*headdesk*
From an interview with Gail Simone about making Barbera Gordon into Batgirl again:
For many years, Babs has had to shoulder the responsibility of being one of the very few heroes with a disability, one of the few in a wheelchair who doesn't psionically get up and go for a stroll every few years. That is also a problem that needs addressing. And I promise, we are working on it, we have some catching up to do.
So, by this logic, they are working on addressing the problem of having heroes with a disability by removing the disability from one of the most well know physically disabled characters out there. And this is working on the problem how exactly? By making her fully-abled again with some sort of cure? Or taking her back to a time before Killing Joke and removing all the character development from while she was disabled?
I'm not sure which idea makes me want to throw up more.
Any way you look at it, it's making disabled people invisible again or relegating them to the role of someone to be rescued. Fuck that.
This is a wonderful article by Jill Pantozzi, who has MD and has been in a wheelchair for the last 14 years, on why it's such a fuck up.
For many years, Babs has had to shoulder the responsibility of being one of the very few heroes with a disability, one of the few in a wheelchair who doesn't psionically get up and go for a stroll every few years. That is also a problem that needs addressing. And I promise, we are working on it, we have some catching up to do.
So, by this logic, they are working on addressing the problem of having heroes with a disability by removing the disability from one of the most well know physically disabled characters out there. And this is working on the problem how exactly? By making her fully-abled again with some sort of cure? Or taking her back to a time before Killing Joke and removing all the character development from while she was disabled?
I'm not sure which idea makes me want to throw up more.
Any way you look at it, it's making disabled people invisible again or relegating them to the role of someone to be rescued. Fuck that.
This is a wonderful article by Jill Pantozzi, who has MD and has been in a wheelchair for the last 14 years, on why it's such a fuck up.