: this isn’t to minimize the impact of this kind of ableism on people with developmental disabilities. the particularly harsh impacts of this kind of ableism on people with developmental disabilities are real and I don’t want to ignore those realities.

hailmaryfullofgrace55675: in other news I may have

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in other news I may have purchased someone’s gold plated wedding band for a dollar at a convention

not on purpose! I thought it was costume jewelry!

re: ableist language i agree for the most part but also i think it's important to acknowledge that s

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that’s very true and I agree that it’s super important to acknowledge. thank you for contributing this ask.