Read this!
Dec. 16th, 2011 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mni(Another item for the Able-Bodied/Bipedal Privilege Backpack):
"The High Cost of Being Disabled"
http://davehingsburger.blogspot.com/2011/12/high-cost-of-being-disabled.html
Also, this is one of the rare blogs where it's safe to read the comments. This post has one comment from a troll, basically saying: "Come on, you cripples can't really expect to be treated equally, do you? After all, you're a burden."
But all the other commenters calmly, and systematically, untie that argument and expose all its fallacies.
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Also, speaking of blogs, posting an entry this close to Christmas, titled "Mary's Child ..." increased traffic to my blog by ten fold in less than twenty-four hours (usually, I get about 2 - 4 hits a day, maybe ten a week, that one post has 38). Most of those hits came from Google searches, so I imagine most of the folks were disappointed at the lack of magi, shepherds, and little boys, and left almost as quickly as they came. ... But I got two new "followers" out of it, so at least some actually read what I wrote...
Yay for the power of cultural zeitgeists?
"The High Cost of Being Disabled"
http://davehingsburger.blogspot.com/2011/12/high-cost-of-being-disabled.html
Also, this is one of the rare blogs where it's safe to read the comments. This post has one comment from a troll, basically saying: "Come on, you cripples can't really expect to be treated equally, do you? After all, you're a burden."
But all the other commenters calmly, and systematically, untie that argument and expose all its fallacies.
---
Also, speaking of blogs, posting an entry this close to Christmas, titled "Mary's Child ..." increased traffic to my blog by ten fold in less than twenty-four hours (usually, I get about 2 - 4 hits a day, maybe ten a week, that one post has 38). Most of those hits came from Google searches, so I imagine most of the folks were disappointed at the lack of magi, shepherds, and little boys, and left almost as quickly as they came. ... But I got two new "followers" out of it, so at least some actually read what I wrote...
Yay for the power of cultural zeitgeists?
