{"id":2756,"date":"2009-11-22T11:14:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T11:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2009\/11\/22\/thoughts-on-glee\/"},"modified":"2009-11-22T11:14:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T11:14:14","slug":"thoughts-on-glee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2756","title":{"rendered":"thoughts-on-glee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glee<\/em> recently aired an episode called "Wheels." The episode focused on one of the supporting characters who happens to be a paraplegic, though in real life the actor is not. He can walk. Of course, many in the disability community are upset and disappointed that a real disabled actor wasn’t cast in this role, and they saw this episode as more of an insult.
\nSo, who cares? I don’t. I found the episode to be very sweet, and I enjoyed the fact that tv shows are no longer shying away from characters with disabilities.
\nA year ago, two years ago, longer than that, when you’d see a character with a disability on the screen, it was mostly meant to tug at your emotions. Bring out the kleenex because here’s the pity party. Mary is in a wheelchair, she can’t do shit. Really. This cop will save the day. And everything is perfect again. On tv.
\nOn Private Practice<\/em> the disabled doctor, Fife, is a jerk. I totally hate and love him. I want him to hook up with Naomi, and I want the writers to go there. I like that he’s not treated differently. He’s a freaking doctor! And he’s disabled in real life.
\nAnd then there’s Glee<\/em>. I remember high school, and inaccessible areas, and having to miss out on certain things. I thought, if people could just understand what it was like to be me, then maybe kids would be nicer. Glee<\/em> isn’t out to preach, nor is it perfect. But if it makes even just one person think, then I’m not going to criticize it for having an abled actor in a role that might have gone to a disabled actor. I won’t when it’s bringing us to the forefront.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glee recently aired an episode called "Wheels." The episode focused on one of the supporting characters who happens to be a paraplegic, though in real life the actor is not. He can walk. Of course, many in the disability community are upset and disappointed that a real disabled actor wasn’t cast in this role, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}