The ableism in Tom Taylor’s Nightwing’s run just won’t stop. It’s become more than a pattern.
If Heartless is gonna be a shallow characture of a sadistic monster, why include non-verbal autistic traits to him? Why give him prosthetic limbs on top of the actual heart condition?
Thing is this has been a recurring theme in Nightwing run for awhile & disabled ppl have expressed criticism to Tom taylor before on social media & he’s just blocked them (me being one of em)
It’s feeling past ignorant to me at this point. all ppl in my Twitter replies & other discords are beyond sick of this. Every other issue it’s something else ableist. Lot of ppl are at point of saying it feels more than intentional, and I would prefer to believe it’s ignorance but I’m also really just past that point w/ all the nonsense.
With Babs being written so obtuse in this run where he writes her saying she couldn’t eat pizza in park before her implant, Nightwing manhandling a deaf man’s hearing aid, killing risk right after reintroducing him w/ a prosthetic arm. It’s just never stops in this god awful run!
Like I can put up with ableism in text if it’s actually calling out ableism. For example I just replayed Arkham asylum which largely does portray Arkham as this barbaric medical center nightmare with patients as main villains & plays off long standing ableist ideas of asylums as dangerous places w/ patients as evil & malicious, but the game largely points out fault within the corruption of the Arkham staff & highlights the mistreatment of patients from staff like w/ Scarecrow, Hugo Strange & warden Sharp. Whole reason game happens is cause of an arrogant doctor who was taking advantage of Bane being interned to develop a drug to make patients more “durable” for severe treatments & a corrupt security guard. So that I can swallow, cause at least it’s making a point, but this stuff in Nightwing, it’s just unkind & unnecessary. There’s no bigger point. It’s just there & ableist.
