Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby

I have never watched Million Dollar Baby. It won awards, people were talking about it, it was a big deal.  I considered watching it until I heard about the ending. I am so tired of every movie with a quadriplegic character in it being about how that character wants to die.  It is so trite and so ignorant.  It’s lazy on the part of the writers. From what I’ve heard the depiction of quadriplegia is over dramatic and unrealistic. I should watch it for the sake of completeness in my “research” of disability in the media, but I’d rather keep my sanity.  The only thing watching that movie is going to do for me is raise my blood...

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Posted by on Mar 6, 2011 in Disability Rights, Movies | 0 comments

Introduction

Disability issues are something that I am passionate about.   Here you’ll find my many opinions about disability rights and also reviews and suggestions of romances and other books you might enjoy that feature main characters who have physical disabilities. Check out the Current Fiction page to see my own contributions to the genre! Come on in and enjoy...

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Posted by on Mar 3, 2011 in Blog | 30 comments

PC Language

I don’t think that we are ever going to find a perfect way to refer to people with disabilities, unfortunately. There are a lot of kooky attempts to find politically correct language. As with all minorities and subgroups, different members will have different feelings about it and everyone should be respectful of that. There may be those who like the phrase “differently abled.” To me it sounds ridiculously, over-the-top cutesy and condescending. The phrase “handicappable” makes me want to throw up. But as usual, my opinion isn’t really the one that matters. Here’s an essay I like: “Differently-abled” There is no good word to use for this, there really isn’t. I resonate with the idea that society is what...

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Posted by on Feb 28, 2011 in Disability Rights | 0 comments