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Do you agree or disagree that the media doesn't portray enough disabled people or doesn't portray them accurately? Interview the average person, and he can probably tell you way more about the struggle of gays, women, or other minority groups because of the media than they can about the very real discrimination that takes place between the able and disabled. For example, how many actors in wheelchairs do you see on TV? How many blind or deaf people do you see who are gainfully employed? How many people with highly functioning developmental disorders or mild autism do you see breaking the silence and admitting their disabilities to society?
We have a member of our extended family who has two major disabilities and is highly successful both from a social and monetary standpoint. He just powered through and is now laughing it off.
We have a member of our extended family who has two major disabilities and is highly successful both from a social and monetary standpoint. He just powered through and is now laughing it off.
You want to see Tom Cruise in a wheelchair?
That movie was done... "Born on the Fourth of July." It's true that the male and/or female lead rarely have disabilities in movies, unless the film actually centres around a character's struggles with a disability.
Disabilities are almost never shown in a casual way, like, hey, this character is a private detective who incidentally needs to use leg braces. Even supporting characters seldom have a disability. Unless, again, the focus is on their struggle with a disability. It does happen occasionally... like the dinner host in "Notting Hill" who happens to use a wheelchair. Boy, it's rare, though.
But that's Hollywood. Reality doesn't apply very often... Actors and their characters are unusually fit, blonde, fashionable, successful, affluent, and have no shortage of free time to spare in the movies. I guess the presence of disabilities would detract from that fantasy world.
I agree disabled people are heavily discriminated against my ex-wife was disabled walked with a bad limp due to birth defect. She had a masters degree from a very high end school and was turned down by several jobs even after 3-4 phone interviews once they saw her in person they changed their minds. I don't know why but it's almost a fear of disabled people I think people worry in their own minds if they are around disabled people they will become like that. I know this because one interviewer she had the manager was in such shock about her disability she could not get off the subject just kept asking about it. A co-worker who was born with CP walks with an extreme limp has a degree from penn state in Business Administration he is a secretary makes $14 an hour I have heard his manager make fun of the fact his admin has more education then him they call him wobbly goblin and gimp. I never see news media do any story's on this subject.
That is what I was going to say! It doesn't matter if it is news, documentaries, or entertainment. It is ALL slanted to portray what the director or producer wants it to portray.
You will never change it in any meaningful way, so you might as well learn to deal with it.
Anyone else here seen the image floating around the web showing all the blonde news anchors hired by Fox over the years? Hilarious, or it would be, if it weren't for the fact that it's true... some of them probably looked like normal people once, when they started out in journalism, but then they got a blonde makeover for their mass media debut on TV. This is what the media is today, in 2016. Hasn't changed much since Hollywood's golden era in the 1930's-50s.
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