RE: https://blorbo.social/@californiummm/116268955617459029

news at eleven:

white abled man thinks posting an anecdote of lifting a woman who used a wheelchair into a gyn chair is something appropriate to write an anecdote about on the internet.

click through to my post and scroll up one.

#AbledPeople #EverydayAbleism #Disabled #Disability #HegemonicMajority #MalePrivilege #MenSuck #WhyDoAbledPeople

This is in the context of Stranger Things, but no spoilers whatsoever.

So Stranger Things made headlines in past years for its thorough and sometimes gross-out closed captions.

I've been watching S5 and haven't seen any of that. Not only that, but no other cues like "[door slams]" or "[gasps]" or "[haunting choral music]."

Apparently, Netflix started rolling out a "feature" last Spring that in shows going forward, choosing "English" subtitles shows only the dialogue. You have to pick "English [CC]" to get the audio cues as well.

I'm honestly not sure who is served by the former who wouldn't be at least as well served by the latter. But the fuckers seem to have defaulted things to the one without audio cues--i.e., the least accessible thing they could have done. As well as undercutting and concealing the hard work of the sound designers.

Fuck the hard-of-hearing, I guess.

#accessibility #ClosedCaptions #subtitles #Netflix #SoundDesign #StrangerThings #EverydayAbleism

happy to see that the Betazed sign language on #StarTrekAcademy is basically standard ASL, with a few stylistic choices in the sign to look more… poetic? anyway, I wish that they'd kept the sign language more in view of the camera.

another thing I wonder is did they cast and hire an actually Deaf/hard of hearing actor for the Betazed president? because if not, I don't like the affected Deaf accent when at the end of the episode he takes off the little interpreter doohickey and voices for himself to say yes.

I mean I really don't like that particular kind of plot device in the first place because it devalues signed languages and places excessive value on voicing, and that people will voice when it becomes important. it leads people to expect voicing from people who sign when it becomes important enough, which is a harmful expectation for #Deaf people to face and a great example of #EverydayAbleism that #Disabled people face on the daily.

Spouse's textbook: "[...]decreased symptoms of psychosomatic illnesses such as asthma and anorexia[...]" [cites: Minuchin, Rosman, & Baker, "Psychosomatic Families: Anorexia Nervosa in Context", 1978"]

Me: ....exsqueeze??? asthma? Psychosomatic?? Also why is a textbook for *2* classes in 2025 citing a study from *1978*?

Spouse: I think [this textbook] is used for a few other classes too.

Me: B r u h.

(Spouse supplied images from their textbook. You're all welcome.)

#thefuck #college #collegeisastupidconcept #everydayableism #smfh