The Shape of Water (2017) dir. Guillermo del Toro
The literally silent women protagonist leaves a super bad taste in my mouth.
She’s deaf and speaks with sign language, she’s not a silent woman. Like, can we agree that deaf representation in media is important? Can we agree that ASL representation in media is important? This is an adult-oriented romance/sci-fi movie where the female lead is a deaf woman. How can you act like this isn’t significant? The last gif has a deaf woman in the 60s standing up to an aggressive man and telling him to go fuck himself.
This movie is doing something that has probably never been done before. But hey, she can’t talk “normally” like a hearing woman and that’s bad, so go off I guess.
reblogging this as an example of ableist feminists that me and @onewordtest have discussed in the past.
oh man, not this shit again. can abled feminists just stop?
um, but, also she’s not deaf. she’s hearing and mute. (personally, I think she’s gonna read as autistic from everything I’ve seen). which is still a disabled female romantic lead character, which is still great representation and important.
