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Disability and
Ability
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Colin Barnes
• 10 stereotypes of disabled people in media:– Pitiable or pathetic– Object of curiosity or violence– Sinister or evil– The super cripple– As atmosphere– Laughable– His/her own worst enemy– Burden– Non-sexual– Unable to participate in daily life
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• Most common stereotype
• Shown to be deserving ofpity when faced withdifficulty or prejudice
• Charity appeals have oftenused this representation
Pitiable or pathetic
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Object or curiosity or violence
• Presenting people as unusual
• Disability is something to be viewed / observed
• Difference is highlighted and made a spectacle
• Puts disabled and non-disabled people in binary opposition when they are not
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Super cripple
• Position of admiration despite disability
• Patronising in some ways – e.g. admiring attitude of people with disabilities
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Humour
• Pleasure in the misfortune of others (schadenfreunde)
• Disability seen as source of humour since the Ancient Greeks
• Humour based on disability
• Or humour despite of it
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Sinister or evil
• Scarring and disability as short cut for evil
• Scarring and disabilityoften used to signifyviolence or anger
• Joker / Freddy Krueger