PSA for writers:
Let me first give a couple examples of the horrible "Magic Legs" trope!
Professor Xavier in the #Xmen series could walk for most of season 2 because *on Genosha his powers were suppressed... Therefore he could walk*
My goodness that's so damn ridiculous
Let me first give a couple examples of the horrible "Magic Legs" trope!
Professor Xavier in the #Xmen series could walk for most of season 2 because *on Genosha his powers were suppressed... Therefore he could walk*
My goodness that's so damn ridiculous
https://twitter.com/fast_read/status/1378095747258802183
Maybe don't write a plot where you send a wheelchair user to a tropical island with no wheelchair access! How hard is that?!
So let's discuss how this ridiculous trope is why people think disabled people will be magically healed!
So let's discuss how this ridiculous trope is why people think disabled people will be magically healed!
How this trope has contributed to people actually pulling disabled people out of their chairs and taking away their mobility aids because abled people think we just need the right motivation or situation to be normal!
The #Xmen series and #WolverineandtheXmen give professor X magic legs with little to no explanation for how it's even working.
They definitely don't address that man who's been using a wheelchair for decades wouldn't be able to just stand up, climb a mountain and do a back flip
They definitely don't address that man who's been using a wheelchair for decades wouldn't be able to just stand up, climb a mountain and do a back flip
A recent example of "magic legs" used as ambulatory wheelchair user erasure is #DoomPatrol
This is my one complaint about this series.
This is my one complaint about this series.
In the spinoff episode of #Titans that introduces the Doom Patrol (DP) Niles has recovered from a broken back but once reinjured he must use his wheelchair again
In the series premiere Niles (recast) is now a full time wheelchair user (no explanation for his immobility is given)
In the series premiere Niles (recast) is now a full time wheelchair user (no explanation for his immobility is given)
Like we're waiting for season 3 and an explanation for how this jerk was paralyzed to begin with!
But I digress...
During season 1 Niles is kidnapped by a villain and returns with "Magic Legs"! No explanation is given to how this paralyzed man is now fully mobile.
But after defeating this villain, no more magic legs... I really don't see how the ability to walk was needed!
During season 1 Niles is kidnapped by a villain and returns with "Magic Legs"! No explanation is given to how this paralyzed man is now fully mobile.
But after defeating this villain, no more magic legs... I really don't see how the ability to walk was needed!
He was still just the brains of the operation! He couldn't suddenly do Judo! So whyyyy?!
🙄 I am sure the Writers will tell me they have a reason he needed to not walk/walk/not walk but that's some bullshit
🙄 I am sure the Writers will tell me they have a reason he needed to not walk/walk/not walk but that's some bullshit
Why didn't they just have the character as an ambulatory wheelchair user???
Magic Legs really don't ever make sense that I've seen. So I suggest people simply write characters that are not full-time chair users. See the Disability spectrum and use it to be more creative
Magic Legs really don't ever make sense that I've seen. So I suggest people simply write characters that are not full-time chair users. See the Disability spectrum and use it to be more creative
And while you're at it stop putting goddamn blankets on the legs of wheelchair users that obviously aren't cold!
STOP! Stop the FDRing!
STOP! Stop the FDRing!
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