You Can’t Fault The Adhesive

Apparently, the lady is being evacuated from flooding, which somehow heightens the absurdity. A detail she seems to appreciate and hence, presumably, her sharing of the video. Happily, she remains fabulous even in trying circumstances.

Please update your thinking accordingly and, if you can, do endeavour to shame others into adopting it too
Her use of the word conform was particularly touching. Though I suppose we shouldn’t expect more from someone who’s chosen to piss away time and money on a degree in “Critical Disability Studies.” A pseudo-intellectual dumpster fire we’ve touched on before. And I marvel at the number of people who will nod and preen and deploy the word “ableist,” based on the assumption – or rather, the pretence – that having functional vision isn’t preferable to being blind.

both of which seem pretty appropriate in her case.
Well, “Critical Disability Studies,” a division of Angry Studies, exploits the resentments one might have as a result of disability and redirects them towards non-disabled people, who are defined as The Problem, the inevitable oppressor, and then scolded for microscopic or entirely imagined insults. Which is some kind of compensation, I suppose.

Her handle (or WTF you call it on Twitter) is @crippledscholar.
Like what Bart Simpson said about “Naked Lunch” – there are two things wrong with that name.
My guess, since I don’t want to go down that rabbit hole, was that she has some sort of disability and she’s making a play for her identity group being allowed to reappropriate the word.

I know it’s not Friday yet but,
It’s always Friday here.
[ Hangs grubby-looking bunting above bar. ]

“Critical Disability Studies,” a division of Angry Studies, exploits the resentments one might have as a result of disability
I’m blind in one eye (childhood trauma), so I meet the legal definition of disabled, although I don’t really think of such. When asked how I do think of myself, I channel Callahan, and say “maimed”.
I am not offended in the slightest by terms like blind spot, blind sided, or any like terms.
I am offended my emotional cripples who have full vision trying to use my disability for their soapbox.
So if anyone here wants confirmation from a partially blind person that “blind spot” isn’t offensive to us, you’ve got it.
There’s a fully blind person in my condo who I see in the gym all the time. When people talk to him and use words like “see” or the like, and then apologize, he’s likewise unconcerned about the use of terms like that, and tells people not to worry about it.

There’s a fully blind person in my condo who I see in the gym all the time. When people talk to him and use words like “see” or the like, and then apologize, he’s likewise unconcerned about the use of terms like that, and tells people not to worry about it.
A good friend of mine is fully blind from a car accident when he was a kid and when stories like this come up he, jokingly of course, goes into a rant about being oppressed by “sighty”. I then egg him on until he rips on an old SNL skit Garrett Morris was in and starts singing, “I’m gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the sighties I see”. We laugh and laugh and I buy another round.

There’s enough lift in those eyelashes for take-off.
“Er, excuse me, madam. Is this your first time flirting?”

On the subject of unintentionally revealing final sentences…

TomJ,
The sentence that came to my mind was “Nice church you got here. Be a shame if anything …happened to it.”
It’s extortion, even if no cash is directly involved.
Probably also conspiracy to deprive civil rights, since I doubt a solo individual decided to send that note.

@ Farnsworth M Muldoon: ”Besides, other definitions of blind include …”
Also in relation to autistics: Mind-blindness meaning the inability to understand that other people have Minds and thus their own perspective on life and then for autistics to be able to ‘read’ and understand the minds of said others.
I once taught at a school for children with degrees of [legal] blindness and we all used the various terms relating to sight and vision in a normal manner, e.g. “John look for your ball on your left!” The current precious and pretentious ‘sensitivity’ was not a feature of life then.
Jim

both of which seem pretty appropriate in her case.
She’s now protected her account, and yet left this description in her bio:

I had to rewrite this because I dissociated & ended up on the psych ward:

So, that.

Please update your thinking accordingly and, if you can, do endeavour to shame others into adopting it too
If I recall correctly, there were deaf activists who militantly opposed surgery to allow children to hear for the first time as this would “destroy” the deaf community. They insisted that deafness was not a disability in any way. (I think I heard about this around 1980, but am very unsure.)

Bill de Haan: Thank you, that was *very* interesting.
The people I was referring to said nothing about difficulties with treatments that restored hearing, only that deafness was somehow a good thing in itself–not that this detracts from the value of your observations. What the political situation is today with regard to restoration of hearing or any other sense I have no idea.

Apparently the psychotherapist who was treating her uses astrology in her practice. More to unpack there than a shipload of Russian nesting dolls.

The sharp rise in the use of anti-depressants among the same demographic is probably just a coincidence.

Tim Newman is reading the Guardian.
As you may have guessed, it’s an article about feminist empowerment.

mental exhaustion caused by all the dramatics
Well, if you believe that the sky is falling, that everyone but you is a fascist, with “white supremacy” everywhere, and all the rest of it – or if you have to continually pretend to believe these things in order to fit in with your peer group – if you feel obliged to live in a state of near-continual indignation – then it must be quite exhausting. And a little deranging. And even if it’s just a pretence, a fashionable dishonesty, as so much leftism is, it’s still hugely corrosive to one’s sense of realism and probity.

Oh, via Battle Beagle

Heh. From the Vox sub-headline…

Many books aren’t fact-checked, and we’re increasingly realizing they’re full of errors.

As Billy Jeu de Vine used to say, no shit Sherlock. While I don’t recall actually being taught this in school (probably because educators like to pretend otherwise) it seemed rather obvious to me as I read more and more books. Especially history books. It seems bizarre to me that there are adults in this world, many in very prominent positions, who do not understand this.

“there is a shortage of men with stable incomes and lives, making it tough for women to do so.”
“there is a shortage of men with stable incomes and lives”, Women and Children Hardest Hit
At least in the portions Tim quotes, there is zero concern for the men. What a f’ing surprise.

It seems bizarre to me that there are adults in this world, many in very prominent positions, who do not understand this.
It is very difficult to accept a premise that will cost you money.

On the subject of misgendered, another story in the ongoing “terf” wars. The trans community in Toronto tries to de-platform feminist Meghan Murphy at the public library of all places. Ms. Murphy is the founder of Feminist Current.”

Ms. Murphy is the founder of Feminist Current.
Not entirely sure who to root for.

Not entirely sure who to root for.
I know. Isn’t it delicious.

Upon rereading, I think Crippled Scholar may be a parody, like Titania.