Linkspam: Addressing Mental Health Privilege

[jesse_the_k]

When fandom discussions gets heated, ideas and people are often characterized as "insane" and "craaaazy" and "irrational." As someone with mental health issues, I always notice. On a good day I can ignore it. Many times, these words are hurtful and enraging—which puts me in exactly the wrong state of mind to craft a helpful comment.

So I was very impressed with how noracharles deftly raised the issues with "insane" and "irrational" in toft's "long necks, deep holes" post

toft thoughtfully responds: ableist rhetoric

noracharles continues the discussion: A Clarification for the Privileged

Please drop links to other effective tactics in comments.

Comments

[sasha_feather]

I am finally reading all of these closely; what a great discussion. Also: elf: Sanity, Rationality, and the In and Ir thereof.

[etrangerici]

I found this post through a highly improbable path, but it is extremely interesting to me and just the push I needed to look more at the access_fandom comm. Thanks for posting.