sherlockbbc_fic | Prompting Part XXXV

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Sally calling Sherlock a freak is not equivalent to him using a racial slur to refer to her.

Care to explain how calling someone a racial slur is qualitatively different than calling someone an ablelist slur, instead of just stating it as an absolute, incontravertible truth? Obviously, the level and type of systemic discrimination experienced by racial minorities is different than that experienced by disabled people, but hateful words cut deep whatever the reason behind them. If you think being called "freak," "weirdo," "monster," etc. hurts any less than being called a racist slur (or, for that matter, a homophobic, transphobic, or sizeist slur), then you've likely never been called any of these things before. You've never been a confused, lonely, socially inept teenager who internalised the words of her peers to the point she started to believe they were true and almost never made it to adulthood. And getting called hateful names doesn't hurt any less when you're out an adult -- you just learn to hide it better.

And now I'm done. I've said my piece. Back to my regularly-scheduled reading and filling.

Care to explain why freak should be rationally considered an ableist slur?

Your explanation above doesn't convince me. I think you're projecting your own issues onto Sherlock. You can read him as being autistic, but that's not canon. She's not making fun of him for behaving in definably non-neurotypical ways. She's talking to a man who does things like crow with glee when he hears that someone's been murdered, and who's just embarrassed her and her boss in front of a bunch of reporters. I think she's commenting on his socially inappropriate behaviour, and autistics don't have a monopoly on that. Considering a reading in which Sherlock's not autistic, I find it hard to believe she was being ableist. Considering a reading in which Sherlock is autistic, I still don't think she was being ableist because the types of behaviour I read it as being based on aren't non-neurotypical. Do you read it as being based on something else?

Everyone has been called a freak and a weirdo and a monster. They're not nice, but they're not ableist slurs. I'm not denying that whoever used them to bully you could have been motivated by ableism, but no minority owns them. People get called weirdos for being non-neurotypical, but they also get called weirdos because someone doesn't think they look right, or have the right culture, or present their gender the right way. It goes on. If someone calls someone a racial/sexual/ableist/etc. slur, it's that particular minority that's being denigrated, whether or not the person it's aimed at is actually part of that minority. Everyone has had to deal with disapproval for being different in some way. Calling someone a freak is not on the same level as using a minority-status-based slur.

Debatable. But since he doesn't and she does also very much besides the point.

Prompting Part XXXV

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