How are you supposed to warn for it when it would never occur to you that such a thing needed to be warned for?
Are you telling me I should warn in my fics for "ableism" at all times just in case, even if they're not ableist at all IMO, just so people won't complain? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of labeling them at all?
I don't understand how I should label or warn for something that seems so thematically nebulous. Like, I still don't understand what's considered ableist by your standards, beyond the obvious of calling Charles a "cripple" or what have you. I also don't see how expressing sadness he got SHOT IN THE SPINE is ableist. Are fics where Erik cries over his hospital bed because he's paralyzed ableist? Anything that expresses a negative emotion toward that event?
I'm just very confused, and frustrated that you seem to be acting like this is an obvious and simple task for us writers, when clearly, judging from the above complaints, it is neither.
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Date: 2011-06-19 01:05 am (UTC)Are you telling me I should warn in my fics for "ableism" at all times just in case, even if they're not ableist at all IMO, just so people won't complain? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of labeling them at all?
I don't understand how I should label or warn for something that seems so thematically nebulous. Like, I still don't understand what's considered ableist by your standards, beyond the obvious of calling Charles a "cripple" or what have you. I also don't see how expressing sadness he got SHOT IN THE SPINE is ableist. Are fics where Erik cries over his hospital bed because he's paralyzed ableist? Anything that expresses a negative emotion toward that event?
I'm just very confused, and frustrated that you seem to be acting like this is an obvious and simple task for us writers, when clearly, judging from the above complaints, it is neither.