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

[annaham.livejournal.com]

JHA, JUST FYI, YOU ARE AMAZING. You make me not-ashamed to call myself a feminist (which is fucking DIFFICULT for me, at times).

<3

[dorian-is-i.livejournal.com]

You = win, as does everyone who kept engaging in that thread despite how MONSTROUSLY OBTUSE the mods there were being.

I look up to y'all so much; you don't even know.

why context is necessary

[(Anonymous)]

That comment is not on the Feminist Review blog, Jha. And it would never be permitted on the Feminist Review site, so writing a post without that added context is enormously dishonest. (Where is this comment actually from anyway? And who even wrote it?)

Your subjective paraphrasing of my comments also seriously misses the mark, so if anyone is interested in what truly is on the FR blog and what my actual comments were, both the review and the comments that emerged from the review are here:
http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2010/05/evelyn-evelyn.html

No one is from kyriarchal conditioning, Jha. Not feminists. Not PWD. Not you. Not me. No one.