I forgot to post my good thoughts, but they are out there. For Shir and bee, both. Just be careful not to send the dog thoughts about the middle EAst and puppy thoughts to Israel. My challenge today will be to send constructive feedback to someone in my workshop that has written something that is just *phenomenally* ableist. The story isn't exactly *about* that, but he did get his protag in an accident, probably thinking "What a neat challenge," as rookies do.(I never thought anything would make me miss the spate of collegiate "OMG, the stick's blue," pregnancy-test stories that populated Creative Writing 102, but I would kill for that right now, even if they mostly showed me how little my male-presenting classmates understood the girls they boned.) College me might not have said much about this, beyond possibly that the phrase "confined to a wheelchair" gave her the ick in her mid-section, but I am feeling more responsibility now. I think maybe what I'll write is that I feel that there is a lot of bias in that section and that I'd recommend questioning assumptions and doing some research.

Because,of course, I don't want to write his story for him, although the temptation to do a savage line-edit is often there for me doing work like this, but I think that is where the idea(Helped along by monied interests who don't care how we interact, natch) that there would be Leftist Thought Police might come from. Don't wanna be that person, either, though, I know from experience that some of us do, you know, slide into self-loathing from time to time, though it's not the greatest look from a first- person protagonist. in my opinion, of course. Though I will die on the hill that "confined" is not cromulent current usage and must be banished forthwith. What I want to see from the story is that it not accept or condone unchallenged an ableist perspective, is my point.

Yeah, I bet drawing the line between unpaid-sensitivity-reader and workshop-colleague is hard but necessary