{"id":2407,"date":"2012-06-27T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2015-07-15T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T15:54:15","slug":"no-you-cant-use-that-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/06\/27\/no-you-cant-use-that-word\/","title":{"rendered":"No! You can’t use that word!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you have body integrity identity disorder?<\/a> Well, that’s neither here nor there, since I really don’t care about your BIID.<\/p>\n

I do care, however, when you start calling yourselves “transabled”<\/a> and organizing your whole identities around the supposition that your experiences are analogous to those of people who are trans or who have disabilities.<\/p>\n

First of all, you don’t get to use the word “transabled.” By doing so, you appropriate the terminology of the trans rights movement and disability rights movement. You dismiss the lived experiences and struggles of trans and\/or disabled people by using their vocabulary as your metaphor. You’re therefore objectifying and dehumanizing trans and\/or disabled people. You’re perpetuating discrimination and prejudice against these populations. Go find your own terms.<\/p>\n

Second of all, neither do you get to claim that your oppression is like that of trans and\/or disabled people. When you are murdered for your state of being and society finds your killer[s] understandable, justifiable, sympathetic and symptomatic of an entire social program that dehumanizes people like you with the goal of eliminating them, then we might be able to talk. Otherwise, you need to understand that being different does not axiomatically entail being oppressed.<\/p>\n

[Prompted by a similar takedown<\/a> on Womanist Musings.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you have body integrity identity disorder? Well, that’s neither here nor there, since I really don’t care about your BIID. I do care, however, when you start calling yourselves “transabled” and organizing your whole identities around the supposition that your experiences are analogous to those of people who are trans or who have disabilities.… Continue reading No! You can’t use that word!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[667,647,679,639],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ableism","tag-people-with-disabilities","tag-stupid-cis-people","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5312,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions\/5312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}