Unlike the related argument "ugh, it's just acting" which is problematic because it ignores the systemic level of discrimination in the industry, it at least allows for an interpretation that there's nothing wrong with disabled actors in those roles.
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To go a step further and suggest that a disabled actor in that role wouldn't be acting at all is to completely strip disabled people of individuality and personhood. It is premised on the idea that disabled people are functionally interchangeable
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AS I pointed out in a previous threadhttps://twitter.com/crippledscholar/status/955159993099177984 …
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The idea that people are attracted to the physicality of a cripped up performance is not a new critique. Actors are praised for the ways they contort their bodies to attempt to resemble disability
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It's also why disabled characters are so often simplistic stereotypes. The actual character isn't the source of the performance. The body is.
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This just feeds the idea that disabled people wouldn't be acting because their bodies come ready made. In reality though this allows them to actual make the character a character instead of a caricature
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Which is what we too often get when nondisabled people take those roles
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Disabled people can act
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Oh wow, I guess people like me, who became disabled at birth, don't exist. But if we did, we'd all have the exact same personality. That makes perfect sense. :P
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What are you talking about? You and I have been switching places for years and no one's even noticed. We're basically clones
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