『He has kids?! What my 4-year-old taught me about invisible bias +Audio』のカバーアート

He has kids?! What my 4-year-old taught me about invisible bias +Audio

He has kids?! What my 4-year-old taught me about invisible bias +Audio

無料で聴く

ポッドキャストの詳細を見る
When my kids were little, my husband and I took them with us to see the film Wampler’s Ascent at the ReelAbilities Film Festival. The movie centers a man named Steve Wampler who has a severe form of cerebral palsy, and his journey to climb the 3,000-foot vertical face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.At the time I thought it would be cool for my kids to see a film featuring a person with a disability and to see how that person engineered a solution to achieve their goal. However, rather than being blown away by the fact that this man figured out how to climb a literal mountain, my 4 year old was blown away by something else.As we watched the movie, and new people came onto the screen, this is how our conversation went.Her: “Is that his mom?”Me: “No. That’s his wife.”Her (with wide eyes and a shocked face): “WHAT?? He has a wife?!?”Then, a short while later, when two teenagers come onto the screen…Her: “Who are they?”Me: “Those are his kids.”Her (again, with wide eyes and a shocked face): “He has kids?!?”I sat there slack-jawed, wondering how, at FOUR YEARS OLD, these biases were already baked into her.A man with cerebral palsy being married.A man with cerebral palsy having kids.These things shocked her way more than a man with cerebral palsy innovating a solution to climb the giant flat rock face of El Capitan while managing spasticity and limited function in his arms and legs.How did this happen? How were these biases already so ingrained in her mind before she reached kindergarten — especially when our family regularly spent time in the company of others who have disabilities? When she has a disability herself?Sigh.My heart broke a little as I considered what she will have to overcome just to believe that she, herself, is worthy of the same things most people take for granted. Relationships. A partner. Kids. A job she loves. My kid’s perspective didn’t come from nowhere; her brain formed these thoughts from the invisible messages we hear every day. When we only see disability portrayed in stereotypical ways, and when we don’t see those with disabilities doing typical life things like getting married and having kids, it leave a void that our minds fill with assumptions.As disability rights advocate Haben Girma beautifully wrote: “When we see more people with disabilities in the media, we begin to perceive disabilities as part of the normal spectrum of human experience.”What we see is what we believeDid you know that only 2% of speaking characters in last year’s films were portrayed as having a disability? This woefully underrepresents disability as a human condition. When we look at the U.S. Census, 27% of Americans have a disability (yes, that’s one out of every four people).Even worse is that when disability is included, the stories often perpetuate inaccurate and harmful stereotypes. I am going to take you through the most common ones, and the messages they send to all of us.Cure at All Costs* Message: All disabilities must, and should, be cured.* Overrepresented story: A character starts with a disability, but is later “fixed” through medical intervention, miracles, or magic.* How it’s harmful: This promotes disability as a flaw to be corrected, completely ignoring it as a valid, natural part of the human condition. Some disabilities don’t get cured, and that’s ok. Challenge: Pretend you recently acquired a permanent spinal cord injury.While you are trying to navigate your new reality, and trying to find your way to acceptance, every show you watch tells you that your life is a tragedy unless a miracle ‘fixes’ you.Would seeing these stories make it easier or harder for you to focus on living your life to its fullest, exactly as you are?What if, instead, you saw characters with spinal cord injuries portrayed as everyday people with multifaceted lives?A Burden / Object of Pity* Message: An individual with a disability is entirely helpless, tragic, and suffering.* Overrepresented story: Disabled characters shown having an emotional or financial drain on their loved ones, sometimes even choosing to end their lives so they can stop being a burden.* How it’s harmful: It sways audiences to believe that a disabled life is inherently a life not worth living.Challenge: Pretend you or your child was born with a disability.How would it affect you and your self-worth, or your child’s self-worth, to constantly see characters like you portrayed as a tragic burden who would be better off not existing?How would you think others saw you?The ‘Evil Cripple’* Message: Having an impairment causes or is the result of a warped soul or moral failing.* Overrepresented story: A bitter villain whose primary motivation for evil deeds stems directly from resentment about their disability.* How it’s harmful: It pairs physical or psychological differences directly with evil, generating subconscious fear of, pity towards, and aversion to people with ...
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
まだレビューはありません