Shit leaves a bad taste in my mouth every time I see someone post a brainlet meme. Making sure I’m correct in my gut or if I’m being a ‘scold’
Shit leaves a bad taste in my mouth every time I see someone post a brainlet meme. Making sure I’m correct in my gut or if I’m being a ‘scold’
Is brainlet the one where the guy's brain is so huge that he's sitting on it? Or is it one of the more... unsavoury ones? Like the one where the guy's head caved in.
The latter - “let” is a diminutive suffix used to show that something is smaller than usual, in this case the brain.
Never sat well with me as I’ve worked with people with learning disabilities in the past. The point of the meme is to say “you’re so stupid/ignorant you basically have/you’re no better than those with a learning disability” but in my experience, people with such disabilities aren’t stupid they just take longer to grasp things (yes, I know it’s a spectrum). One of my friends at Uni had a visible learning disability and graduated first class for fucks sake and they looked and talked like you might expect somebody with such a disability would but you’d actually need to talk with them to challenge your own preconceptions and ignorance on the matter.
Anyway, my point is if you’re going to mock somebody’s ideas there’s no need to take a swing at an unrelated group of people. Disabled people of all kind already have enough of an image problem and the least we can do is not actively contribute to that.
And just to be clear, calling somebody “stupid” is not ableist in of itself. It’s that and reductively linking it to a disability which is the issue.
It’s the word and the pictures people post of the wojack that appears to have Down syndrome that bothers me. Seems cruel, It’s meanspirited out there these days though