Comments on: Recommended Reading for October 13, 2009 http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/13/recommended-reading-for-october-13-2009/ FWD (feminists with disabilities) for a way forward Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:29:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: OuyangDan http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/13/recommended-reading-for-october-13-2009/#comment-150 OuyangDan Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:11:59 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=447#comment-150 No, I'm w/ ya, amandaw. Using "females" as a noun is dehumanizing. It was a hard one for me to shake when I left the military. Hmm...wonder why they use it... .-= OuyangDan´s last blog ..<a href="http://randombabble.com/2009/10/13/this-moments-wtf/" rel="nofollow">This Moment’s WTF?</a> =-. No, I’m w/ ya, amandaw. Using “females” as a noun is dehumanizing. It was a hard one for me to shake when I left the military. Hmm…wonder why they use it…
.-= OuyangDan´s last blog ..This Moment’s WTF? =-.

]]> By: Anna http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/13/recommended-reading-for-october-13-2009/#comment-142 Anna Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:11:11 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=447#comment-142 I'm assured on a regular basis that no one sterilizes people with disabilities anymore. The people who tell me this tend not to be very knowledgeable about disabilities, but they're quite firm in their belief anyway. .-= Anna´s last blog ..<a href="http://trouble.dreamwidth.org/525231.html" rel="nofollow">I has a cell phone. Please let me tell you all about my new cell phone!</a> =-. I’m assured on a regular basis that no one sterilizes people with disabilities anymore.

The people who tell me this tend not to be very knowledgeable about disabilities, but they’re quite firm in their belief anyway.
.-= Anna´s last blog ..I has a cell phone. Please let me tell you all about my new cell phone! =-.

]]> By: amandaw http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/13/recommended-reading-for-october-13-2009/#comment-141 amandaw Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:07:18 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=447#comment-141 It might seem small, but using "females" as a noun really makes me uncomfortable. A lot of what is acceptable language in the medical field is also very dehumanizing. It might seem small, but using “females” as a noun really makes me uncomfortable. A lot of what is acceptable language in the medical field is also very dehumanizing.

]]> By: dreamingcrow http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/13/recommended-reading-for-october-13-2009/#comment-132 dreamingcrow Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:22:05 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=447#comment-132 The late Dr. Gunther, author of the original paper on the Ashley Treatment, was my sons' endocrinologist for years. When I found out about it, I was horrified. I still am. The doctors who insist that this is a new, helpful thing, appall me. It's just a return to old policies that have been considered dehumanizing and WRONG for a couple of decades. What the hell? The late Dr. Gunther, author of the original paper on the Ashley Treatment, was my sons’ endocrinologist for years. When I found out about it, I was horrified. I still am. The doctors who insist that this is a new, helpful thing, appall me. It’s just a return to old policies that have been considered dehumanizing and WRONG for a couple of decades. What the hell?

]]> By: Matthew Smith http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/10/13/recommended-reading-for-october-13-2009/#comment-125 Matthew Smith Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:56:47 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=447#comment-125 The "Ashley treatment" is a huge slippery slope, and once they can do it to mentally impaired females they will start on physically disabled ones. In Australia, hysterectomies of adolescent girls with disabilities were common well into the 1980s and, as I said on my own blog when this became news, there was a case of a girl with cerebral palsy who is in her late 20s or early 30s now who had a hysterectomy when she was 14, at her parents' direction and without her consent. She is not mentally impaired. They will, of course, not do this to mentally impaired boys, despite the fact that they will most likely be bigger and more difficult to care for than the girls; perhaps this is because the male doctors realise how they'd feel if that happened to them. Ovaries, of course, are perceived as internal organs which can be removed if they cause a bit of bother. The “Ashley treatment” is a huge slippery slope, and once they can do it to mentally impaired females they will start on physically disabled ones. In Australia, hysterectomies of adolescent girls with disabilities were common well into the 1980s and, as I said on my own blog when this became news, there was a case of a girl with cerebral palsy who is in her late 20s or early 30s now who had a hysterectomy when she was 14, at her parents’ direction and without her consent. She is not mentally impaired. They will, of course, not do this to mentally impaired boys, despite the fact that they will most likely be bigger and more difficult to care for than the girls; perhaps this is because the male doctors realise how they’d feel if that happened to them. Ovaries, of course, are perceived as internal organs which can be removed if they cause a bit of bother.

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