I'm constantly distressed and shocked when I hear of this sort of thing. I realize that people can make thoughtless comments out of ignorance, but these are deliberately cruel and fear-based and hate-filled. It saddens me not only that these attitudes exist, but that you were subjected to them.
Oh good... I thought it was about the opposite when I saw 'ableism'. I always FORGET you use a chair a lot before someone reminds me and probably would have been guilty.
*I* for one wouldn't want to mess with you, least of all in a chair, I've SEEN you throw people around in that thing. That you went to Tech and have a analytical mind would scare the poop out of me if I were on the opposite side of a physical altercation from you and knew it. ::HUGS::
This year is kind of a wash with respect to moving towards a more self sustaining HoneyWine Hollow, but you up for coming over again to look at NEXT year? :)
I did most of the sketching already; unless you've had a bulldozer out for the last few months to rearrange your contours, that part shouldn't have changed *g*.
I don't really think the analytical part plays into violence all that much, unless I have significant warning that someone's coming after me, when I generally use it to escape. Useful in downtown in the middle of the night...although you wouldn't recognize Techwood now. Most times when someone's attacked me, thought hasn't been involved. I've had to retrain that part, though--the first time Douglas didn't give me warning on a lift, I threw him across the studio instead of up into the air. Fortunately, it was a hardwood floor, but he's always careful to warn me before he just sprints at me now.
I'll admit that there are times when I think a little creative ableism would be a good thing...starting with that joke about the bar with no chairs.
Goddess, WTF is wrong with some people? I just don't understand prejudices, I really don't. That's all I can say. Just. Do. Not. Get.
My mind refuses to wrap around that sort of maissve stupidity and then the pure lack of class and tact and...and... humanity to say it to someone's face.
You're a better woman than me. I'd be in prison for assault, or perhaps murder by now.
My secret is that my first reaction is shock at the sheer rudeness. That gives the other impulses time to settle first *g*.
It's good to know that there are a few aspects of my proper Southern inculturation that are actually useful...unlike the one that says I must scrub and bleach every inch of the house before I can let *anyone* in it.
I had to spend some time AFK to let the anger die down a bit. I guess the true handicaps really ARE ignorance and intolerance, both driven I suppose by a base-less fear of "different". I've seldom seen ab's that could keep up with half of what you do (myself included)in a given day. I respect you...I love adore you...I thank The Lady that I know you! And I REALLY feel sorry for the fools that dare to fuck with you!
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*I* for one wouldn't want to mess with you, least of all in a chair, I've SEEN you throw people around in that thing. That you went to Tech and have a analytical mind would scare the poop out of me if I were on the opposite side of a physical altercation from you and knew it. ::HUGS::
This year is kind of a wash with respect to moving towards a more self sustaining HoneyWine Hollow, but you up for coming over again to look at NEXT year? :)
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I don't really think the analytical part plays into violence all that much, unless I have significant warning that someone's coming after me, when I generally use it to escape. Useful in downtown in the middle of the night...although you wouldn't recognize Techwood now. Most times when someone's attacked me, thought hasn't been involved. I've had to retrain that part, though--the first time Douglas didn't give me warning on a lift, I threw him across the studio instead of up into the air. Fortunately, it was a hardwood floor, but he's always careful to warn me before he just sprints at me now.
I'll admit that there are times when I think a little creative ableism would be a good thing...starting with that joke about the bar with no chairs.
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My mind refuses to wrap around that sort of maissve stupidity and then the pure lack of class and tact and...and... humanity to say it to someone's face.
You're a better woman than me. I'd be in prison for assault, or perhaps murder by now.
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It's good to know that there are a few aspects of my proper Southern inculturation that are actually useful...unlike the one that says I must scrub and bleach every inch of the house before I can let *anyone* in it.
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I guess the true handicaps really ARE ignorance and intolerance,
both driven I suppose by a base-less fear of "different". I've
seldom seen ab's that could keep up with half of what you do (myself
included)in a given day. I respect you...I love adore you...I
thank The Lady that I know you! And I REALLY feel sorry for the fools that dare to fuck with you!
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