Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Physical Data Model, Masculinity, Deconstruction

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Representation matters: otherness , fear, and the suppression of knowledge about how people live with disabilities (95, dependent, pitiful, asexual, super-humanly heroic, inspirational. Intersections of femininity: spoiling a woman"s value/appearance: masculinity: murderball! Disabled bodies marked as negatively different and less valuable than the taken for granted" (norm) of the able body . Wheelchair symbol to signify disability/rehabilitation from the 60s. Old symbol represented wheelchair users as passive: new symbols depict users as active, or broaden the range of disabilities and abilities represented. The interaction of the biological and the social to create (or prevent) disability (91) A physical condition is not necessarily disabling, but can become disabling in certain social environments (92) Wendell is challenging the medical model of disability: the assumption thata disability is a personal problem that individuals must overcome on their own (96) Prioritization of good business over the moral and legal duty to accommodate.

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