By Annaham on 21 October, 2009
“I don’t have time for positive thinking. I spend all of that time thinking negatively.” –Kathy Griffin I might as well come right out and say it: I highly dislike the whole positive thinking movement. I would say “I hate it,” but that might get me accused of being bitter, cynical, negative, and many other [...]
Posted in blaming, bodies, class issues, intersectionality, media and pop culture, shaming | Tagged ableism, advice, disability, exclusion, illness beliefs, problematic attitudes, self-help, the secret
By Ouyang Dan on 21 October, 2009
I am a pop-culture junkie. If you have been playing along at home long enough this is common knowledge. I have been a big fan of House, M.D. since it’s poorly lit pilot. I am simultaneously appalled and amused by his crass behavior. Even the best feminist in me laughs and fairly inappropriate moments. I [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, shaming | Tagged drugs are bad mmm'kay, House M.D., media and pop culture, pain management, shaming, television
By Guest on 20 October, 2009
What is Max’s impairment? What is Esther’s? And why can we recognize Max’s within five seconds of meeting her, while it takes us nearly two hours to learn–pardon the phrase–what is “wrong with” Esther?
Posted in media and pop culture | Tagged disability in fiction, exclusion, family dynamics, invisible disability, media and pop culture, mislabelling, movies, myths and misconceptions, narrative, orphan
By Anna on 19 October, 2009
All I can think of is the complete ignorance of the experiences of families with disabilities, whose children do scream and scream and scream, or do some other harming activity, because of their disability, and their parents love them anyway. I think about how this is another episode of television that’s used a person with a disability as a way for the non-disabled to learn something about themselves.
I think about how they decided disability and deformity would be their stand-in for horrible and unimaginable.
Posted in media and pop culture | Tagged abuse, family, family dynamics, television, torchwood
By lauredhel on 19 October, 2009
[This has been cross-posted at Hoyden About Town.] I don’t know who David Southwell is when he’s at home, but he’s showing his arse big-time over at his “Sub in the Pub” blog at news.com.au, a large Australia news organisation that is part of News Limited (Rupert Murdoch). Following up on the story about the [...]
Posted in language, media and pop culture, social attitudes
By Annaham on 18 October, 2009
[Author's note: I'd been meaning to submit this piece somewhere since earlier this year, but never got around to it. I know we're almost finished with 2009--so focusing on a charity calendar may seem a bit old meme, at least in internet time--but some of the issues that this campaign raises are, as they say, [...]
Posted in bodies, feminism, intersectionality, media and pop culture, normality, Uncategorized | Tagged body image, chronic pain conditions, feminism, fibromyalgia, media and pop culture
By s.e. smith on 18 October, 2009
abby jean’s post, “How Do We Understand This Experience?,” spun my brain off on a tangent about how disability issues are framed in the media and pop culture. Specifically, I read her post and then picked up a book I was in the process of reading and I came across the line “I couldn’t breathe. [...]
Posted in language, media and pop culture | Tagged disability in fiction, word use
By kaninchenzero on 13 October, 2009
In August the wife and I saw Adam, a romance featuring a person with Asperger’s Syndrome and a neurotypical. And it was really rather good, especially measured against other portrayals of autistic persons in popular culture. It is always astonishing how much of myself I see in depictions of people with AS, even when the [...]
Posted in identity, intersectionality, media and pop culture, mental health | Tagged ableism, autism, media and pop culture, mental illness
By Guest on 13 October, 2009
Everyone, please welcome our first guest poster, Arwyn of Raising My Boychick. Arwyn lives in the United States’ Pacific Northwest with The Man, the Boychick, bipolar type 2, and migraines. When the intersection of her neurology and the kyriarchal society she lives in allows, she writes feminist thoughts inspired by parenting a presumably-straight white probably-male [...]
Posted in guest post, language, media and pop culture, mental health
By Anna on 12 October, 2009
The family dynamics playing out here all feel very realistic to me. It’s obvious that they brought in someone to discuss seriously how one lives and recovers from such an accident, and talked a lot with the creators and writers about how disability plays out within a family. The Girardis are not victims of a horrible tragedy, and the focus of the show isn’t on how the able-bodied are recovering from the sudden burden of their eldest child. Instead, it’s a show that includes how families are affected when disability comes into their lives unexpectedly, and the way everyone involved copes, or doesn’t cope. Everyone is an individual, and no one is a prop or a very special message.
Posted in media and pop culture | Tagged chronic pain conditions, family, family dynamics, joan of arcadia, television, wheelchair users
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