Tanya McGee Wheatley 💜☘️Why is it that authors who portray visually impaired people in their books always portray them as having had surgery or some miracle to give them sight as the way to go? Why not have a totally or partially blind person be the genius detective or whatever? Why must that person have once been blind but can now see? #Blind #BlindFrustration #PetPeeve
Steve Mann@blindquilter Maybe because none of the authors in question are blind?
@maerlynofmiria Possibly but why not just make the character fully sighted instead of making them less capable unless they have sight? 🤷♀️
@blindquilter Because ableism is the last bastian of idiots these days. It's no longer possible to use racial stereotypes in a story without getting lynched in the court of public opinion, but since disability laws have no teeth, the same people who'd have put racial stereotypes in stories a half century ago have to use disability in the same way.