so, i'm having fits trying to do this right. i've not been able to get this post on to the KosAbility queue qnd just discovered that my groups have disappeared...this may be why. so, as it's time, i'll just publish and hope some techie person can republish it to the group properly. in the meantime i will hang around and hope for conversation.
this is actually an addendum to the ‘real’ kosability post i meant to post this evening:
i was dismayed and a little stunned when in my efforts to send postmodernist and the kosability queue my diary for sunday i accidentally published it on friday instead. i’m new at this and not very literate on my still-pretty-new apple.
i’d worked on that post for weeks, pecking away with one finger as i had hand surgery again in october—which is why caps seem too picky to deal with. we thought we might be able to un-publish it but before i could figure that out a commenter mentioned that it was on community spotlight.
and suddenly, the post was on the rec list. apparently it hit a nerve.
i had an astonishing day yesterday, responding to comments, reading the pain-and-outrage-filled stories of others’ experiences, swearing occasionally at the idiocy and arrogance of a far-flung system that so often presumes to be able to arrogantly ‘fix’ without listening to or trusting the perceptions of the ‘fixees’.
and it is a system, or rather interlocking and mutually reinforcing systems, plural; it is not just a few paternalistic and ignorant male (or wanna-be-male female) docs acting independently out of personal biases.
it is inescapably systemic, including medical models that perpetuate deification of doctors, infantilization of the feminine or people considered abnormal or weak, capitalism, classism, racism…everything in the world of privilege and power seems to be tied together in a seamless net that at one point or another scoops up most of us females and many disadvantaged-less-than-wealthy-straight-abled-other-than-white males and sorts us into hapless piles like thrashing fish, shagalabagala.
clearly, a lot of you are finding your way out of these (orange) tangles, too.