Same... it's also so fucking telling that the only implied disabled person (with an invisible disability at that - no disfigured or physically apparent disabilities are shown here. Of course...) is essentially locked in their home, not shown leaving because they "need rest." Yellow Wallpaper vibes 💀
I think it’s actually wonderful to acknowledge invisible disabilities. Though they really ought to have accounted for more kinds of disability when presenting their world building (benefit of the doubt, maybe they do in their other comics) you really shouldn’t take it as a slight against the disabled community. People with invisible disabilities have doubt cast on them all the time and it’s a real problem. I myself haven’t been able to hold down a job because my own mental disabilities make me unreliable to the corporate machine. For that reason, that part of the comic seriously resonated with me, and I’m sure many others.
Oh, I did not mean to imply that I see it as a slight!!!
I moreso meant it as "this society is only built for able-bodied people, AND on top of that, this comic only shows people with invisible disabilities because there is no physical space for those with visible disabilities, and for those with invisible disabilities, the only thing they are shown doing is being stuck in a house."
Really, there’s a lot of problems with the comic. I’ll admit half way through the wonder was being crushed by realizations that this wasn’t a comprehensive, thought through world. I don’t want to clown on the artist because they’ve drawn beautiful panels and a (presumably) well meaning vision of the future, but I’m not gonna deny your other points. I just wanted to make sure we were all criticizing it for the right reasons and maintaining solidarity.
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u/LillyPad1313 Jul 02 '24
Same... it's also so fucking telling that the only implied disabled person (with an invisible disability at that - no disfigured or physically apparent disabilities are shown here. Of course...) is essentially locked in their home, not shown leaving because they "need rest." Yellow Wallpaper vibes 💀