Yeah... I'm particularly proud of that one, 'cause it shows how ableism cuts both ways -- and how pervasive it is, and harmful to everyone in society. Because once you're aware of how "idealization of ability" works, than that explains why a judge is willing to sentence a young man convicted of violent rape to just six months in prison because of his athletic promise, but we're willing to publicly shame a wheelchair user for standing up in the supermarket to reach a can of soup.
And yeah -- the social model of disability is often built on the moral model, as you point out.
Not to mention the trend in our fiction of making the villains in stories disabled/disfigured as a matter of course.
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Yeah... I'm particularly proud of that one, 'cause it shows how ableism cuts both ways -- and how pervasive it is, and harmful to everyone in society. Because once you're aware of how "idealization of ability" works, than that explains why a judge is willing to sentence a young man convicted of violent rape to just six months in prison because of his athletic promise, but we're willing to publicly shame a wheelchair user for standing up in the supermarket to reach a can of soup.
And yeah -- the social model of disability is often built on the moral model, as you point out.
Not to mention the trend in our fiction of making the villains in stories disabled/disfigured as a matter of course.