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I know.👍

she didn’t even get fired lol, she tried to get fired repeatedly so she could become a martyr but much to her obvious annoyance the university kept backing her until she left voluntarily to join the Bari Weiss Extremely Real and Serious University

not even necessarily disability, like what if they just want to use one? what's the problem?

fuck this ableist prick. one thing that sets me off so bad is being accused of faking symptoms/severity! these ignorant assholes would crumble instantly if they had to endure any of the pain they claim isn't real.

Remembering when I used a cane to walk and take the bus at 24 and people treating me like I was faking it. It was undiagnosed blood cancer, btw.

I doubt "social contagion” actually exists. People believe in "social contagion” because they are surrounded by other people who believe "social contagion” is real.

NGL I think people of all genders and whatnot should carry walking sticks, as they are a fashionable accessory for the sapient about town and useful when set upon by ruffians.

Next week by Kathleen Stock: how women with depressions should just get their stuff together and stop seeking for attention… /s 🙄😑🫩

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Yes. I’m in favour of anything which increases the possibility I might someday get into a homoerotic lesbian sword fight. I mean, I’d lose, but that’s half the fun.

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Is this a stock media format for arseholes? Pictured in a circular frame, ridiculously stupid headline, lame "explanation" of their assertion.

Observable facts that there are no green dogs refutes your argument. Let's just face it: you don't like Kathleen Stock because she challenges your woke self righteousness.

Okay, but like, why does this person care if people have walking sticks? Aside from the arrogance of assuming people are adopting maladies to be trendy, it's not your business! Why do they even think they have any business talking about what objects people choose to hold in public?!

Shocking to learn that a prominent terf also has grotesque opinions about disability

I use a stick occasionally due to a sciatica... nothing fucking social about it. Why do they hate minorities so much.

both are bioessentialist and both absolutely despise women so it's no wonder they use the same language

I’m currently watching my way through Next Generation Season 1 for the first time and aaaaaaaaaagh the early Ferengi are so very cringe

My brain takes a different direction.

This happened a while ago, and it brought 'Star Trek' to mind. Sometimes people say or do things that make you wonder. bsky.app/profile/meow...

Saved for future use!

I’ve never been aware of this woman until now and upon first viewing of her headshot all I can think of is the word POMPOUS

Trans people been warning y'all about this. They won't stop with us. Their eugenicist pogroms will continue apace. We were the proverbial canary and society sacrificed us to the mine

If I were a woman I’d never leave the house without a stick of some kind if only for self defense

It was then incorporated via Freud's Massenpsychologie un Ich-analyse in the tradition of social psychology. It's refreshing that these people use the theoretical instruments of reactionary conservatism. It just seems to make everything tidier.

is social contagion why she looks like jordan peterson?

Honestly fuck the haters, as much as they try to deny it, at least there’s media representation now in series like Berry & Caprice For so many women in my generation the body rly has been keeping score

And YOU'RE a social contagion and YOU'RE a social contagion and YOU'RE a social contagion. Social contagion thinking is the true social contagion. Shlock Stock with no smoking barrels.

To hate on your fellow human is just disgusting.

🙄🙄🙄 How about “none of your business”? 😡

For cracking balls open like little tiny soft baby coconuts, next.

Anyone have a link to non-paywalled text of this? I want to dismiss it but want read it first.

why are adult men walking around with shooty sticks

Cripes. Maybe you should’ve got one with spikes on!

Let’s presume for one moment the premise: that some ARE using these because they like how they look or because they’ve convinced themselves they function better with them. So what? Is anyone worse off because of it? Did anyone decry rich old guys using walking sticks as a fashion statement?

There was an ACTUAL contagion that crippled a lot of young people roughly 6 years ago, but sure, let's blame peer pressure.

It is also BS. Women are more likely to have an unmet need to use walking aids and over 8 years that has increased. So any percieved 'increase' is likely to be a closing of the gender gap. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

It's a better workout! www.health.harvard.edu/exercise-and...

Growing up steeped in eugenicist thought …

I had a friend in college who was in a HORRIFIC car accident and she used a cane. She "pimped it out" (her words) put lights on it. Stickers. Tinsel. Tassels. It was really something!

I use two canes, and they have lanyards that attach to my wrists, which means my hands are always available without dropping them. I also have a backpack for carrying things longer distances because you can't carry a bag in your hand with a cane on your wrist.

I'm EAGERLY awaiting my rollator getting insurance approval. It will let me participate in life so much more!

It took much persuasion from my then boyfriend (now spouse) to start using a wheelchair rather than…just not going out because I couldn’t walk far enough - because of this sort of ridiculous guilt induced “I’m not *that* sick” thinking. I’m *glad* if young people now don’t deal with those feelings.

I am not young, but not a senior. As soon as I figured out I could reduce my pain & get out more I bought a rolling briefcase and a bright-colored cane.

...don't even know WHY we're having this cataclysmic uptick in autoimmune disorders, there's all manner of hypotheses posed for why and how it's happening from PFAs to microplastics to "too much hygiene", but only doctors and disabled people shriek about this, not governments and politicians.

It's very much a side point to the boorish ableism, but if some women do happen to be using walking canes as accessories, who could possibly care? Men did that for literally centuries

Social contagion theory is horse shit.

And, my God, aren't there enough things to be concerned about in this world: like starving children, wars, famines, pandemics, etc., to even waste one second on people wanting or needing walking sticks?

