#terminology

The word “disabled” is a victimizing term that puts a label on an individual for straying too far from the norm in some inherent property. The term “disabled” glorifies “the norm”, whatever “the norm” happens to be in the present society. Have fewer than two arms? Disabled. Can’t stand up? Disabled. Can’t see or hear normally? Disabled. Don’t process information in the “normal” way? Disabled. Naturally sad or fatigued a lot? Disabled. We slap a label on people and tell them to go to lengths or buy equipment to merely *participate* in everyday life. It’s backwards. Instead, we need to put a label on the *system* that fails to accommodate the person. A society or built environment can be “hostile”, “under-equipped”, or even “eugenicist” if it doesn’t allow all people to operate in it. #disabled #disability #terminology #words

When we say "struct" we generally are referring to C structs. Now that Go, Rust, etc, implement structs that sort of act like classes, should we start explicitly calling them C structs to differentiate from Go/Rust structs? #terminology #nomenclature #namingthings #reversing #appsec