With Friends Like These...

Right, be prepared because I'm going to commence with an epic rant....

I dunno if anyone remembers that blog post some months ago regarding disability and the nature of friendship? Well, I've given it some thought and I'm frankly sick to death of ignoring flagrant exclusion on Facebook.

Picture the scenario....you flick through a school friend's contact list on Facebook only to find there are a number of people with whom you also went to school with, maybe even went onto higher education with. Funny, why am I not on their friends list too? I know these people offline, so what's the deal?

So you request to add them as a Facebook friend. The request is denied. You try again some days later.....yet again the request is deleted. They're obviously online and are active users of Facebook because the request wasn't accepted.

What the flying FUCK is that all about?

So....I can conclude as I am an expert in matters pertaining to social isolation and disability issues that this is nothing more than out and out prejudice! I am fed up to the back teeth of ignoring and brushing these kind of retrograde, outdated, discriminatory attitudes of people under the carpet. From now on, these merchants are gonna be called out for the smug, two-faced bastards that they are. Let's unmask the savage creature of disablism in all its covert or overt incarnations and expose these wretches for their shameful, blind idiocy.

I might add that it's usually a male phenomenon!

I'll probably lose friends over this post but it's really is insufferable to know that even people with whom you know in real life cannot commit themselves to allow a cripple on their contact list because it might smear their self-entitled, heteronormative, cosy, cutesy little Facebook world. In actual fact it makes you look like a narrow-minded, pathetic imbecile of poor social understanding, but hey, I'll let you deal with that one in your own way.

I would just like to remind people that at any point in their lives they too could become disabled, so let's how many pals stick around should you wind up in a wheelchair eh?

I'd gladly kneecap the bleeding lot of them with a Becky bazooka!