Become Unbutterable

Disability! Cats! Memes! Big stretches!

Before Jorts the Cat was a workers' rights leader, he was just a sweet potato doing essential work with his friend Jean.

The world found out about him when a well-meaning coworker buttered him, trying to fix him, but Jorts didn't need fixing! He just needed to have his particular skills and struggles adapted to, like all of us.

I wrote a ridiculous article about what we can learn from how Jorts' boss dealt with the situation, and it became a thing.

This is almost entirely tongue-in-cheek, though I do harbour a tiny hope it might get the point across to some people as the general abled public have a much greater will to grasp disability in animals than in people (‘look at this doggie living his best life now he has wheels!’ vs ‘look at the poor unfortunate wheelchair-bound human invalid’; Noodle the dog has a variable condition and can do things some days (yay!) and some days needs to rest and be cared for (also yay!) vs ‘you are clearly just faking because you could do this thing yesterday and now you say you can’t’).