Date: 2009-12-06 02:33 pm (UTC)
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Awesome. So we can interpret it as an acceptable way of gawking at the disabled? (Since she's fictional all, it won't hurt her.)

I understand the reasons behind it. That doesn't make it okay. I think that it's lazy storytelling and a hurtful stereotype; not all people with disabilities are pining after normal. It also implies that the loss of use to her arm is a terrible, terrible tragedy and that's not okay either.

Overcoming emotional trauma is equally problematic. It's not a well-thought out premise. I'm not sure that there is a better solution here, given that the show would be tossing it in the face of one group or another. Man, I love self-determination, but it's so close to bootstraps sometimes, and that's a terrible mind-set to adopt.

Her getting out of the predicament with only one arm would have been awesome! Maybe that would have been the best way to deal with the situation, though it doesn't erase the problems with Bennett herself and also stands the potential of falling into the super crip category if handled poorly.
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