Hopefully random thought

[beccaelizabeth]

Thing I can't stand when people write poorly about disability: using disability as a metaphor, or physical representation of a moral quality.

Thing I have seen in multiple screenwriting textbooks actually assigned by colleges: the instruction to only use disability if it's a metaphor and a physical representation of a moral quality.

For instance, if willful refusal to acknowledge facts, then physical blindness.
Ablist as all hell, but somehow considered a tool to use in fiction.

Comments

[miss_s_b]

I detest that too.

[baronjanus]

It's a tool when people don't write characters and plots in realistic worlds, but instead parables and didactic messages. It's the same people who will always have the hero be a (cis, het) white guy unless there's a Reason for them not to be, because "that's who everyone is!" (creepy. so creepy)

They don't write stories. They write propaganda.

[beccaelizabeth]

*nods*