trouble: (Media Conglomerate)trouble ([personal profile] trouble) wrote,
@ 2011-04-20 07:30 pm UTC
Entry tags:!public, angry for a reason, disability
Hey so-called Progressives: Disability is not your fucking punch line and I hate you.

Wherein Wonkette dedicates a whole fucking post to mocking Trig Palin for being "r#tarded", because it's very progressive to mock children with disabilities! Seriously, it's a disgusting article. Read this description at adage instead.

(Oh, but see, they're mocking SARAH PALIN for "using her son as a political prop". Which is why they put up a post that implies that Trig is the product of incest between his father and sister, say that children with intellectual disabilities don't dream, and implied that he was born disabled because his mother drank while she was pregnant. Not, you know, just saying "This shit where Palin uses her son as a political prop is wrong." No no, they're mocking her by making him - and all children with disabilities by extension - the butt of the joke. Ha ha ha ha. ha ha. So creative. Gosh, those progressive sure are on the side of people with disabilities, right?)

And, of course:
Lady Gaga Calls Madonna Plagiarism charges r#tarded.

GOSH I'M SO GLAD THAT I HAVE PROGRESSIVES ON MY SIDE. It's been mere hours since I was last told that ableism wasn't a real thing because people with disabilities are treated with "kid gloves".


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capriuni: Text: "I know where my towel is, But I can't find anything else." (towel)


[personal profile] capriuni
2011-04-21 06:39 am UTC (link)
Well, no. That could just be an indication of our numbers, as a population.

Or maybe "wives" could be a title of rank, like "chairperson" (Ha! chairperson, and cripples... see what happened, there?)

It does kind of remind me of the nursery rhyme: "As I was going to Saint Ives..."

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[personal profile] jackandahat
2011-04-21 06:43 am UTC (link)
Oh good! If someone else wants to have five hundred wives/husbands/penguins, that's all cool, but I don't have the spoons for it!

See, now I'm thinking of organisations where people call each other "sister" and "brother". That always makes me think someone's going to turn around and go "Muuuuum, he's kicking my seat!"

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[personal profile] capriuni
2011-04-21 07:10 am UTC (link)
Heh. And now, suddenly, I've got Woodie Guthrie's song: "Ladies' Auxilary" popping into my head. As I remember my history, he wrote a song for a union (as was his wont). And the union's support organization "Union XYZ's Ladies' Auxilary wanted a song for themselves, too. So he wrote them one.

Here's a YouTube vid, if you can watch it, with illustrative slide show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MufHOoMgja0

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[personal profile] jackandahat
2011-04-21 08:18 am UTC (link)
Ooo, thank you!

(Now I'm wondering what rank "penguins" would be. OK, I really shouldn't be allowed on the net before I've had sugar.)

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[personal profile] capriuni
2011-04-21 04:05 pm UTC (link)
Well, if the penguins are anything like Opus, from the 1980's American comic strip Bloom County, I'd say they'd be staffing the regional campaign headquarters, and knocking on doors for votes, days before the election (I was just Googling for a specific series I remember, but I couldn't find it).

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[personal profile] jackandahat
2011-04-21 04:11 pm UTC (link)
Penguin doorknockers. I like it! I bet they'd be much less likely to be tossed out on the street.

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