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12:15 pm
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Inspiration in Odd Places
In a comment over on an old entry at Action For Autism, Kevin Leitch confirms that the anecdotal data contained within the United Kingdom's vaccine adverse reaction database is so poorly verified as to be essentially worthless.
We know full well there is an adverse reaction database. I, a UK resident, was able to make an entry into it stating that a vaccine turned my daughter into Wonder Woman. That’s how accurate and reliable it is.
...I think I may have the beginnings of a plotbunny.
Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Gnarls Barkley- "Crazy"
Tags: autism, fandom, humor, random
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11:28 pm
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Disability in Comics, Part II
( Data crunching under cut )
Pans
...for blind superheroes who aren't
...for Puck and his writers for prizing the appearance of normality over the ability to actually function in society
...for Saturn Girl's shame over her lack of verbal speech, despite having projective telepathy and despite this actually being the NORMAL state for her species
...for Claudette St. Croix, Legion, and all the other characters in temporary, intermittent, or permanent catatonic states who Marvel inexplicably chooses to call "autistic"
...for complete and utter lack of representation of the cognitively disabled
Pats
...for Mr Fantastic, Aspergian superhero who bucks the trend of Marvel having no clue about autism
...for speech-impaired superheroes using sign language, paraplegics with realistic wheelchairs, and amputees with plausible prosthetics
...for Black Manta, who responds to Aquaman curing his autism... by continuing to try to kill Aquaman!
...for Batgirl/Oracle, who doesn't let spinal injury keep her from being a superheroic badass- or a "big name" comics character
...for Dan DiDio, Denny O'Neil, and other editors at DC for recognizing her value as a prominent disabled hero and repeatedly refusing to cure her:
...And...that went nowhere. Denny shot it down, because, according to him, everybody loves Barbara Gordon as Oracle and as a handicapped character. The theory was that DC didn't have enough handicapped characters, so they weren't going to do anything with Barbara as she was. And the design went into the drawer.
Some stories... are so strong that undoing them would be a crime. The DCU would be a lesser place without Barry's sacrifice, or the crippling of Barbara at the hands of the Joker.
...for all the people in the comics industry who get it to at least some degree and, despite occasional errors, are legitimately trying to treat their disabled readers and characters with respect.
Current Mood: geeky
Current Music: Phil Collins- "In the Air Tonight"
Tags: data analysis, disability, fandom, media
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03:30 pm
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"Fixing" Oracle
So, there've been recent discussions going on in comics fandom over whether or not DC should let Booster Gold go back in time and retcon the events of The Killing Joke so that Barbara Gordon never gets shot and paralyzed. I haven't been participating at all since I don't really have much of an interest in most comics, Western or Eastern, but this, unsurprisingly, piqued my curiosity. Most of the debate that I've seen has centered around whether or not what happened to her fits the trope of "Women in Refrigerators", whether said trope is overinvoked, whether or not 'fixing' the events and letting her continue to be Batgirl is worth sacrificing her character development and role as Oracle (not to mention simultaneously retconning about a million other character's storylines), whether your "classic" version of a character should be called the "original" even if they had a predecessor or not, etc...
And in the middle of it, someone points out: Also, I think changing it would detract from DC's one prominent disabled character whose disability doesn't have anything to do with their "powers".
So, here's some actual data on that:
( Disability in Comics, according to Wikipedia )
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: The Cure- "Kyoto Song"
Tags: data points, disability, fandom, media, more data please
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