[stylist] email to Opra

[Angela fowler]

Right on, Judith. Its funny how narrow-mindedness and bigotry get overlooked
when blind people are the victims.  

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From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Judith Bron
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:16 PM
To: Stylist
Subject: [stylist] email to Opra

Here is what I sent to Opra.  I couldn't access the form on her site so I
sent it to Ann Tailor at NFB.  Judith

 

I find your opinion on the movie, "Blindness", appalling.  Perhaps you saw
the heroic woman getting her due but I'm surprised that you didn't look at
the plot of the movie and see that her heroism is on the back of blind
people.  Blind people, as depicted in the movie, are helpless, disgusting
and totally dependent on the sighted community to even use a bathroom.  This
depiction underestimates the progress of the blind community over the past
century.  If you go to an NFB convention I'm positive you will see clean
floors, educated people having a good time while enjoying intelligent
conversation and individuals eating with the same manners most mothers teach
their children . Weather it was intentional or not, your article tells the
world that the positive depiction of a woman is what stands out in this
movie that paints one segment of the disabled community in a way that is not
only disgusting, but totally inaccurate.  These comparisons in movies or
books when talking about o  ther minorities or social underdogs have usually
been called as what they are, bigoted, narrow minded portrayals.  

Judith Bron  

 
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