After her comments about it not being intersectional enough, in the next breath she talks about it being tokenistic?! What she was saying they could have done more of would come across as incredibly tokenistic, surely?
So well said. I'm not trying to come across like a boomer who doesn't understand the need for equality and modern terms, I get that world is changing and we all need to look at it with fresh eyes in terms of identity. But I do have a problem with people like her who try too hard with it, and use it as a constant agenda on their platform to try and be relevant. Its insincere and fake but because she is disabled its ok and she's allowed to call us all out without knowing our circumstances or identity.
She's also completely forgotten about hidden disabilities too, that so many people suffer and face discrimination when pregnant and as parents
But its a start surely? A few years back books were ignorant enough to not include anything. And no that is of course not me saying "disabled people should be grateful!" But its impossible to cater for absolutely every single disability. A hearing aid would be great, but then what about blind people? Where's their representation? What about people with birth defects, downs syndrome, chromes disease..... one disabled person may possibly be left out. There's always a lot more that media can do to be inclusive, but I guarantee she will still find something to complain about even if they were!
Why shouldn’t we say ‘this is good, it could be better!’ - obviously no one book/film/movie will ever be entirely and truly and completely representative but given the effort they put in to include other types of diversity it is a shame they didn’t demonstrate the same range of disabilities.
There's nothing wrong with saying this book could be better, but let's face it, nothing would please her. That's the point. And according to her they didn't include that many other diversities. Most of her rant wasn't even about mainly disabilities, it was about the lack of types of people, gender etc... despite the fact that the book seemed very culturally and sexually diverse in its choice of couples.
I agree with this! It is NOT ok to give a book she was GIFTED bad publicity when they have been inclusive of some disabilities! You can't be inclusive of ALL disabilities even if you wrote a book the size of the bible. She should pick on the kids books that don't even try, not the ones that are on the right track. Why does she think she's an expert anyway?
I think this is the thing with Cathy, she goes off on these kinds of rants so frequently, that even when she’s got a point people just roll their eyes & think ‘oh ffs here she goes again’. I agree that it often seems like nothing will please her. Even when companies she’s called out have engaged with her and tried to make things right, nothing they’ve said or done has been good enough for her.
Wow, when has she said she doesn't want to date a guy with a disability? That's horrendous and goes against everything she preaches.
On her stories- she was furious because someone said she could date someone with her type of disability too so this person would understand better what she going trough (she was moaning people without disabilities didn't get problems she have to face in daily life). She was so angry and she said "why people think all what I can have is disabled partner? For me is being hypocrite. When you love someone does it matter is disabled or no?Wow, when has she said she doesn't want to date a guy with a disability? That's horrendous and goes against everything she preaches.
Interesting that she's decided not to share more disability content (her prerogative, of course) now that she's used it to gain followers and has reached her goal of being an influencer
It'll be interesting to see if she loses lots of followers who originally followed for that content and aren't particularly interested in skincare etc. I totally respect that it's her page/life/choice but it has made me question her integrity again.
What she is trying to prove? One moment she creates herself as successful, independent woman who don't need a man in her life ( just because they don't give her much attention) the other she is trying to impress (?) How successful sexual life she have.
