Current mood:	horrified
Current music:	Genesis- "Land of Confusion"
Entry tags:	ablism, disability rights, sterilization

Possibly the Most Disturbing Thing I've Ever Heard
So much for posting an entry per day for every day of October, apparently. (Not that the reason I'd chosen for doing so, as currently practiced, was really all that great in the first place.) Between a bit of a flail-y "oh my god, I have readers! reaction to receiving my first comments at this journal, strong emotional responses to things going on in the blogosphere right now, and various issues in real life, that kind of intensive posting schedule is just not sustainable for me at the moment.

Since the initial news about Katie Thorpe broke, I've been seeking out and reading a lot of posts both in reaction to her case, and older responses to Ashley X... and outside of the disability rights posters (and not even all of them), there's a whole lot of really ugly ideas being voiced. Even though I went into this expecting nothing less, the sheer breadth and depth and vileness of what I've been seeing is still painful.

And even then, some things stand out as especially awful. The fact that I could come across this quote AT ALL (let alone on a liberal, progressive blog, let alone without a single person voicing disagreement):

"Amanda's thread also had a poster who suggested that disabled people should have been involved in the decision-making process, which really creeps me out."

...I just can't even begin to format a coherent response to that emotionally, let alone rationally or verbally.