Tag: condescension

heavyweightheart:

poor people on SNAP or other benefits do not need “healthy eating” rules imposed on them. restricting their food choices doesn’t make them healthier. when we limit what they can buy we limit their access to sufficient calories. “junk food” is dense with calories and provides efficient energy for the body. fruits and vegetables contribute little to meeting total energy needs and their nutritional content isn’t very beneficial when overall calorie intake is too low. 

poor people don’t need food rules imposed from on high, they need ENOUGH food and they need regular access to it. i’m so done with these tepid takes (cc: pbs, npr and other liberal media) on getting poor people to eat “healthier” as though that were some kind of anti-oppressive stance… it’s not! are we willing to do what it takes to make all people food-secure, with regular access to enough food that they want and enjoy? that’s the only thing worth talking about

If only poor people understood nutrition!

FUN FACT

myceliorum:

transgenderpsiioniic:

livebloggingmydescentintomadness:

livebloggingmydescentintomadness:

some people who are ill and/or disabled CANNOT DO WHATEVER THEY SET THEIR MIND ON! some people are LIMITED by their bodies and their health and they are UNABLE to “"just choose”“ to do something! you can’t STOP being disabled by DECIDING to have a ”“good attitude”“! I am PREVENTED from doing whatever I want because I am D I S A B L E D!! 

I would super appreciate it if healthy/abled people reblogged this post, because when people say these things it is so harmful to disabled, chronically ill, and mentally ill people

also! saying “I can’t do this because im disabled” is NOT “negative self-talk” or a “bad attitude”!!

Also it is not your job to “encourage independence” by randomly withholding support because you think that’s all it’ll take to make us able to do the thing. And if we do the thing once under pressure it doesn’t mean “progress” or that we can always do the thing. And the whole attitude behind treating us this way, the fear that helping us will “make us dependent” or make us too lazy to do anything for ourselves ever again? Patronizing, paternalistic, deeply fucking ableist.

I was once so sick (pneumonia complicated by other things) I shat the bed, and nurses at the hospital said to each others that because I had a developmental disability then I couldn’t be allowed to continue doing this or I would never want time use a toilet again. I had actually exhausted myself so badly trying to get to the bedside commode and back that I’d collapsed.

So yeah some people will actually take that prejudice that far. But milder examples are terrible too. Just this whole idea that we need to be pushed because we’d never want to be “independent” otherwise, it’s really condescending and I’ve seen it taken to extremes that reached the point of abuse and neglect.