Oh for decency's sake, failblog and Pharyngula!

[unusualmusic_lj_archive]

Why the hell are we using our justified disgust with Christianity to be utter assholes to mentally ill persons?

No, ladies and gentlemen. This isn't funny. It's frigging immoral, imho. Do you think its easy for mentally ill persons to have relationships? Do you think its easy for them to find understanding persons, especially if they are able-bodied, who have the time and the understanding to stick with them through thick and thin? This is your abled-bodied privilege stinking up the place, yo. Not funny. In fact, EPIC FAIL.


DO NOT READ THE COMMENTS.

Comments

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Schizophrenia is a disease, not a character flaw.

I can't bear Pharyngula any more, especially the comments section. Did he get called on it?

[sajia.livejournal.com]

I have always disliked PZ Myers since he wrote that piece justifying the despoiling of native american graveyards in the name of science. It was the beginning of my education in the racism of white atheists.

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

seriously, fail blog has bring so much fail lately, there was the transphobic one too some days ago, and many many more.

[hari-mirchi.livejournal.com]

See, I read that, and I see a Christianist zealot who refuses to seek psychiatric care because it's of the devil. That or a "christian" community that discourages members from seeking care. "Self-controlled" is a screaming red flag, and the kind of people who would insist that mental illness should be "self-controlled" instead of treated by a professional deserve to be mocked.

[claws-n-stripes.livejournal.com]

I'm going to add to the above my agreement, and utter disgust.

I do have a question. Wouldn't "neurotypical privilege" be more accurate than "able-bodied privilege"?

[sanguinity]

It took me a long time to figure out what Pharyngula was doing with that, and then when I finally did? The disgust, it burns.

[seize.livejournal.com]

Pharyngula has pissed me off before, but this is just...keyboard smash.

I'm an evolutionary biologist, I should love that blog...but he frequently makes me angry. And not just when he's being a privileged jackass like in this case.

...Hm....I'm having trouble extricating what may be a valid anti-PZ argument from "tone" bullshit. I'll probably post on my journal about this later.