#everydayableism — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://blorbo.social/@californiummm/116268955617459029

news at eleven:

--white-- beige abled man thinks posting an anecdote of lifting a woman who used a wheelchair into a gyn chair is something appropriate to write an anecdote about on the internet.

click through to my post and scroll up one. his profile says he likes being wrong because it means he learns something, so let's see if he learns from this.

edit: why the fuck, if he's not "sensationalising" it, did he bother to mention the speculum. entirely not important detail. he already said pelvic exam. let that be enough.

#AbledPeople #EverydayAbleism #Disabled #Disability #Gynecology #HegemonicMajority #MalePrivilege #MenSuck #OBGYN #WhyDoAbledPeople

RE: https://blorbo.social/@californiummm/116268955617459029

news at eleven:

--white-- beige abled man thinks posting an anecdote of lifting a woman who used a wheelchair into a gyn chair is something appropriate to write an anecdote about on the internet.

click through to my post and scroll up one. his profile says he likes being wrong because it means he learns something, so let's see if he learns from this.

edit: why the fuck, if he's not "sensationalising" it, did he bother to mention the speculum. entirely not important detail. he already said pelvic exam. let that be enough.

#AbledPeople #EverydayAbleism #Disabled #Disability #Gynecology #HegemonicMajority #MalePrivilege #MenSuck #OBGYN #WhyDoAbledPeople

RE: https://blorbo.social/@californiummm/116268955617459029

news at eleven:

white abled man thinks posting an anecdote of lifting a woman who used a wheelchair into a gyn chair is something appropriate to write an anecdote about on the internet.

click through to my post and scroll up one.

#AbledPeople #EverydayAbleism #Disabled #Disability #HegemonicMajority #MalePrivilege #MenSuck #WhyDoAbledPeople

This is in the context of Stranger Things, but no spoilers whatsoever.

So Stranger Things made headlines in past years for its thorough and sometimes gross-out closed captions.

I've been watching S5 and haven't seen any of that. Not only that, but no other cues like "[door slams]" or "[gasps]" or "[haunting choral music]."

Apparently, Netflix started rolling out a "feature" last Spring that in shows going forward, choosing "English" subtitles shows only the dialogue. You have to pick "English [CC]" to get the audio cues as well.

I'm honestly not sure who is served by the former who wouldn't be at least as well served by the latter. But the fuckers seem to have defaulted things to the one without audio cues--i.e., the least accessible thing they could have done. As well as undercutting and concealing the hard work of the sound designers.

Fuck the hard-of-hearing, I guess.

#accessibility #ClosedCaptions #subtitles #Netflix #SoundDesign #StrangerThings #EverydayAbleism

Spouse's textbook: "[...]decreased symptoms of psychosomatic illnesses such as asthma and anorexia[...]" [cites: Minuchin, Rosman, & Baker, "Psychosomatic Families: Anorexia Nervosa in Context", 1978"]

Me: ....exsqueeze??? asthma? Psychosomatic?? Also why is a textbook for *2* classes in 2025 citing a study from *1978*?

Spouse: I think [this textbook] is used for a few other classes too.

Me: B r u h.

(Spouse supplied images from their textbook. You're all welcome.)

#thefuck #college #collegeisastupidconcept #everydayableism #smfh