I wish I still had that "Harshing your Glee Squee" icon

[trouble]

Did you know that the folks behind Glee were explicitly invited to a best practices panel on disability at a major industry conference in Hollywood this past summer and turned them down?

Because, I guess, actually working with people with disabilities in the industry to talk about representation and stuff is too much work for someone getting awards for diversity while publicly mocking disability rights advocates and activists who have talked about the problems with Glee and representations of disability.

I will have more details about this later.

Comments

[ilyena_sylph]

...*facepalm*

[trouble]

Apparently Family Guy could make it out, but Glee could not.

[metonymy]

And when you're doing worse than FAMILY GUY.........

[deird1]

That's...

I don't even know.

*fumes*

[ironed_orchid]

What?

[crossedwires]

If they're winning awards, they must be doing everything right, right? *headdesk*

Will Shuester should be the poster model for PDD.

[marina]

Will Shuester should be the poster model for PDD.

OMG YES, THIS.

[lauredhel]

Took me a while to figure that one out. I think it's worth spelling out in full, especially in disability spaces, because to many (most?) of us that means "Pervasive Developmental Disorder", and at first I thought you were being horrifically offensive.

[crossedwires]

Sorry about that! And thanks for letting me know. I'll remember to do so in the future.

[tiferet]

Considering its origins it might be best not to say "poster boy/child/girl" at all. I'm not offended and don't require an apology, it's just a thought--poster children are those sad-eyed pathetic looking disabled, poor or third-world children that specious charities and proselytising missionary orgs use in their promotional materials to beg for money.

[lauredhel]

they what now?

I await more.

[originalpuck]

Oh fuck them. I can't wait to see the details about this.

[torachan]

Why am I not surprised.

[tiferet]

I'm not either. Why would we be.

I watch this show because I love Kurt and Mercedes and I think Brittany is all kinds of hilarious, and also because my friends like it and I want to know what they're talking about--but the rest of it just kind of really deeply annoys me or offends me.

[silveradept]

Yeah, that makes all sorts of logical sense, Glee people...

[allies_person]

Am so not surprised, at all. Wouldn't want someone telling them that disabled actors should play disabled characters.