The lack of disabled and people of difference in the media
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RacheleLeahSilvera
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This is an issue that I myself share strong views about and would love to hear what others think about the matter.
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There's also a lack of older people and people of colour, it's just the way of the world I suppose.2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming đź’ˇ
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There's also perhaps the fact that there are not so many disabled actors, etc., rather than disabled people, or other minorities not being accurately represented in the media. I don't feel that there's a conscious effort to exclude such people, in fact, at least there are more disabled people in the media nowadays. Do they always portray what others with their disorder might have to give a better understanding?
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chiarieds said:There's also perhaps the fact that there are not so many disabled actors, etc., rather than disabled people, or other minorities not being accurately represented in the media. I don't feel that there's a conscious effort to exclude such people, in fact, at least there are more disabled people in the media nowadays. Do they always portray what others with their disorder might have to give a better understanding?
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@RacheleLeahSilvera You might find this discussion 'Let's talk about the lack of disabled actors on television' thread interesting. Â
I agree - often where disabled characters are present, the storyline tends to revolve around the tragedy of their impairment rather than a realistic depiction of them living their everyday-life as a disabled person. Â Their bodily difference often becomes the plot-line which reinforces disabled people as different and harks back to the days of being spectacles and freak-shows. Â
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