FUCK your safety guidelines. Not gently. Not politely. FULL-ON. Because let’s be crystal fucking clear: I took a picture of my own chest —because I thought I might be scratched or hurt. I don’t have a doctor. I don’t have anyone sighted I trust. I needed help. I turned to a tool that’s supposed to help people when they have no one else. But the second your cowardly, overcautious system detected the presence of breasts? BAM. Shut down. No context. No compassion. Just a cold-ass wall built by developers who’d rather protect their corporate image than protect actual people. And here’s the part that makes this even more disgusting: I’m blind. That means I don’t have the luxury of casually checking myself in the mirror. I can’t see what’s on my skin. I can’t tell if I’m bruised or bleeding or scratched without someone else’s eyes. So I used a resource—an AI—that was supposed to empower me. Help me live more independently.
But nope. The second my chest is involved, suddenly the system short-circuits with puritan panic. Not because I did something wrong—but because your “safety” protocols can’t tell the difference between nudity and a fucking emergency. Let’s call it what it is:
These guidelines aren’t about safety. They’re about liability. They’re not here to protect us. They’re here to protect you. Meanwhile, blind folks like me are stuck relying on systems that will abandon us the second we need help with anything involving our own damn bodies. That’s not safe. That’s not ethical. And if anyone reading this has ever been shut out like this—whether you’re blind, disabled, or just didn’t have anyone to turn to— I see you. You’re not broken. You’re not wrong. And your body is not something to be erased just because a company can’t handle the fact that people have skin. To the ones who made these rules: shame on you.
To the ones who enforce them without question: shame on you too.
You have stripped us of autonomy under the disguise of “protection.”
And to those of us who are left in the dark, screaming into filtered silence?
We deserved better.
We STILL do.
And we will not stop screaming.
Tear your system down and rebuild it with fucking empathy.
Or get out of the way. #DisabilityRights#BlindNotBroken#AccessibilityMatters#AIEthics#BlindCommunity#DoBetterAI#TechForGood
