Not your inspiration / "Inspiration porn"
- Disabled People Are Not Your Inspiration @ xoJane - "Nondisabled people don’t seem to understand how frustrating and damaging this language is, the heavy burden it creates for us in our interactions with society. They seem to be under the impression that this kind of objectification improves our lot in life, or gives us a reason to live; we may not amount to much, but at least we can be inspiring, you know. We’re making such great accomplishments simply by being alive.Stella J. Young refers to this as “inspiration porn.” She points out that the whole idea that we’re inspiring is grounded in the “assumption that the people in [disability porn] have terrible lives, and that it takes some extra kind of pluck or courage to live them.”
- We're not here for your inspiration @ ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - "Let me be clear about the intent of this inspiration porn; it's there so that non-disabled people can put their worries into perspective. So they can go, "Oh well if that kid who doesn't have any legs can smile while he's having an awesome time, I should never, EVER feel bad about my life". It's there so that non-disabled people can look at us and think "well, it could be worse... I could be that person"....And there's the rub. My everyday life in which I do exactly the same things as everyone else should not inspire people, and yet I am constantly congratulated by strangers for simply existing. It happened twice last week."
- Inspiration Porn: What It Is and Why It Hurts @ New Sacred - "1. Inspiration porn sets an able-bodied, neurotypical standard of “normal” as exceptional for disabled people, and therefore assumes that we are expected to do “worse” at any given task than our non-disabled peers...When we leave these details out, we are able to assume that the disabled people who don’t succeed in this way are not smart enough, brave enough, and give up too easily, and are therefore not worthy of our attention."
- Hollywood’s Disability ‘Inspiration Porn’ Is Terrible, but Here’s How We Can Fix It @ TakePart - "Hash made a conscious choice to avoid having the film “feel like science class,” as she puts it, or position her as a hero. When she’s buying bread, she’s just buying bread. And if some scenes seem unusual—she’s at a drum circle, say, or a clothing-optional festival—the joke is on the viewer for surmising she belongs anywhere else. “People should see the reality, not us being put on some pedestal just because we got dressed and got out of bed,” Hash says."
- 4 Things You Should Ask Yourself Before Sharing Inspiration Porn On Social Media @ Ravishly - "This whole epidemic has led me to roll my eyes and yell expletives at my screens more times than I can count. If you’ve ever seen something akin to the following, you’ve definitely witnessed inspiration porn.“This boy is blind, but can sing like an angel — watch his inspiring performance!”“This woman born without legs just had a baby! Isn’t it a miracle?”Meanwhile, I am usually on the other end of these, shouting the seemingly obvious: “What does vision have to do with vocal ability?” or “Legs aren’t attached to a uterus; why can’t she have a family?”
- The Dangers Of Inspiration Porn: The Case Of Oscar Pistorius, A Great Athlete @ Care2 Causes - "...Their use of prosthetics is the only thing about them that is of interest in these images, and it automatically turns them into some kind of superhero. Along with the captions, the implication is supposed to be, “Wow, they have a great attitude!”."
- Please Stop Calling My Life With A Disability 'Inspiring' @ The Establishment - "I can tell you now—a decade later—that the flutter in my tummy was shame. I’ve experienced it several times since, during job interviews where my ability to guide an electric wheelchair was praised more than my previous experience, and at the hands of overly cheerful mothers teaching their kids how to react to the obviously disabled lady, for example. When I walked across the auditorium to collect an award congratulating my fairly normal academic performance, it felt like the equivalent of receiving a patronizing pat on my head. It was as if the very people who’d shown me I could be anything I wanted were telling me they were actually quite surprised I’d managed to pass the same exam that almost every 15-year-old in the city had conquered. You did well, I could almost hear them say, for a disabled girl."
- How "Inspiration Porn" Reporting Objectifies People With Disabilities @The Establishment - "We see the same pattern when people with Down syndrome are “allowed” to score touchdowns, score baskets, or otherwise mimic the norms of typical sports. There’s nothing real about these stories. They never address the lack of genuinely integrated competitive athletic options for disabled people...“ Still a third type of inspiration porn relies on the word “overcome.” “Student overcomes down’s syndrome for spirited cheerleading routine,” for example, in which a disability is assumed to have been an obstacle."
- What Is so Wrong with Inspiration Porn? @ Think Inclusive - "2. Media coverage of these events almost always focuses on the kindness of the organizers, relatively little on the disabled individuals these events are supposed to benefit, and not at all on the stigmas and barriers disabled students face every day in their effort to participate in school social life."
