Tag: they are people

I am not in wheel chair but I get a bad feel when I see a character in one being written as an innocent pure kind hearted angel who can do no wrong, like they are not given permission to be human like those who aren’t, by human I mean neither white or black but a mix, it’s a very common troupe in japanese media, do you have any opinion?

t4millennial:

The depiction of disabled people either being innocent untouchable angels or evil villains is dehumanizing and objectifying. 

One example is that I was speaking to a guy who said something offensive and when I pointed that out he got very angry, telling me that I had to be nice because people in wheelchairs were always nice. When I asked him where he got that assumption from he admitted that it was from TV and movies.

He was acting out a trope in which I either had to be nice and be one of those good people in wheelchairs or I was not allowed to exist because one of those bad people in wheelchairs always gets murdered by the hero.