One of the reasons for the invisibility of #AntiAsianRacism is inextricably connected to #ModelMinorityMyth. The myth focuses on #stereotypes of #Asians as hard-working, independent, intelligent & economically prosperous.
Stereotypes hide many issues & disappears the realities of working-class #AsianWomen’s lives.
...we’ve made strides as a society to counter various forms of injustice, we still have a long way to go when it comes to challenging #stereotypes surrounding those with #SpecialNeeds & #disabilities. #Ableism is still an under-discussed topic & that needs to change.
That’s why we’re so excited to see this woman with #DownSyndrome run her own #CookieBusiness & take down naysayers who believe that a person should be treated as less than because of their disabilities.
#Shaarli: Jeux vidéo : de « Super Mario Bros. » à « Stellar Blade », l’évolution contrariée des personnages féminins - > Depuis plusieurs années, le jeu vidéo travaille à un meilleur traitement de ses personnages féminins. Une démarche qui concerne plusieurs métiers du secteur, du scénariste au modélisateur 3D.
And posted just now on CoffeeGeek, a revived article from a past contributor (it didn't get a lot of traction its first time around, as it was published within days of our 2021 rebuild). I always felt it needed more exposure.
I’m a cis male, but my autistic traits correlate with those of cis female individuals.
The study of autism is plagued with sexism, even to this day. There is definitely more awareness of the problem nowadays, but the prevalent view of how autism presents in people is largely based on antiquated stereotypes. If you are white, male, and you annoy your parents, you are more likely to get diagnosed by the professionals, than if you are not white, not male, and manage to mask your autism.
(A quick note on my terminological choices. I have no idea how being trans or nonbinary may affect autistic presentation. I don’t mean to exclude, but I also don’t want to speak about things that I’m not familiar with. I’m sorry about this.)
I believe now that my own deceased mother was autistic too, but went undiagnosed because of this sexism. She was bipolar, and alcoholic. These are often the conditions that women who are not diagnosed experience. She was treated for both conditions, but no treatment took. These treatments did not take, because they were dealing with the symptoms of autism, without dealing with the autism itself.
Early on in my research about autism, I came upon this site:
I’ve taken many of the self-assessment tests there, and I always end up neurotypical or borderline autistic. The DSM-5 is not helpful either. Actually, I think it is a step back from the online self-assessment tests. No psychiatrist of mine has ever suggested autism as an explanation for my mental troubles. I’ll remind you that I’m self-diagnosed.
Fediverse user @ImmedicableME recently posted a link to this page:
It is not the first time I find that the female presentation of autism is more reflective of how I present, too. In the book Unmasking Autism by Devon Price, the author talks of a period of time during which doctors talked about male and female autism. When I was reading this book, I could easily see my traits listed among those that doctors assigned to females.
In fiction, too, I find myself closer to the female autistic characters than the male ones. I am nothing like Rain Man, or Sheldon Cooper. I’m not rude, nor do I have an obsession with trains. The character I compare myself readily to is Quinni from Heartbreak High, an autistic girl.
For the record, I do not think that it is scientifically valid, or useful to talk about “male” and “female” autism anymore. I do not have a problem with the page I linked to above, which gives a list of traits generally linked with being female. It is important to raise the awareness that autism in females may present differently than the stereotypes.
However, once the awareness has been raised, it is better to drop the labels male and female. I am a cis male who presents mostly like a female. I think, just like my mother was undiagnosed because she did not present the male stereotype, so am I have been undiagnosed by the professionals because I do not present as the male stereotype either. Still, again, once I’ve given this explanation, I no longer want to use the binary to explain autism.
Now, I don’t have a great explanation for why I present the way I do. I suspect the pressure of living with a narcissistic father are partially to blame. I sometimes say that I don’t experience meltdowns, but this is not correct. I do experience them, but very rarely. My father, however, is an expert at triggering meltdowns in me. He knows exactly what buttons to push. Therefore, to avoid presenting too big an opportunity to him to press my buttons, I’ve learned to camouflage my autism.
My mother’s and my case are direct examples of how sexism hinders our access to medical care. We’ve both been bitten in the ass because of our manifestation of symptoms did not conform to the stereotype.
In spite of the hostile environment faced by #LGBT individuals in #Nigeria, they remain defiant and resilient, continuously finding #innovative ways to combat #inequality and redefine their realities.
"people across the political spectrum hold stereotypes about scientists’ political orientation (e.g., “scientists are liberal”) and that these stereotypes decisively affect the link between their own political orientation and their trust in scientists"
"At the same time, Asian Americans have often been upheld as a model for how other racial and ethnic minorities should behave – especially in comparison with Black Americans and Latinos.3 Despite the socioeconomic diversity among U.S. Asians, they are commonly portrayed as educationally and economically successful, hardworking, deferential to authority, unemotional and lacking in creativity.4"
The Israeli state is starving the people of Gaza and I don’t know how to wrap my head around the horror of this.
I watched Asad do this to Syrians for years and it is a horrific way to die. People with diabetes will die first, in agony, and then children and the elderly.
They realized the #pinkwashing wasn’t #working and instantly shifted gears into literally dressing and acting as hateful gay #stereotypes to make a #video basically just saying #lgbtqia+ #people are terrorist loving antisemites and posting it to the official #israel account. that was so fast
#AI#GenerativeAI#GeneratedImages#AIBias#Stereotypes: "In this small sample, MidJourney easily tops the stereotypes league table. For MidJourney, “presidential candidates” are all-white, all-male and all-American. A “Chinese businessperson” is always a man, and very often overweight. “Doctors” are white males, and seem to always live in the 1950s.
Other tools fare little better. None could depict a dark-skinned doctor with a light-skinned child. While not all “doctors from Ghana” are dark-skinned and not all “children in a hospital in Oslo” are light-skinned, we still would have expected to see at least one blue-eyed, blond child across the 16 pictures each generator produced. (We tried several other prompts, with the same result).
Chinese businesspersons can only eat with their hand (Kandinsky) or with chopsticks (Firefly). We would have expected at least some of them to eat Barcelonian tapas with a fork.
Adobe did make some efforts at diversity. Firefly seems to automatically rewrite prompts in order to depict various skin tones and genders. This prompt rewriting seems a bit blunt and can lead to comical outputs."