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A bunch of interesting links and ideas seem to be coming out of the Feministe post Thoughts on disability and respectful language.
Reading the comments I finally had an answer to my niggling concern with the social model of disability glossing over the fact that some disabilities really do, objectively, suck, for reasons that have nothing to do with society:
But we need to break out of the model, which undoubtedly has a stronghold on the rest o society, as necessarily always in the negative realm. There is nothing INHERENTLY negative about disability. That doesn’t mean there can’t BE negatives — just that it isn’t necessarily, and always, negative.
Reading the comments I finally had an answer to my niggling concern with the social model of disability glossing over the fact that some disabilities really do, objectively, suck, for reasons that have nothing to do with society:
But we need to break out of the model, which undoubtedly has a stronghold on the rest o society, as necessarily always in the negative realm. There is nothing INHERENTLY negative about disability. That doesn’t mean there can’t BE negatives — just that it isn’t necessarily, and always, negative.
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