Not giving context because I don't want to add fuel to the fire.

[jhameia]

I'm sorry to have to say this, but if you're going to write a review about Evelyn Evelyn and dismiss the criticism from the people who are facing the oppression that our horrendously ablist culture is bringing up as being "too angry", you're missing the point of feminism, which is, you know, at its very base, anti-oppression. And after days and tens of comments of people pointing out to you how accessibility issues are very real and have effects on lives of actual people, you know, much like how sexism has very real effects on women, which is what feminism addresses, you do not get to say this:

I’d say you’re all more than welcome to come and kick my ass, but I’m afraid my house isn’t wheelchair accessible.

Saying this to people who identify as PWD? This is schoolyard bullying. This is pushing a person smaller than you down to the ground. This is not levity. As a lover of humour, I am deeply insulted and incensed you even call this levity. How dare you? Throwing sand into a person's eyes and laughing is not levity.

It is cruelty.

I'm stumped that the mod of a site called Feminist Review has the gall to allow such a cruel person run rampant. But after all the shit that has broken out in the feminist blogosphere recently, I'm not surprised. Feminists are not free from the sociopathic conditioning that the larger kyriarchal culture breeds in us. This is just another bit in a long line of evidence.

So... this post doesn't actually have a point after I refused to engage in that thread after the mod's first response to me (which amounted to, "oh, but we want to have a dialogue! we just can't make people hold back, that wouldn't be fair! which really means I won't be holding people accountable for playing into oppression!") but I just wanted to say to the FWDs who've been fighting the good fight, you are awesome. And I am so sorry you had to even fight.

Comments

Re: why context is necessary

[(Anonymous)]

As is the case with many bloggers, I get an alert from Google whenever FR's name comes up around the web. Given that you intentionally failed to link to the blog post you're referencing and are claiming to represent my words, but actually have seriously misrepresented them (a move that lacks integrity), I have a right to set the record straight and provide the link to anyone who happens across your site so they can read what I actually said.

I also find it very troubling that you're offering no evidence to support your claim that Natalie wrote this comment, and refuse to say where is it posted. I Googled the comment and the only place that comes up is this site. I truly hope your readers don't accept your claim as fact w/out any evidence (though it seems at least one already does, and that is shameful on her part). I hope even more that you haven't concocted a lie for some sort of personal satisfaction. That'd be really f-ed up.

No, I won't post here anymore. And I won't be back. Though I hope you have enough of a sound personal ethic to provide a link to where that comment can be found.

Re: why context is necessary

[fantasyecho.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well then.

Once more, with feeling, not interested in engaging. Don't worry, most readers of this here LJ won't care about this issue anyway, much like you.

Re: why context is necessary

[fionnabhair-ii.livejournal.com]

Jeez, what is with people, lately, who keep thinking that they have some deity-given right to spew bile wherever they please? IT DOESN'T APPLY IN PRIVATE SPACES, like someone's personal LJ,