Amazing stuff:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54838201
I didn't even know this had been coined as a term!
"The Witches star Anne Hathaway has promised to "do better" following the criticism the film has received for its portrayal of limb difference.
The actress acknowledged that many people "are in pain" over the way her Grand High Witch character is depicted."
Isn't that nice.
Who should Kuato apologize to?
https://tenor.com/view/kuato-total-recall-scary-gif-13933098
honestly promising to "do better" sounds kinda smug to me LOL
kind of a humbled Draco Malfoy response
The hell is limb difference? Do you mean a cripple?
shareLol okay, im not one for pushing culturally polite terms, but the word cripple has been kinda fucked up for years. Even as a kid in the 80's, it wasn't cool to call someone a cripple.
shareI don't see why. A cripple is someone who is crippled. Perfectly valid word. Disabled or handicapped instead is fine. Sounds nicer, I guess, doesn't mean anything different. But "limb difference", FFS...
shareAsk yourself, if your child brought home a little friend who was missing say an arm. Would you ever in a million years ask them, "so how long have you been a cripple"?
Pretty sure that exchange results in a hurt kid, an angry phone call from a parent, a punch from a parent, or maybe all three.
Sure, but only because someone has told them they should feel bad if they heard it. If I had brought a friend like that to my grandparents house when I was a kid, my grandmother might have asked how they became crippled. And not meaning to be disparaging at all, that was just the word. For some reason they have to keep changing when everyone knows they mean the same damn thing. If crippled falls out of fashion for handicapped and handicapped falls out of fashion for "differently-abled" or "differently limbed" as being discussed here, you can bet in 10 years someone will decide that is offensive and there will be an even longer more tortured term to show how progressive one is.
share"So how long have you been differently limbed"?
Would that be better?
'But "limb difference", FFS...'
I often wonder who actually comes up with these terms. I mean, are they imortalised in some register somewhere?
This has to be one of the most stupid things I have ever heard. People are way too uptight and whine about everything now. Ugh.
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