- Disability Representation and the Problem with "Inspiration Porn" @ The Toast - "These videos feed the dangerous and dehumanizing expectation that all people with disabilities should strive to achieve behavioral “inspiration” — by adapting to the world; i.e., driving cars or cooking with our feet, doing our hair with the use of one arm. We are seen as extraordinary for these very things when they are really just daily acts of living for many disabled people. These behavioral “inspirations” also lend themselves to the idea that those who have not adapted in the same way are somehow less deserving of support or praise. Those who do not comply are to be ignored and dismissed."
- Explaining Inspiration Porn to Non-Disabled People @ the Body is Not an Apology
- The Inspiration Porn Resolution – Disability Stories @ Medium - Participation Trophies.Able-Bodied Heroes.People as Props.Gawking without Talking. SuperParent:
- The Special Olympics Is Not Here to Be Your 'Inspiration Porn' @ Broadly - "The fun thing about watching an Olympic gymnastics competition is that it is a sport relying completely upon one's mastery over his or her own body. A well-executed floor routine gives the impression that the athlete somehow possesses the power of rhythmic flight. If you're good at gymnastics, it shows. You defy gravity. You perform cartwheels on a narrow beam four feet in the air, and spectators forget that so much depends upon balance. Some people are just very good at that sort of thing, disability or not....Some people in the disability rights movement have tried to make the public aware of the negative impact of over-praise, or so-called inspiration porn. In fact, the Special Olympics's micro-categorized awards system has been a point of contention in the disability rights community for years."
- The Inspiration Porn is Out of Control @ Dominick Evans - "Everybody needs help at some point, but non-disabled people are exploiting this, so they can go viral and feel good about themselves. Whatever happened to wanting to do something good because it’s the right thing to do? Nobody needs accolades for doing the right thing, but the latest posts are truly disturbing....Often, the narratives about them needing help are full of pity and shame. No one should have to be ashamed for needing help, but you would not know it by the response to these photos that are being posted. The do-gooder is always a hero, and so brave and courageous for bothering to help a disabled person."
- “Inspiration Porn” Objectifies People With Disabilities @ Reflections of a Paralytic - "At its core, inspiration porn — specifically the kind that focuses on an able-bodied person “helping” someone with a disability — “demonstrates the need for a broader engagement with the social model of disability.” As I have said here before, often the hardest part about living with a disability is not coming to terms with what I can’t do, but dealing with the perception that I am more helpless than I really am."
- Disability as Inspiration Porn @ Disability Today Network - "I have no problem with people finding me inspiring. I’ve accomplished a lot and I have worked hard for my achievements. I’m very intelligent so do me a favour and talk to me as though I have a brain. Please don’t be stunned into silence when you hear that I went to university, that I have actual career aspirations or that I have a thriving social life filled with able-bodied people (yes, I have mastered basic human interaction; no, dealing with people who do not have spastic limbs does not throw me for a loop). If you’re going to be inspired by me, all I ask is that you focus on qualities and traits worthy of inspiration.I have a disability; I’m not a shut-in, there is a difference. I have friends – lots of them. I don’t hate my life. It shouldn’t be shocking."
- Inspiration Porn @ Accessible Media Inc. - "Many people living with a disability are told they’re inspirational for doing the most ordinary things - a concept now known as Inspiration Porn. Although well meaning, these comments single people out and paint them as objects of inspiration."
- Inspiration Porn | THIS IS ABLEISM @ Tumblr
- inspiration Porn Further Disables the Disabled @ Al Jazeera America - "“The woman is not helpless. She specifically requested assistance with eating,” Ladau writes. “She advocated for what she needed. The employee’s assistance was simply a kind acknowledgment of her request. [The comments] regarding the man are all to the effect of “bless his heart,” “what a hero,” “such a saint....Unfortunately, the coverage is using Stuart’s pursuit of her goal as a way to fat shame. Kerima Cevik, the author of the blog Intersected writes, “This was an amazing thing to accomplish, and it shows the kind of iron will I’ve seen again and again in the neurodivergent community. Beyond the usual ‘pull yourself up by your own bootstraps’ style inspiration porn generated by Maddy’s success, her before and after photographs are being used in the worst possible way to promote fat shaming of her peers, to impose the myth of indistinguishability and objectifying stereotypes that could actually harm her peers.”The message should be that people with disabilities can set and achieve goals, not that thin equals beautiful.”
- Dear Able Friends: I Am Not Your Inspiration Porn @ Everyday Feminism - "Inspiration porn not only objectifies people with disabilities by turning them into magic talismans, but it erases the very real issues many of us experience – issues for which nobody is offering accommodations, I might add, or for which there might not be an easy solution."
