FEM 2110 Lecture 8: Fem2110 Practice Questions and Answers
10 Jul 2016
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Give two examples of supercrip representations in our popular culture. Superscrips focus on the idea that disabled people are overcoming their impairment but really they"re overcoming the conditions of social barriers. However positive, these narratives always assume that a disability is always undesirable, and (in a best case scenario) can be heroically endured or overcome. They reinforce the superiority of the nondisabled body and mind. They turn individual disabled people, who are simply leading their lives, into symbols of inspiration. Assumption is that people with disabilities would rather be like us . In the creation of supercrip stories, nondisabled people don"t celebrate any particular achievement, however extraordinary or mundane. Rather, these stories rely upon the perception that disability and achievement contradict each other and that any disabled person who overcomes this contradiction is heroic. To believe that achievement contradicts disability is to pair helplessness with disability, a pairing for which crips pay an awful price.
