A lot of ableism isn't deliberate: that makes it more pernicious! A walker is representing being at lower faculty, by your description.
I tweeted this on the other site: "The way walkers are used in media/culture is truly revolting -- & this rep prevents ppl from using what is a useful tool."
Using the walker on the magazine cover is not deliberately ableist.
And at some point people are going to have to learn discernment and how to view creative media within the context it’s presented.
The walker on the cover is to the point of an elderly person no longer being at full faculty.
oh, so the walker represents him being "lame" in the figurative sense, not *literally* lame. I used to be lame a lot of the time before I had spinal surgery but it didn't make me outdated/obsolete/unhip/square and it didn't damage my media literacy of how slurs work
It's saying people who are lame in the physical sense must necessarily be so in a mental sense and therefore unfit to lead the country. It's gross.
I can't see the blocked post but I HAVE seen that cover. Blech.
