Please don't say wheelchair-bound. Just say wheelchair users. Wheelchairs are actually a huge tool for freedom and people aren't really bound or confined when using one. Nbd just some education
Is the thing it's not insulting to say wheelchair bound, and they absolutely by definition are bound. It's simply means that it is necessity. Insulin dependent diabetes, is the same exact meaning, just a different adverbial position, as wheelchair bound. I don't take it as offensive and I'm not going to feel it as offensive to anybody else to say wheelchair bound and I will continue to do so I'm sorry. I'm not completely able-bodied, I may not require a wheelchair, however I do have something that has the name that is synonymous with bound and I do not find it offensive. So I'm annoyed by able-bodied persons telling me what I should find offensive, since it is very much analogous to dependent, and I'm not asking anybody to change how they refer to this.
It is truly reached a point where people are trying to force the way people speak not because it's needed, not because what is being said is insulting, but rather because they want to feel like they are being recognized, and feel so, by forcing people to use different language, when it is completely unnecessary. Wheelchair bound is not the next r word.
That's exactly how I feel when I see certain white people say something is racist. Obviously many things are, but not everything all the time. It makes them feel good and I'm sure they have good intentions (usually), but it's counter-productive.
I guess I kind of come across a little bit of abrasive about it because it is annoying. But yeah it's the same kind of thing. I mean even if somebody is necessarily in a wheelchair, I can't imagine that the vast majority of people give one thought to or another the term wheelchair-bound.
I think what really bothers me about it is that there are so many things that really should be addressed, and it feels like everybody's trying to get their little piece of the pie, their little feel-goods from their righteous or self-belief that it is righteous, activities.
Unfortunately this dilutes the focus on the actual problems. As well as annoying people so that they feel that the real problems that are similar to the complaints made like this share more with this in being silly than they do being a real problem.
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u/chickachickabowbow Oct 12 '21
I was gonna suggest that you could fit a wheelchair in there, before I realized you can fit a wheelchair just about anywhere else without doing this.