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Post by wheelie37 on Sept 14, 2006 3:42:18 GMT -5
The only thing I have to add to this comes back to my abhorrence of the word 'devo' in any of its many variations. Classifying a person as a 'devo' strips her of her individuality and neatly packs her into a little box. In a way, it dismisses any real connection she might make with our hero, the wheeler, as a side effect of her kink. Hey "V", for the record, i'm with ya.....i really don't like the label "devo" for the reasons you listed, but i guess we all get some STAMP along the way. I really hate Gimp, or Crip, or handicapped, but i know i'm going to get a label of some kind, so i don't fight it. "Physically Challenged" was cool with me, but people don't hear it enough to remember it, i guess. dont think it is a label as such. like many of my friends down the pubs etc would say "you seen wheely paul around?" or wheelchair paul. I have no problem with it as even though the wheelchair is not me, just a way of being an individual of sorts It is a way of trying to describe yourself and being recognised by your interests
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Post by E on Sept 14, 2006 7:40:50 GMT -5
People actually call you Wheelchair Paul? Are there several Pauls in your group of friends or something?
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Post by Triassic on Sept 14, 2006 8:54:06 GMT -5
Do they call you Creative E? haha
as in: Where's that Creative Eric fucker?
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Post by E on Sept 14, 2006 11:18:44 GMT -5
dont think it is a label as such. like many of my friends down the pubs etc would say "you seen wheely paul around?" or wheelchair paul. I have no problem with it as even though the wheelchair is not me, just a way of being an individual of sorts It is a way of trying to describe yourself and being recognised by your interests No, Triassic, people don't call me Creative-E, but I never said they do. Here he's saying people actually refer to him as Wheelchair Paul.
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Post by wheelie37 on Sept 14, 2006 12:33:16 GMT -5
People actually call you Wheelchair Paul? Are there several Pauls in your group of friends or something? there are a lot of pauls around in the uk, it is quite a popular name
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Post by Triassic on Sept 14, 2006 13:25:27 GMT -5
Yeah, E...I was trying to make a funny.
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Post by §cαrL£t on Jun 16, 2008 0:25:38 GMT -5
Back in the day I read DA fic like it was my job. There were always the AU fics that made Logan walk, but the chair fics were just as pervasive. As people said upthread, the unacknowledged devoism amongst M/L writers was rampant. But even there weren't really Max-as-a-straight-out-devo fics, there was plenty of "Because Max is transgenic, she relates to something about Logan's disability, and hence part of her attraction to him lies in that part of him."
I'm fascinated by the link between devoism and fanfic. The idea of reclaiming control (of the body), of maneuvering in a non-mainstream yet effective manner: these are things that some devos find attractive about disability, but they're also things that attract people to the fanfic medium. There's a book called Nasa/Trek by Constance Penley: in a chapter on K/S slash, she analyses what the women who write that genre consider an idealized male body. I recognized a number of my devo fantasies in there.
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