#ablewashing

The first time I saw people making each of them have their own bodies by making smaller doey's with their colors to match, It kinda irked me but I could look at it through a lense of someone who isn't a system and see why it wouldn't occur to them that they are basically ableizing him/removing his mental disability in favor of cute tiny ones. It is bad to basically erase his mental disability period, it doesn't matter the reason.

But now it's super fucking common and it's starting to just piss me off. There's something so uncomfortable and insidious to specifically watch non systems go out of their way to physically rip a system apart into different bodies to make the character a singlets and then infantilize all of them so they can treat each of them like different people. It's like if an au came about that specifically gave a wheelchair bound character cyborg legs so they could walk and basically turned them into an able-bodied character and then everyone starting doing that au everywhere all the time. Y'all only think this is ok because you have no systems in your life period or none who will push back against you and DID/systemhood is a demonized and rarely understood mental disability.

Yes, it is weird and ableist that singlets are specifically obsessed with re-splitting doey into individual people. Not just in an ableist sense of making doey a singlet but also it's just kind of... Ooc? We see and hear the alters interact with each other and soothe each other and if doey wanted to be separated where each alter had their own hunk of dough, he would of done it by now. He would of split off on his own either at some point before we got there and Poppy's playtime would of mentioned it or while we were there. Except he doesn't and although there are plenty of alters within numerous systems who, if given the chance, would happily have a body of their own but that is not a common desire and certainly not the entire system. Not to mention this au is usually meant to be post-chapter 4 after doey's death. Are y'all literally killing the system to save the alter?? Like?? Healing for most systems isn't final fusion, it's healthy multiplicity. Also the fact y'all are basically implying that the only reason doey didn't like you was because he was a system and the only way for him to heal is to be forcibly ripped apart are quite literally just ignoring that doey was justified in attacking the player. Y'all blew up safe haven and killed everyone he loved, you would just have a bunch of really angry little doey's... That are all still systems. Even then to portray that the only way he could "heal" ( be nice to you as the player) is being turned into a singlet is quite literally starting to tip into eugenics.

I don't want to imply or suggest malice where it's not but there's something so poetic and gross about singlets just assuming that they know what's best for a system and the choice they immediately come to is completely ableifying him, separating his alters into their own bodies and force him to be happy about it. Out of all the aus that could become popular, their choice is to erase someone's disability. Oh, and infantilize every alter into tiny doeys that their grey ex-worker y/n must take care of like literal children... Despite 2 of them being older teens?

The Au is ableist, stopping splitting doey up. You are basically erasing his disability and trying to portray it as him "healing". Y'all look like the people who constantly give characters with amputations prosthetics even though the media showed them being happy without them then basically turn it into a normal arm with a sleeve and a joke.

It's just ✨ ableism and disability erasure ✨ at some point.

I haven't watched the greatest showman. It watched a review of it. I won't watch it, I won't even pirate it, because watching a movie like that would be deeply upsetting to me.

This movie is about P.T Barnum, a real person, a horrible, ableist, racist, disgusting person, who should not be celebrated.

In this movie, he's a saviour for disabled "freaks", a word that this movie believes he has the right to reclaim for disabled people.

In reality, he exhibited disabled people and people of colour as "freaks" to be ogled and jeered at, to be abused and discarded when the novelty wore off, to exist for the entertainment of non-disabled whites.

This movie is not about the disabled "freaks". It could never be, because that would require showing the truth about freakshows, and it would give the disabled characters too much agency. This is a tragedy in my eyes, that we never see the stories of the actual disabled people of colour.

It's not about the disabled person who joined the freakshow to provide for their family.

It's not about the disabled black person who was lied to and deceived into joining.

It's not about the disabled slave who was sold into the freakshow.

It's always the non-disabled person who profiting off of the humiliation and abuse they subject their disabled workers and slaves to. And this is portrayed as something inspiring, and something the "freaks" should've been grateful for.

It's never about Joice Heth, or Saartjie Baartman, or Charles Sherwood Stratton, or the indigenous people who were tricked kidnapped or enslaved, or the disabled people who never saw their family again, it's about PT fucking Barnum.

I've seen disabled people find empowerment in this movie, and i'm happy for them. But the greatest showman was not made for disabled people to feel empowered by "embracing their differences". It was made for non disabled people who want to be a saviour to disabled people. It's for non-disabled people who feel guilty about objectifying disabled people, to reassure them that disabled people are actually grateful. It shows disabled people succeeding, but only because they cater to non-disabled people. It's made to justify ableism to non disabled audiences.

This movie is disgustingly disrespectful, to the victims of P.T Barnum. Many of the "freaks" where based on real people. Real people who were often sold into slavery, abused, tortured. Real people who this movie turns into puppets who only exist to make P.T Barnum look like a saint, to fufill non-disabled fantasies of being mother teresa to a disabled kid.