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There's the Medical Model of Disability, and the Social Model of Disability. There's also a third one...

The medical model of disability frames the disability as starting and ending with the individual and their impairment. And dealing with that means fixing (curing) what is broken about them.

The social model of disability frames disability as emerging from the society in which the individual lives -- that an "impairment" becomes a "Disability" when it is not accommodated or accepted.

I was recently reminded that there's also the moral model of disability, that says that disabilities are punishments for sin, or evil in a person.

In today's "Scientific Age," we (in the industrialized West at least), like to think that we've left the moral model of disability in the past -- that the Puritans in the early American colonies might have believed in that stuff. But we don't believe in demons and curses anymore.

But I actually think that the medical model of disability is a direct descendant of the moral model; modern medical schools may not give lectures on demonology. But doctors and other clinicians still treat disability as some sort of "taint," that the person must be purified of before they can rejoin "normal" society. Cure (or as close to it as you can get) is the first, last, and only, acceptable goal.

If that doesn't smack of exorcism, I don't know what does.

#disabilities #ableism #eugenics #medicine #history #just world fallacy

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please do not go so hard at "Elon is terrible and the Cybertruck is a dumpster fire" (which is true) that you somehow make your way to "electric cars are all ticking time bombs" (which is false, and mostly said by people who want to keep driving combustion engine cars perpetually because they think the climate crisis is made up)

#yeah unfortunately we we will not be able to continue to have a society (life support for human beings) if we do not take intermediate steps #and a lot of those intermediate steps will ALSO be bad and have generational bad consequences. but like #we are on a ship that has been so generationally committed to fucking up everybody that literally you have to watch the acceleration #not the position (bad and will not be good for generations) #not the velocity (bad and will not be good for a generation or two) #but the literal rate of change of how fast we're heading where we're going. are we slowing down or speeding up our pace toward catastrophe? #electric cars #cars #fuckcars #fuck cars #petroleum #oil #environment #conservation #transportation

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good sensations can sometimes be extreme, and i know i personally enjoy a good few of those, so i wanted to know which of these types of pain are the most commonly enjoyed :)

basically my question is. am i such a touch deprived weirdo that i'll enjoy fucked up sensations no one else likes or am i normal

#muscular exhaustion during workouts but i'm not a fan of the soreness afterward #pain #sensory issues #polls

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saying 'usamericans' is like referring to congolese ppl as 'democongolese'. we know what u mean when u say american its okay

last i checked there was a pair of continents called the americas and not even one called congo. what do you think should be the name of the people living in them? should that demonym get to belong to the worlds most annoying and self involved local hegemon? latinoamericans speak and write about why they do this, which also functions as a response to us hegemony in the region. i do it to annoy tedious people and you have made my day by telling me you exist.

#i have a tendency to use ''USian'' but i am pretty guilty of using ''american'' instead. i am not exempt from fuck em when relevant etc etc #united states hegemony #united states #imperialism #colonialism

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if I forgot your favorite subgenre or misclassified a band feel free to argue in the replies 👍

#i voted nu metal without reading the comments because it's descriptively true but my close second is symphonic metal #music #metal #polls

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while i was out running errands just now, i overheard two adults having a conversation about selling kids' toys for money when they become desired by collectors. one of the people said verbatim, "I didn't know you're not supposed to open your toys! Nobody told me, I was a dumb kid!"

welcome to capitalist america, where children aren't allowed to play with their own fucking toys. actual children are being pressured to forego playing with their own toys because they might be worth more down the road (and more than likely, for the parent's profit, not the child's.) children. can't play with their toys. those things that are made for children. to be played with. kids can't even LOOK at them because they're being locked away in closets and safes to be in "mint condition" for collectors down the line.

toys aren't made for profit, they're made to be FUCKING PLAYED WITH. children's toys are not "baby's first investment." they're CHILDREN they don't need to worry about how much their TOY will be worth down the road. fuck this system. not even kids are safe. i want this shit to burn to the ground. i want kids to be able to fucking PLAY and be happy. please for the love of god just let kids be kids. let this shit be over with once and for all, our CHILDREN are suffering.

#what the fuck #consumerism #capitalism #parenting #profiteering

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Working at the sex shop really did rewire my brain. There was basically no topic that was too taboo to talk about, and what little propriety I’d had evaporated. I’d be out walking and chatting with friends about erotica I’d had to read that day only to be shushed and realize people were staring at me.

It always struck me as a little bit silly but I learned to curb myself for others comfort levels. Mostly.

But I have one distinct memory of decorating holiday cookies with my parents and my grandmother. My mom had worked in a sex shop back in her day, and I never hid my line of work from my family, so I was telling a work story.

I was conscious that my dad was slightly more sensitive, so I was using pretty broad descriptions, but I happened to mention silicone lube and my nana asked, “What’s that?”

