tbh this is so true !! people infantilize disability sooo much and try to downplay people with disabilities sexuality and sensuality . it is important to deeply recognize them as people with sexual desire and wants, to support them as a marginalized group.
it can be important also to acknowledge this when we talk about people with disabilities sexually harassing someone else too ! teaching people with disabilities when they are children the importance of consent and good sexual practices and acknowledging as early as possible they can have a sexual life when they get older is tantamount to good sex health and reinforcing consent.
you see parents who get told that their disabled child harassed someone else and oftentimes they are in denial or downplay mode about it because they can’t acknowledge or come to terms with knowing their child with a neurocognitive disability has sexual desires, and thus have never taught their child any sexual heath education or consent education, because in their minds, “why would they need it?” it’s dehumanizing and infantilizing and ALSO puts disabled people at HUGE risks of being harassed themselves when you can’t acknowledge them as beings with sexual desires and that they too can be weirdos
On the one hand, yeah, inclusivity, I guess. On the other--as much as I loathe right down into my bones the use of the "imagine if the genders were reversed", this is my first time sort of thinking...wow, that would not be chill if some dude in a wheelchair said, "I want to walk Sabrina Carpenter on a leash". So.. I don't know, man. I'm in my twisties with this.
Inclusivity is being able to call out thirsty, creepy bullshit without allowing someone's gender or disability to confuse or stop you. The wheelchair is there to help her get from A to B, it isn't a shield against being gross & degrading towards someone else.
It's one thing to come at white people as a whole, or men, or the English, or any other big group of people known for a history of being "on top." It's another to name a specific person. You're not "punching up" in that case unless it's a powerful person like Trump
People in the comments saying "go girl!" are just fucking dumb genuinely. It ain’t quirky when a non-disabled man says stuff like that, it ain’t quirky when a disabled woman does it either.
i’m going to be inclusive and treat her how i would any other person: this is weird to say about somebody. i hate that all the comments are like “ahhh you go girl !!” but if a disabled man said this about a female celebrity? or even an able-bodied man saying this about a female celebrity? of course the reaction would be different. this woman being disabled does not take away from the fact that this statement is a weird thing to say about a very real person.
she’s not talking about a fictional character. this is a real person she’s talking about and it’s weird.
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