Issuing up a red flag - Yeah Angie's on the war path
I am not usually pissed off for longer than a couple of hours but today I am angry for 24 hours, and it shows no sign of abating.
This weekend a friend went to the hotel where a convention was being held, she was providing accommodation for a friend, who had tickets and was therefore attending the convention, as well as fangirl support. She was in no way trying to attend the convention. She just also happens to be disabled and in need of a wheelchair. Why is this important? Read on.
During the weekend she hung out in the lobby and in the restaurant - public areas - waiting for her friends to have free time to hang and squee over their friends. Instead what she got was abuse and judgmental discrimination - for being disabled! She was called Trash, told to move her wheelchair from public areas and also to vacate the hotel room she PAID for and had every right to be in. She was there for her friends, not the convention!
This behaviour is not the first of it's kind from this particular convention organizer's staff, and is the principal reason why she did not buy tickets for the even - she refuses to put money in a company whose staff has been abusive to her, but without going to the hotel where the convention is, she would likely not meet the friends she has made at them. Previous to her disability she was treated well, which is the thing that really angers me, it is because she is disabled that she is treated so badly.
We tried complaining on their facebook, but they are actually not interested - I suppose they do not like the truth. We aren't stopping, and if you feel strongly about the treatment of disabled people (like myself) at conentions, feel free to let me know and I will direct you to it.
I am pissed, I am enfranchised, they will know it!
This weekend a friend went to the hotel where a convention was being held, she was providing accommodation for a friend, who had tickets and was therefore attending the convention, as well as fangirl support. She was in no way trying to attend the convention. She just also happens to be disabled and in need of a wheelchair. Why is this important? Read on.
During the weekend she hung out in the lobby and in the restaurant - public areas - waiting for her friends to have free time to hang and squee over their friends. Instead what she got was abuse and judgmental discrimination - for being disabled! She was called Trash, told to move her wheelchair from public areas and also to vacate the hotel room she PAID for and had every right to be in. She was there for her friends, not the convention!
This behaviour is not the first of it's kind from this particular convention organizer's staff, and is the principal reason why she did not buy tickets for the even - she refuses to put money in a company whose staff has been abusive to her, but without going to the hotel where the convention is, she would likely not meet the friends she has made at them. Previous to her disability she was treated well, which is the thing that really angers me, it is because she is disabled that she is treated so badly.
We tried complaining on their facebook, but they are actually not interested - I suppose they do not like the truth. We aren't stopping, and if you feel strongly about the treatment of disabled people (like myself) at conentions, feel free to let me know and I will direct you to it.
I am pissed, I am enfranchised, they will know it!