Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Twofer

I was only looking up the first story, but the second one came up underneath...Well, why not check that one out too?

"I’m a wheelchair user: a visibly, physically disabled woman. And my wheelchair acts as a strange sort of forcefield. People register 'disabled' before they register 'woman' and the former always overrides the latter, because in our ableist society, a disabled body is necessarily a desexualized one."

http://www.theestablishment.co/2016/01/26/nobody-catcalls-the-woman-in-the-wheelchair/

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"When you get down to it, Drake is like a lot of men, in that he has a hard time seeing women as the main characters in their own story, as opposed to being minor characters in his."

http://www.theestablishment.co/2015/11/27/the-problem-with-drake-problem-with-women/

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