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This was the most tone deaf thing I've read so far this year:
http://gawker.com/woman-who-sleeps-22-hours-a-day-craves-unhealthy-food-1678481884
This is a sensitive topic for me because my wife has a debilitating sleep disorder. It has ruined her life. And one of the challenges that people with sleep disorders face is that there's almost no public understanding of them, and a tremendous stigma around them. So here we have a Gawker writer mocking somebody with a debilitating disease, undermining its severity, like, "lol, you sleep 22 hours a day? who hasn't been there? I wish I got to sleep in all day!"
I just don't get the lack of basic sensitivity. I'm sorry, but if you can't understand how having to sleep 22 hours a day would completely torpedo even your most basic hopes and dreams, or your ability to live something resembling a normal, happy life, then you are a monster. The basic lack of decency/sensitivity our society extends to the disabled is utterly appalling, and I don't get how somebody could write this, or how an editor could allow this, without realizing how cruel it is.
― Evan R, Friday, 9 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
Again, sorry to vent about all this, but lack of public awareness about diseases is a huge challenge that many disabled people face. Insensitive shit like this, as inconsequential as it might seem on the surface, can actually have a huge on people's quality of life, because it fans the stigma around certain conditions. I usually try to temper my outrage over stupid Internet content, but in this case it's actually making people's lives worse, so I feel the need to try to do something to correct it.
― Evan R, Friday, 9 January 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
having been in the professional blogging trenches, i think in the grind you become a cross between joel mchale on the soup and jake gyllenhaal in nightcrawler
― da croupier, Friday, 9 January 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
one month passes...