What NOT to say to persons with disability ft. Sweta Mantrii

Brut India

This stand-up comic uses her humour to talk about her disability. On this World Disability Day, Sweta Mantrii will tell you what not to say to a person with disability.

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00:00I am not an individual with special needs, but I'm a girlfriend who has special needs.

00:15It boils down to that one thing that why is disability so bad, you know, it's just like

00:30I'm loving, funny, caring, I'm a bad person. Like that is also me, right?

00:39Their sexual life will not be fulfilling. In the case of women that they will not be able to

00:44conceive and in the case of men they will not be able to perform. I mean there are different

00:48disabilities, there are different bodies, there are different functionalities. Let's just put it

00:55out there that there is no one right way to experience pleasure. Well, why do I have to

01:01exist and do something to be worthy enough of love?

01:09First of all, I think that itself is very problematic, the entire

01:13approach towards women and marriage.

01:15First of all, if she is not able to conceive, then what? I understand it's a life skill.

01:27She will employ somebody or somebody else will make tea for her.

01:31But why does not making tea make her a lesser person or a lesser candidate for a marriage?

01:41I don't see your disability. It's not a compliment. I think what someone means is that

01:50they don't see us as disabled people, they don't see us for our disability, but they see us for our

01:57ability. But here's the thing, why is disability bad? You know, like what is wrong with being

02:06disabled and being fully functional and having a fulfilling life?

02:11I am not an individual with special needs, but I'm a girlfriend who has special needs.

02:21I mean, if you have good legs, then your good face would have been useful enough to lure men or

02:30I don't know, get a good relationship, be a nice trophy wife to somebody.

02:35I am literally speechless. I have no explanation to give as to why it makes me feel bad or why

02:42it's problematic for that matter. First of all, I didn't ask for the disability. It is what it is.

02:51And again, my disability is not a bad thing. I want to reiterate myself. My disability is not

02:58a bad thing. Doesn't make me a bad person. Doesn't make my life bad. It's chill.

03:04We want good opening pick-up lines. So please.

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