Rose, 28, bi, nb. She/her or they/them. Please talk me if there's anything you want me to tag or if you just generally want to talk! This should go without saying but TERFs are not welcome on this planet and definitely not on this blog.
"I'm going to tell you a story with a joke at the end.
"This happened a long long time ago when the gods were little like me. Loki was a little baby. He wanted to go outside but they told him, 'no you are a baby.' He said it was too hot inside, and they said it was too cold to go out.
"He went out anyway and they said 'come inside it's too cold for babies,' but he just climbed a tree and they couldn't reach him. And he swung around from tree to tree like a macaque until he was all nice and cooled off, then he slid down the tree.
"When he gets to the bottom his hands are all full of sap and splinters. So he pulled them all out and put them in the fire, and it made a smell like your smoky stuff, Mama. They opened the window and it wasn't so hot inside anymore. The end."
"And what's the joke, sweetie?"
"Oh! Why did the chicken go to the underworld?"
"Why?"
"TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE!"
(original tale from my kid who is four and apparently knows a secret story about Loki as a child inventing incense. Also that joke slaps.)
R slur is slur . R slur was previously diagnosis , that become slur , because people so violent hate intellectual disability . is insult by compare to intellectual disability , because think intellectual disability worthless .
can not speak for literally all others with intellectual disability , no , but in general from what see and who talk to , very few people with intellectual disability actually want see this word , and often think not even worth take back .
so . be quiet about right to " take back " R slur with autism , with ADHD , with anything other than intellectual disability . many actual people with intellectual disability do not want this word to even exist anymore .
where other groups might have movements to take back words , intellectual disability movement is to remove that word . both movement types can be right - which one work better depend on group - and should respect .
so . honestly , just want people forget word even exist .
it’s sooo funny when rude customers encounter employees who can deny them service for the first time.
i was working at a little cafe where I could deny service over bad behavior, harassment etc. & mask mandates had just ended a week before & already people were being weird about me still wearing mine—an N95, the kind shaped kinda like a duckbill.
so this man walked in, looked at me sooo scathingly, laughed at me, and said “damn. never known a woman to choose…practicality over looks.”
And I just said, “oh. you can go, you’re not getting a drink.” And he said, “what???”
I said, “sir, you just walked in at 6 am & called women impractical and me ugly in one sentence.”
And he was so astonished he didn’t even argue he just turned around and left 💀🙏🏻 it was like he suddenly became self aware
hmmm why does my uterus hurt and why do i feel kinda off. weird. surely these are not the warning symptoms of a predictable biological process that occurs on a regular schedule. anyway. im going to wear white pants today.
Dude it is SO FUN and EXCITING to see a reoccurring reader. If you've commented a handful of times on an author's work, I guarantee that they recognize you. You can't imagine how many times I've excitedly informed my friends "the person with the funny cat image commented!" "- anon is back!!!!" and the friends've recognized who I was talking about because I talk about my commenters so often LOL. We love you all!!!