Chronic Illness on Yik Yak | hot take: personally don’t find the whole “disabled villain” fictional trope all that offensive, because turning into a nihilistic misanthrope is actually a perfectly logical* reaction to experiencing a lifetime of ableism from all sides

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Chronic Illness 2w

hot take: personally don’t find the whole “disabled villain” fictional trope all that offensive, because turning into a nihilistic misanthrope is actually a perfectly logical* reaction to experiencing a lifetime of ableism from all sides

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Anonymous 2w

* disclaimer: “logical” does not imply that this is a good or harmless thing, just that it makes total sense from a cause-and-effect perspective

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Anonymous 2w

I took a class on Shakespeare’s Richard the III (where he has a visible difference of some sort) and disability and we talked a lot about this! Super interesting

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