LoT ablism
Aug. 23rd, 2017 04:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethYou know what bugs me?
... it's nearly five in the morning and I haven't slept, many things bug me...
but I was watching Legends of tomorrow
the episode in season one in the asylum
in the 1950s
and they explicitly say it's a bad era to be black, or queer, or a woman
but they don't say word one about mental health.
The symptoms of the only ill people we see include not being able to communicate
and we don't get any part of the story from their point of view.
And the story is about mental illness from a lot of angles. The Legends are an eclectic bunch, and they've all got things to deal with
but there's no explicit textual mention of that.
In fact the text sets the dichotomy as between human and monster.
It's better at showing the physically monstrous are not in fact monsters
than it is even vaguely hinting that the ones called crazy might not be.
The failure to approach Sara's behaviour after her reversible death from a mental health paradigm absolutely infuriated me
they kept her chained up ffs, and the story doesn't appear to notice that's a problem, or suggest there's ways of actually coping with mentally ill relatives.
But to have an entire story center around a hospital meant to provide mental health care
and never explicitly mention actual mental health problems
or listen to anyone mentally ill?
Great big symptom of a systemic problem.
They keep on treating 'can they be saved' as a moral problem, and ignoring medical aspects.
Stein's been mentally ill enough to live under a bridge, and it was treated with medicine, which helped. Why does that never come up again? Does Firestorm still need meds? Or was it a one dose magic cure all?
I realise a lot of people don't know much about the topic
but the writers keep on making their characters ill in these ways
and then just... leaving them to it.
From what I've read of season 2 they get worse about Mick.
I just... they make a point of so many other things, then are casually, repeatedly ablist.
It bothers me.
Now the sky is making interesting loud noises.
So, sleep maybe for later.
Eh, internet forever.
... it's nearly five in the morning and I haven't slept, many things bug me...
but I was watching Legends of tomorrow
the episode in season one in the asylum
in the 1950s
and they explicitly say it's a bad era to be black, or queer, or a woman
but they don't say word one about mental health.
The symptoms of the only ill people we see include not being able to communicate
and we don't get any part of the story from their point of view.
And the story is about mental illness from a lot of angles. The Legends are an eclectic bunch, and they've all got things to deal with
but there's no explicit textual mention of that.
In fact the text sets the dichotomy as between human and monster.
It's better at showing the physically monstrous are not in fact monsters
than it is even vaguely hinting that the ones called crazy might not be.
The failure to approach Sara's behaviour after her reversible death from a mental health paradigm absolutely infuriated me
they kept her chained up ffs, and the story doesn't appear to notice that's a problem, or suggest there's ways of actually coping with mentally ill relatives.
But to have an entire story center around a hospital meant to provide mental health care
and never explicitly mention actual mental health problems
or listen to anyone mentally ill?
Great big symptom of a systemic problem.
They keep on treating 'can they be saved' as a moral problem, and ignoring medical aspects.
Stein's been mentally ill enough to live under a bridge, and it was treated with medicine, which helped. Why does that never come up again? Does Firestorm still need meds? Or was it a one dose magic cure all?
I realise a lot of people don't know much about the topic
but the writers keep on making their characters ill in these ways
and then just... leaving them to it.
From what I've read of season 2 they get worse about Mick.
I just... they make a point of so many other things, then are casually, repeatedly ablist.
It bothers me.
Now the sky is making interesting loud noises.
So, sleep maybe for later.
Eh, internet forever.