#i mean even the etymology of the word ‘monster’ is tied 2 disability so! | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

rollercoasterwords · 9 months ago

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once u start reading like. even the bare bones intro beginner disability studies critiques it really does become like impossible 2 ignore how so many movies that involve character going from monstrous/nonhuman -> less monstrous/more human r essentially just ‘disabled character becomes less disabled’ lol

#lisa frankenstein gifset on the dash & suddenly i’m pondering….#also. poor things lol #also like 50% of horror movies #not even necessarily saying that these kinds of movies need 2 be unequivocally condemned as like Morally Bad etc but just #it’s like wild how deeply our cultural ideas of disability as like subhuman r entrenched #i mean even the etymology of the word ‘monster’ is tied 2 disability so!#more than 50% of horror movies if i’m being serious…#but also much of the time attempts 2 shore up the boundaries of ‘humanity’ r deeply conservative so. again unsurprising!#txt

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