beeth0ven:

meanexwife:

this is my own personal riot of poorly worded sentiment but the amount of important given to being a Cute Cripple or of An Otherworldly Fae Cripple or whatever is like: cool. you’re still performing and your cat eyeliner isn’t sharp enough to cut a hole through the societal oppressions that hold us hostage either. blue lipstick isn’t revolutionary. contouring isn’t revolutionary even when you do it while using a mobility aid. acting like these things become noteworthy or, fuck me, radically important feels akin to inspiration porn or a cheap way of shouting, “being disabled doesn’t mean you should give up being fuckable!” to the women shoved under the bus

yes!

and also sometimes it’s like, the Cute Cripples get all the attention, and so when people say stuff like this it just comes across as bitter or whatever- but it’s not. it’s a valid point.

plus i feel like, when you’re disabled, there’s already this expectation to perform. you always need to be on your A-game or people don’t treat you like a human being. so couple that with this budding phenomenon of calling fashion forward cripples revolutionary- it just reinforces a bad idea.

theres a subsection of this community that acts like aesthetic is revolutionary- it’s not. that’s never what this has been about. sexy poses on hospital exam tables are not revolutionary because it’s in a hospital. a full face of makeup doesn’t become revolutionary when coupled with a wheelchair.

i feel like it’s similar to weaponized femininity, but worse because disabled people who are “ugly” are genuinely not treated like humans