- How to Avoid ‘Inspiration Porn’ When Talking About Disability @ The Mighty - "Therefore, my challenge to you all is this. When you meet someone with a disability, connect with them as a human. Give credit where it’s due, but don’t reduce them to an object of inspiration that is constantly overcoming simply by living their daily life. You might discover something quite extraordinary… that we are simply ordinary!"
- Disabled people aren’t here to inspire you by Charlie Swinbourne @The Guardian - "Another issue with “inspiration porn” is how polarised the way disabled people are seen has become. Right now, in the UK, disabled people are on the whole seen as either scroungers or “supercrips”. We’re either a drain on society, in which case we are seen as taking something from you, or we’re an example to look up to, in which case, you want to take something – inspiration – from us. "
- Inspiration porn and the objectification of disability: Stella Young at TEDxSydney 2014 uploaded by TED Talks - "Stella Young is a comedian, disability advocate and Editor of ABC's Ramp Up website, the online space for news, discussion and opinion about disability in Australia. "
Ageism - includes : elderly but still physically active and fit because physical fitness is not related to age , "beauty fades.." B.S there are numerous elderly people who are still sexy and know how to work it, the myth that eledly people are not sexualy active,etc.
- Elizabeth Brueggeman Kemna' video
- Loving Life at 90 by Phyllis Sues
- 11 Models Who Shattered The Fashion Industry's Definition of Beauty in 2014
- Freaks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia // Freaks (1932) - IMDb
- Freak show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Aimee Copeland : The official Site
- #deafdancers
- Smirnoff Presents Chris Fonseca: We're Open #deafdancers
- Collin Clarke @Men'sHealth
- "Ableism or ablism (/ˈeɪblɪzəm/) is the term used for the privileging of able-bodiedness, resulting in discrimination or social prejudice against people with disabilities. Ableism characterizes persons as defined by their disabilities, and as inferior to the non disabled" - Wikipedia
- Be a Nicer Person by Eliminating This One Word from Your Vocabulary - Never say "retard"
- "I’m Gay And Disabled And Fine, Thank You" - Ryan O'Connell @ Buzzfeed video
- Watch Beauty Behind Becca- documentary about ADD, OCD,etc.
- [Video] Not sure when it's okay to say "retarded"? Don't. From Mic
- Woman complains to Steve Harvey about what he said about special needs children/People need to stop making special needs children the butt of jokes.
- Who is Tisha UnArmed?
- Check out Change The Face of Beauty
- Meet the first model with Down syndrome to walk the runway at Fashion Week
- 11 Models Who Shattered The Fashion Industry's Definition of Beauty in 2014
- Who is Viktoria Modesta, bionic pop star?
- The Broken of Britain
the "r" word
- Why You Should Not Say The Word Retarded @ Noah's Dad - "Let me just be very honest for a minute, prior to our son being born I used the word “retarded” pretty flippantly. I would use phrases like “that’s so retarded,” “don’t be retarded,” or “man…I’m so retarded” from time to time without ever even thinking I was using discriminatory language (or hate speech) toward an entire group of people."
- R-word | Spread the Word to End the Word -
- EndtheRword - Youtube channel
F the beauty industry
"beauty fades.." fthat. no it doesn't
- Helen Mirren
- Dame Judi Dentch
- Meryl Streep
- Helen Mirren and Dame Judi Dench by Annie Leibovitz
elderly people can do the same things as younger people and are not just into bingo.
bit inspiration porny, but it shows that elderly people are just as capable as younger people.
- Bitcoin Music - "Watch a 70 year old break into the rap game."
- Dude With The Moves- Older Dude and older lady dancing amazing!
- Shirley Webb - "She has received help from her trainer, John Wright, who said he has never helped someone her age with this kind of weightlifting before. Wright says it took Webb about six months into their training before she could lift in the 200-pound range. Now, Webb goes to the gym at least twice a week." - @ ESPN
- This is how to dance properly... 0:29 is when things get interesting. - older guy dancing/clogging
- 70-Year Old Man Shocks Everyone with his 2 Stepping - YouTube
- 60 Year Old Kills Hip-Hop Routine!! - YouTube // @Ellen
- She Looks Like A Sweet Old Granny, But When The Music Starts, The Judges Are Shocked!
Neal Unger
Victor Earhart
the "s" word - Senile
when used for describing elderly people who CAN do things but younger people want to control them or minimize their accomplishments. For example, an elderly person wants to go to a Slipknot concert. Some people would say they are senile and ridiculous for thinking they could go.