(not popular with the kids)

And good grief "Gen Z females" like they were talking about livestock.

i'm afab and don't pass as masc and keep getting made fun of by boomers on the bus for needing a stick so i have teeth in this but, a disproportionate amount of people think i should break kathleen stock's neck with my reinforced cane /jkflr

They sure like the word "contagion", it allows them to talk about whole demographic groups as if they were diseases

As someone with a female friend that has to use a cane due to a plethora of health issues (half of which she didn't even start life with), "hot takes" like this are why we need laws on equality in the first place. When dense people try to make their opinions the "default", the system stops working.

Or trans children

“I’m an out of touch white lady who thinks black pepper is too spicy. My opinion on how you exist in the world is vitally important.”

We can’t ostracize disabled people into ‘just dealing with it’ til they end up in a shallow grave anymore. Because of woke.

Before I even considered the health-related realities, my first thought was that women were using walking sticks as self-defense against potential assault. My response was to nod & think, "That makes sense. Good on 'em." Which is a long way of saying "Fuck Kathleen Stock."

Mass media was a mistake, it should be destroyed.

So, my daughter should just take her chances on face planting the pavement due to the risk of ankle, knee, or hip subluxation? Is Stock now trying to exclude disabled women from society along with trans and gender non-conforming women? For a feminist she seems very committed to the "male gaze."

Young men tho, perfectly normal to use a walking stick, Stock only notices somethin wrong when young women do it.

Anyone who has had to navigate NHS neuro/physio services as a young person will know how bad it is (poor practice, bad diagnostics, not enough doctors, general prejudice against young/women). It’s not a surprise that more yng people are visibly disabled as a result - and it’s not in their head

I do hope no one thinks of using their walking stick to trip up a terf

The "social contagion" of... falling?

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transmisogyny is a type of misogyny, so it’s never particularly surprising to me when people like Stock start to turn their misogyny on other groups of women (young and disabled ones here).

Contempt for women has many manifestations

I really do wish that it was the case, however considering how many of the examples of young people speaking about disability and visibility are non binary or transmasc im about 90% sure i know who that sack of bones is referring to when she says “females” so, i guess shes trying the other flavor.

Probably self protection from the fucking patriarchy that boomers voted for. Just a hunch.

The crazy thing about mobility aids is that you don't need a reason to use one, and you don't need to tell anyone why! Hope this helps you old ghoul!

Catholics are much the same its not one denomination or even one faith. Most modern religions are designed to punish and keep women down

If there is a Hell, John Calvin is burning in it. Not because it was preordained, but for his worldly acts and his malign effect on world history.

My wife (serious traumatic bike crash 4 years ago) gets the same. ‘Oh, aren’t you fully recovered yet?’ Drives me mad but she’s amazingly tolerant of it.

That is exactly what they want. Because deep down, they know that they too could be hit by a car at any time. It is difficult to face the reality that we have no control over sudden, life-altering events like that. I’m sorry you have to deal with people’s denial on top of your disability.

Don't "reassure" When our son was 1yo we transited through an Asian airport My wife's a badass paraplegic Their version of TSA lady asked her Can you walk? No Can you stand? No With a cane? No A walker? No Does anything work? She put her chin on the baby's head and deadpanned: *Some* things work

But when there are signs, people feel justified in interrogating you about it. There's absolutely no way to win.

"Get better soon!" are words that people dish out whenever there's any complaint of illness or injury. Works great for temporary illnesses or injuries but when there's no cure? Not so much.

They would have us believe that this trend of upper lip stiffness represents a a legitimate condition, but I suspect that it, too, is a social contagion.

‘Vague syndromes’ is a helpful intervention from a clear expert in science and health.

The focus on young women is probably just that women are not falling for macho bullshit, and men still choose suffering.

I now want all women to get walking sticks. Call it Gandalfmaxxing. Make it go viral.

Is this being ableist the new "feminism"?

An absolute ghoul.

Here's a better headline : "Why can't Kathleen Stock mind her own fucking business?"

old media fossils confused and worried because the youths don't write letters to the editor and opinion column op-eds to discuss culture like they do so clearly this new fad came out of nowhere

Kinda seems like we should be assessing whether there was something different with that gen that might lead to increased mobility issues (*cough COVID cough*), but meanwhile let's pretend it's a fad. So what? Why high heels? Why Axe body spray (ye gods, WHY)? Why any fad? SOCIAL CONTAGION! 🙄

Well it's definitely not the bears.

If there is such a thing as social contagion then Stock should take a good long look at her own transphobia and its origins

We're well within living memory of Ugly Laws.

Your story is very much like my daughter’s experience. She’s just had her 3rd laparoscopy for endo. Her cane helps her walk. Hard to understand how her cruelty and inhumanity can be platformed and promoted

Bring back Edwardian times!

I have multiple sclerosis and have had it since I was 28. One stranger actually said "you're too young for that cane, are you need it?"

Kathleen Stock, yesterday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWe2...

I hurt my foot like 15 years ago & had to spend 3 months using a cane, & it wss wild how many people would come up to me to tell me "You're too young to use a cane". Like I am sorry, I didn't accidents where reserved only for the old.

who? A lot of people will tell you about the person who can work but is faking it to get disability. They dont even know the person's name, but they have deep insight into their health status

Does this person still believe a woman's Uterus will fall out of a woman at the drop of a hat?

Social Contagion hmmmmmmm, weird how they keep using the same fear mongering for different marginalized groups. Who else does she hate?