Guest post on Shakesville

[soc_puppet]

For those of you looking forward to it, I am happy to announce that I now have a guest post up on Shakesville about that horrendous female character flowchart from last week. It can be found here: The Solution Is Obviously to Write No More Female Characters at All

It's got a number of great links of its own, and is almost certain to have some great commentary. It may even help spread the issue a bit more (hope, hope).


On a somewhat related note, Privilege Is: Being able to walk down two flights of stairs and one block uphill to a public facility to use the restroom, and back, when the water is turned off for maintenance in one's apartment.

Comments

[redsixwing]

I quite liked your article, but have nothing intelligent to say in comments. So: go you!

[soc_puppet]

Thank you \o/ I am quite pleased with myself :)

[inarticulate]

I can't say much at the moment, but I will say: thank you ♥

[soc_puppet]

Happy to help ^_^

[cookinguptales.livejournal.com]

When I was in NYC's airport, they had the handicapped accessible toilets closed in two terminals (..JUST the h/c stalls) and after I'd been searching for a half hour, I finally found one...that had a goddamn step. Just the h/c one. Not the normal bathroom. It was in a separate room. With a 2 inch step. That doesn't sound like much, but it's not exactly easy in a wheelchair. :/ ESPECIALLY WHEN YOUR BLADDER IS SUPER FULL BECAUSE YOU HAD TO LOOK FOR A TOILET FOR A HALF HOUR. :||||

...also, there was a Strawberry Shortcake cosplayer I gave the evil eye to for most of the con because she decided that the h/c stall on the showfloor was really a changing room.

...and don't even get me STARTED on trying to find a h/c toilet when wandering around NYC.

and just for h/c accessible shittiness, the biggest comic shop in NYC, which I attempted to visit, has...steps. and no elevator. I was instructed to go to their h/c accessible location across town. It was a third the size. GJ.

It was to the point where I was almost wishing that I'd just brought my cane, even if I would've been puking by the end of the first day.

[soc_puppet]

...Handicapped accessible toilet with a step. What the ever loving fuck! Outrage, it is stealing my words >_<

*facepalm* I'd like to say for sure that we have something set up for that sort of thing at AI, but I'm not 100% positive. I know there was talk about it - having a little curtained-off area in Cosplay Central for people to change, for example, though we'd have to close it when we started preparing for the on-stage event - but come the fuck on! Even if that idea never went through, IT'S STILL BASIC POLITENESS, PEOPLE. *flails angrily*

I wish access weren't so goddamn shitty so many places - especially the cool places :(

[cookinguptales.livejournal.com]

I had to have my dad push me over the step. This was just the first in the long list of 'Sarah's adventures in ill-conceived h/c bathrooms'. I particularly liked the one that was too small for my wheelchair to get all the way in and get the door closed, even when the foot rests are disassembled and the wheels are tucked under the toilet. Did not end well.

Back when I didn't use a cane or a wheelchair, I changed in the normal stalls several times. And I am fat. There is really no reason to use the h/c stall except for special snowflake-ism. Especially because I'm relatively sure that there was a changing room somewhere.

Ugh, IKR? It was awful at the con (all of the people working there were so nice and helpful, don't get me wrong) because about half of the elevators had the con floor disabled. I'm dead serious. Sometimes it would take a half hour of trying various elevators before finding one that would take me to the third floor. And ironically, the least accessible booth (other than the infuriating Animal Planet one, but I don't even want to go there) was the DC one. You know, the one that had the Gail Simone signing. The Gail Simone that writes one of the only wheelchair users in comics. All of the tables were so high I couldn't see what was on them, and the carpet was basically impossible for me to move on myself. Even when I had someone pushing me, he really had to put his back into it.

*bitch bitch bitch* I hate it when people say that society disables them, not their body--because my body is a sonuvabitch and it absolutely is the problem--but I've gotta say that society could make this a hell of a lot easier.

[lightbird777.livejournal.com]

I read your post on Shakesville and commented. Great job!

[soc_puppet]

Thank you ^__^ I am quite pleased to have a new guest post up myself ♥

[op-longshot.livejournal.com]

(oh hi I still have you friendslisted even though I don't check LJ as much as I used to)

Ta on contributing to the derailing of that chart. I have friends who I won't even link it to in order to avoid listening to them ranting for hours. Now that I see your responses and those of others, though, I can at least show my friends those.

(On entirely unrelated note, have you managed to get KH Birth by Sleep yet? It's fantastic.)

[soc_puppet]

Thanks :) I always feel pretty good about ranting in chorus with others ;)

(No, alas, I have not :( I'm a bit strapped for cash at the moment. Perhaps a search for cutscenes is in order...)