Talk:Sanism

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section on sanist language?

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-blog/2018/september/that-crazy-why-you-might-want-to-rethink-that-word-in-your-vocabulary

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/08/739643765/why-people-are-arguing-to-stop-using-the-words-crazy-and-insane

https://ivacheung.com/2015/05/sanism-and-the-language-of-mental-illness/

What about a section on sanist language.

sanist language seems to be much more accepted in society than anti-gay language or some other ableist language.

For example, in many contexts saying "spaz" is inappropriate (https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/spazz-lyrics-beyonce-lizzo-disability-experts-opinion-1235121272/)

or calling things "gay" in a pejorative way is considered immature or "homophobic" in many circles. but calling things "crazy", "nuts", and/or "insane" seems to be unchallenged as insensitive to certain individuals within the Psychiatric_survivors_movement.

Maybe consider adding info about this on this article or on Wikiversity if you feel appropriate. i likely won't myself, but i wanted to put the idea out there. limitless peace. Michael Ten (talk) 03:17, 7 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The institutional discrimination section is just terrible

Poorly written, clearly biased, scantly cited, often ungrammatical. Please help! Isthistwisted (talk) 06:18, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]