I went into full sales mode. Focused on the little reindeer cookie I was decorating I started info dumping, “Oh, it’s pretty great. Water based lubricants get absorbed through vaginal mucous membranes, but silicone is too dense and our body can’t absorb it the same way. So once you apply some silicone you never have to worry about chafing, and a little goes a long way. It’s especially popular with older women, because they start producing less natural lubricant and absorb water based lubes so quickly.”

There was a silent beat after this statement.

I looked up.

My mom and grandmother were looking at me with rapt attention, and I belatedly realized I was addressing two older women who probably would welcome extra lubrication.

And then there was my dad, blushing so pink with embarrassment that I thought he was about to faint.

“I can talk about something else,” I offered in apology to my dad.

“Like hell! He can go in the other room, tell me more!” My nana declared. My dad scampered off to busy himself in another room while I answered their questions and talked about brands and pricing.

I slipped them each a small bottle of silicone lube for the holidays.

#oh this is great #health education #sex education #sex ed

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“Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. When you look up the stage directions, it says, ‘Exit Ariel.’”

— Tom Stoppard, University of Pennsylvania, 1996 (via flameintobeing)

#theater!!!! #theater #theatre #shakespeare #acting #the tempest #stage productions #stagecraft

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all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

#i'm not 100% sure whether kim petras is wlw (a lot of songs seemed to suggest it?) but she's queer bc she's trans at least #taylor swift fandom #swifties #reading comprehension #media literacy #literacy #music #pop music #representation

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#as an early diagnosed autistic person with two less-disabled autistic parents who still didn't always get it -- thank you for the addition #autism #ableism #disabilities #accessibility #accommodations #sensory issues #education #parenting

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When your partner has a praise kink but you're Montessori trained so you know that praise is an ineffective way to encourage development and it's much more productive to acknowledge their effort so that they learn to effectively give themselves feedback so they can develop a healthy intrinsic motivation instead of deriving their self worth from labels put on them by other people .... "baby it's amazing how much you could last today compared to last week"

#...i went to a montessori school for elementary this would work on me #(actually this would work on me regardless) #this is also an education joke ok? #praise #kink #psychology #education

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love language

#psa #signal boost #sex education #kink #biting #first aid #medicine #health

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"No climate justice on occupied land"

#okay thank you for the correction. i fell for this. mea culpa #correction #the plot thickens #greta thunberg #propaganda #media literacy #police violence

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I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits

#media literacy #media #japan #history #japanese history #nuclear war #nuclear weapons #hiroshima #nagasaki #bubble economy #anime #manga #film #television #movies

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people on the left love to point out instances of hypocrisy because its easy and you never actually have to make an argument, but you always leave the door open. i don't know how this keeps happening, like everyone says "hmm isn't it strange that chuds say racial diversity in a fantasy setting is 'unrealistic' but they're fine with dragons and magic" without fucking thinking for even a second. like, that implies that realistic grounded historical fiction is fair game to be all white, right? like you never actually said whether diversity is good or not, you just offered a contradiction that can super fucking easily be remedied and cruised over.

#i think it's genuinely because people have learned that pointing out hypocrisy is a shortcut to clout without actually venturing anything #and people tend to apply this technique without thinking about it once they learn about it bc it's socially ''safer'' #than staking even the most milquetoast progressive position #because our hell society is so acutely bigoted and so acutely unsafe for any kind of sincere expression of slightly non-normative values #so people deploy tactical snark instead of doing the outright brave thing even when they have the leeway to do the outright brave thing #and even when it means they actually fumble the message by fucking up in a way as utterly basic as what patricia mentions #in the household we make memes about ''oh that's not --'' ''--in the sense that--'' and this seems like basically the right context for tha #racism #media #media literacy #communication #hypocrisy #social skills

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#really want a star trek episode about something like this #space barnacle attaches to the ship #they cant tell if its symbiotic or only parasitic #it is harmless but small #what happens as it grows? #and it is a living thing #do you leave it be and risk the ship #do you try to get it to attach to something else #do you kill it? (via @elephant-in-the-pride-parade)

Mind if I use this? Now I'm thinking about starship symbionts that attach to the whole ship and that have hyperparasites that gradually break off and fuse with the crew. Ooh, maybe the crew symbionts always try to kill the ship symbiont for some instinctual reason...

Dendrogaster (a crustacean that parasitizes starfish)

#parasites #parasitism #symbiosis #body horror #horror #biology #writing #plotbunnies #science fiction #sci fi #ecology #environment

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Congratulations! You are now a Magic-User!!

#my wife picked for me: ''your skin has a dull metallic sheen to it''. i would have picked pupils/moon or blood red hair #polls #magic #fantasy #chaos magic #wild magic