{"id":1399,"date":"2008-06-11T03:40:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T08:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2010-11-23T23:39:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T04:39:37","slug":"representing-the-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/11\/representing-the-disabled\/","title":{"rendered":"Representing the Disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Elizabeth A. at blogofstench<\/a> sent us her post<\/a> on this ad for “Disaboom, a site of news, networking and such for people with disabilities and their hangers-on.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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She notes how the site and the ad challenge the stereotype of disabled people as asexual but, much like Viktoria in Bizarre magazine<\/a>, does so by conforming to normative standards of attractiveness.\u00a0 But I really liked her observations regarding the extent of his disability. She writes:<\/p>\n

…not only is this guy the picture of modern white bourgeois hegemonic masculinity, but I can’t shake the feeling that he’s also passing as non-disabled. Tattoos aside, he looks like a non-disabled guy sitting down in a chair that just happens to have wheels. While some people indeed use wheelchairs with no back and no handlebars and a low-slung profile, other people with disabilities have much more obvious tools that they use; an electric wheelchair, for example, can have six wheels, headlights and tail lights, a control box with joystick and horn, storage pouches on either side, footrests, leg braces, head rest, reclining seat, adjustable cushions and posture support, a backpack on the back and an obvious computer on board, all of which are much more obvious than a discreet little set of wheels under your butt… I feel that the Disaboom ad downplays the unavoidable obviousness of some mobility aids in its attempt to make the guy in the picture seem more stereotypically “non-disabled.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not to mention, I might add, a disability that interferes with urination and defecation or one that caused involuntary body movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth A. at blogofstench sent us her post on this ad for “Disaboom, a site of news, networking and such for people with disabilities and their hangers-on.”\u00a0 She notes how the site and the ad challenge the stereotype of disabled people as asexual but, much like Viktoria in Bizarre magazine, does so by conforming to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[345,329,120],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-disability","tag-emotion","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29483,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/29483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}