I don't know if I'll ever truly expect that Feministing will get it when it comes to disability and ableism issues, but some of the language in this post is simply appalling:
If having my car door opened makes me feel like lover man thinks I'm an invalid, not so feminist.
Yeah.
Therefore, I enthusiastically endorse and co-sign meloukhia's Open Letter to Feministing, because the Feministing bloggers' and commenters' fashionable ableism, along with the seemingly tacit refusal to cover disability issues (except for when, as Amandaw points out, a disability issue is connected with reproductive rights in some way), are not new things.
Feminists with disabilities are people too, bloggers and commenters of Feministing.
This is why I don't read your site, and will continue not to until you do something about this problem. I mean, really, Feministing crew--it's time to get out of your incredibly privileged bubble and acknowledge that disability and ableism ARE feminist issues, and that the current way in which you treat feminist disability issues (see what I did there?) needs improvement.
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...that *they are the problem*. Not even just "not helping fix the problem." ARE THE PROBLEM.
I will sign that, definitely. I've had so many issues with things at Feministing that I avoid them if I can.
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