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#harping on about his weight and using ‘fat’ as a perjorative?
ladiesoftheages
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Someone remind me sometime to post my essay about the way people talk about Henry VIII
#i’m a disability studies major
#and one of the most common topics of conversation in dis studs
#is the relationship between disability and villains
#and that people with disabilities are often made out to be villains
#but villains are also made out to have disabilities
#because disability is a manifestation of inner evil
#shakespeare famously did this with r3
#but it’s an idea that goes back pretty much to the bible
#and this idea is so ingrained in our culture we do it withiut thinking
#and people absolutely do this with h8
#calling him a monster…guess what?
#that’s a manifestation of this idea
#harping on about his weight and using ‘fat’ as a perjorative?
#that’s also a manifestation of this
#for people that don’t like h8; it’s not enough for him to have just done bad things
#he also has to be grotesque and deformed because that just proves how evil he really was
#it’s funny the number of times people have talked about h8 in this way to me
#and i’m like…girl if only you knew that i’m a disabled person whose academic career is literally dedicated to this very subject
#and you’re just feeding me even more evidence that proves my point
#but i digress…
#henry viii
#also don’t even get me started on the people who have gotten mad at me for saying h8 was disabled
#because as well as people who villainize disability
#there are also people that sanctify it
#and think that all disabled people are perfect little angels who can do no wrong
#(the overwhelming message you get from doing disability studies is that people’s attitudes on disability are just fucking WEIRD
#and why can’t anyone just be NORMAL)
#disability
#disability studies
#i wonder how many people actually read the tags…
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