#this is about a specific fandom but i won't say

I think... Sometimes... It's reasonable to say "hey this character is horrible/a villain/etc but their disability that they got during/after/before the story isn't their punishment so cut it off". But sometimes... Also... The writers clearly intended it to be read that way. The writers clearly wrote their disability... To be their punishment... And the narrative works to reinforce that position... Sometimes I think we just need to admit that the most ableist people in the fandom were the people who made the source media and the behaviour of the fandom is actually in line and what the writers would have wanted them to get out of the media so criticising the ableism in fandom of an inherently ableist piece of fiction is trying to catch smoke. But maybe that's just me.

#jay rambles about life.txt #this is about a specific fandom but I won't say #because it happens often enough for it to matter #I'm not against disabled villains or morally gray character but people rarely manage to escape the mentality that disability is a punishmen #to write them consistently and considerably enough for that statement to be correct. and by people I don't only mean able-bodied people #you are Not Immune to Internalised Ableism™#jay discourse hours yaaay