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Feminist Group: "Autism is a Feminist Issue"
Pundit Press ^ | 3/25/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 03/25/2015 7:20:55 AM PDT by rightistight

According to the feminist group FEMSOC, short for Feminist Society, “being autistic is a feminist issue.”

In an article published by NUI Galway’s student newspaper, writer Emer McHugh makes the case in a piece called, “Is there anything as strange as a normal person? Being autistic is a feminist issue.”

The main theme of Ms. Galway’s article is that there needs to be more autistic women in popular media and “cishet-white-males” are ruining the life of autistic women worldwide.

“Over the years,” Ms. Galway writes, “I’ve mentally collated the reactions I get when I come out to them, and they all stem from the dickish-yet-brilliant-cishet-white-male template that we’re all used to.”

She continues, “It’s led me to conclude that autism is terribly gendered, and that it is a feminist issue. An autistic woman, it seems, doesn’t compute.”

The fact of the matter, according to Ms. Galway, is that “aspies of genders who aren’t cis white men get lost in the shuffle.”

Apparently Ms. Galway has done no research as to why men might be more often shown as autistic than women. The true fact of the matter is that males are five times more likely than females to be autistic.

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1 posted on 03/25/2015 7:20:55 AM PDT by rightistight
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To: rightistight

there needs to be more autistic women in popular media

no FACEPALM image could possibly be sufficient to express my response to THIS ONE!


2 posted on 03/25/2015 7:22:15 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: rightistight
“cishet-white-males”

Wait. What?
3 posted on 03/25/2015 7:26:19 AM PDT by needmorePaine
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To: rightistight

“cishet white males”? Why is it that liberals have certain groups that it is perfectly acceptable to demonize and treat as second class citizens?


4 posted on 03/25/2015 7:26:33 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: rightistight

What’s a cishet?


5 posted on 03/25/2015 7:26:49 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: rightistight

What language are they speaking?


6 posted on 03/25/2015 7:27:26 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: TEXOKIE

I googled it... you probably don’t want to know.


7 posted on 03/25/2015 7:28:00 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: rightistight

Everything is a feminist issue, since feminists are completely unbalanced mentally, and have a distorted view of the world.


8 posted on 03/25/2015 7:28:45 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: TEXOKIE

“Cishet” is a new term that means ‘normal heterogeneous person’.


9 posted on 03/25/2015 7:30:11 AM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: rightistight

Greenpeace says that autism is a result of global warming.


10 posted on 03/25/2015 7:32:21 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: rightistight

I don’t know if Temple Grandin is a feminist ... but I do know she’s a woman! ... :-) ...

Temple Grandin
http://www.templegrandin.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin


11 posted on 03/25/2015 7:33:04 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: TEXOKIE

Cishet????

12 posted on 03/25/2015 7:33:20 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: TEXOKIE

Cishet: one who identifies with their birth gender and is attracted to the opposite sex.


13 posted on 03/25/2015 7:33:52 AM PDT by exnavy (Islam is not a religion, it is an attack plan for war.)
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To: MeshugeMikey
...more autistic women in popular media...

What, the lead character in the crime-drama-with-nerds Bones isn't enough? (I trust everyone has noticed crime-drama-with-nerds is now a wildly popular subgenre of police procedural.)

Yes, under DSM-4 her diagnosis would be Asperger Syndrome, but under DSM-5 that diagnosis is no longer separated from autism and is regarded as simply mild autism.

14 posted on 03/25/2015 7:34:57 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: exnavy

In other words: Normal!


15 posted on 03/25/2015 7:35:13 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: The_Reader_David

Id settle for calling her Bonkers!!


16 posted on 03/25/2015 7:36:30 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Arm_Bears

Yes!


17 posted on 03/25/2015 7:36:45 AM PDT by exnavy (Islam is not a religion, it is an attack plan for war.)
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To: hoagy62; exnavy

Good grief!

Thanks for educating me.


18 posted on 03/25/2015 7:36:50 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: NorthMountain

LOL!


19 posted on 03/25/2015 7:37:24 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

LOL! You are right... didn’t want to know... but I asked!


20 posted on 03/25/2015 7:39:02 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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