Agreeing very much with this. And the thing is... I like h/c. I even like h/c that involves certain forms of disability - speaking as a person with disabilities, I think it's my version of junk food. Not a guilty pleasure, but a little goes a long way.
This... I just suspect it will go horribly wrong. (Don't even get me started on how badly child abuse and male characters - because it is going to be mostly slash, it always is - is handled by fandom as a whole.) It's going to be a majority of able-bodied people projecting their ideas of what disability means, and what it means in terms of h/c.
I wrote fic a while back involving a character who was a cane-user getting a hand massage. Because canes can end up screwing up/hurting your hand. And most of the comments I got were "But isn't his leg the problem?" Yes, but. Even if something is related to your disability, it's not always about your disability. And people with disabilities can have the same needs as everyone else, dammit.
Which is the other thing that bugs me - outside of the disability-related squares, what are the chances that these will involve people with disabilities? Or that it won't just be "Disabled person being comforted by an able-bodied person". For example, what are the chances we'll get a wheelchair-using woman helping her able-bodied boyfriend deal with his abandonment issues, or a Deaf man taking care of a boyfriend with toothache? Not bloody likely.
...wow, I put my ranty pants on there. Ahem. Excuse me.
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Date: 2010-06-12 11:31 am (UTC)This... I just suspect it will go horribly wrong. (Don't even get me started on how badly child abuse and male characters - because it is going to be mostly slash, it always is - is handled by fandom as a whole.) It's going to be a majority of able-bodied people projecting their ideas of what disability means, and what it means in terms of h/c.
I wrote fic a while back involving a character who was a cane-user getting a hand massage. Because canes can end up screwing up/hurting your hand. And most of the comments I got were "But isn't his leg the problem?" Yes, but. Even if something is related to your disability, it's not always about your disability. And people with disabilities can have the same needs as everyone else, dammit.
Which is the other thing that bugs me - outside of the disability-related squares, what are the chances that these will involve people with disabilities? Or that it won't just be "Disabled person being comforted by an able-bodied person". For example, what are the chances we'll get a wheelchair-using woman helping her able-bodied boyfriend deal with his abandonment issues, or a Deaf man taking care of a boyfriend with toothache? Not bloody likely.
...wow, I put my ranty pants on there. Ahem. Excuse me.