Cranky Texty is Cranky

[textualdeviance]

Very little will set me off faster than some ignorant douchehead spewing off about how everyone with a chronic illness or disability clearly brought it on themselves and thus should have to suffer or pay more for health care or whatever. Apparently no one in the world was ever born with a gene for cystic fibrosis or lupus or MS. Nope. They all caused it to happen by... Oh, drinking donut-flavored baby formula or lazing around in their cribs playing video games or something.

I don't wish illness on anyone, but in cases like these, I'm sorely tempted to believe in the Divine long enough to ask it to please give these asshats a raging case of ALS. Or at least chronic hemorrhoids.

(The other thing annoying today is entitled white guys whining about how their rights are being trampled on because they're "not allowed" to treat women, queer folk and PoCs like crap. Awww. Poor babies. They're like spoiled little brats who have been given a new toy every week and then throw a righteous fit when mummy skips a week to spend the money on charity or something. OMG, how dare other people ask to be respected as human beings?! Sigh...)

Must be time to step away from the computer for a while.

Comments

[ex-sporknin.livejournal.com]

May I just say, on behalf of both myself and Jake:

[falcongirl.livejournal.com]

"The other thing annoying today is entitled white guys whining about how their rights are being trampled on because they're "not allowed" to treat women, queer folk and PoCs like crap."

They're allowed to act however they choose. There are just consequences to those actions. Positive actions, positive consequences. Negative actions, negative consequences. TANSTAAFL, baby.

.. what's a PoC?
-T

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

Yup!

And PoC = Person of Color.

[falcongirl.livejournal.com]

I laugh every time I see "of color". It makes me think, "Which colour? Purple? Teal?"
-T

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

Heh. In this case, it's generally, "Not pink." ;)

[sky-mapping.livejournal.com]

I absolutely hear you loud and clear. I have bipolar and when people make comments here and in RL about how its "those bipolars" who always end up killing thier entire family I freak. I try so hard in my day to day life to remain well, functional, and a contributing member of society. Stigma in any form is such an ugly and backwards thing. I also work in a fellowship for the Governors Commission on Disabilities and you would not even believe some of the shit we hear there about how some of the disabled population is treated!

[pixxelpuss.livejournal.com]

Today I had to listen to some idiot explain how the Canadian health care system is totally broken, and how she shouldn't have to pay for other people's health care and how she already resents her money going to pay for medicare and medicaid. She thinks that all poor people are poor because they're lazy, and doesn't seem to grasp the fact that every society needs people to do low level jobs.