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for your disabled characters list: the Cheetah from Wonder Woman, aka Barbara Ann Minerva, is a cane user in her human form in both WW vol 2 and 4 (not sure about others), but seems to be 'cured' in her cheetah form. And yes, Joey got not one, but two villain arcs. Both times, he got magicured, and it seems to have held even after he stopped being evil the second time. I didn't read the arc in which that happened so idk why or how.
thank you for the answer anon
ugh get good @ DC
Dr. L. E. Keeley's Double Chloride of Gold Cure for Drunkenness Label, 8/10/1880
At best the Gold Cure was a placebo, but the routine and group support offered at Keeley’s inpatient facility may have helped some people.
File Unit: 2324 - Dr. L. E. Keeley's Double Chloride of Gold Cure for Drunkenness - Leslie E. Keeley, 1874 - 1940
Series: Case Files for Registered Product Labels , 1874 - 1940
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
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So, yesterday I saw a post going around arguing that high rates of autoimmune disease, chronic pain etc among women are linked to/caused by women suppressing anger more than men, and I guess promoting the importance of...idk, accepting your anger? Feeling your feelings? Getting therapy? It might not have actually gotten to what you’re supposed to do with the idea, I don’t remember.
It’s completely plausible there’s a connection there. Chronic stress contributes to a wide range of health problems, and acute stress becomes stress when people have their sympathetic nervous system triggered (fight or flight response) and don’t “complete the cycle”. Stress management is actually very important for managing a lot of health conditions including mine, and preventing health conditions from forming.
And. It also rubs me the wrong way. Because, you see, just like the world we live in thinks being cishet is normal and being queer demands some sort of explanation, the world we live in thinks that certain types of bodies and abilities are normal and anything that deviates from that is anomalous and doesn’t really fit and shouldn’t you just be able to do yoga or something and make it go away?
I haven’t been getting much in the way of “what about yoga” or “what about kale” or what about vitamins or whatever. I’ve personally been getting “what about therapy.”
And moreover, “what about therapy” from doctors who seemed to not hear the bit about “some days I can’t shower.” Like. Even if therapy was going to cure me eventually, I’d still be DISABLED and need help with activities of daily living in the meantime.
I wish I could trust that everyone just understood that “chronic stress can contribute to chronic illnesses” does NOT mean that people with chronic illnesses could just cure themselves by figuring out their feelings better and therefor anyone who’s still sick just isn’t trying hard enough. But you know a lot of people are going to take it that way.
Because that’s the world we live in.
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I never thought I would meet someone who told me they could cure my diabetes with crystals...
also i know i’m a couple years late with this take
but if DC was *really* concerned about barbara being a woman in refrigerator or it being a result of sexist trope or whatever because of killing joke
they could have kept her as oracle but let her have been paralyzed in a way that wasn’t to make a man sad? like you know how bruce’s (temporary) paralysis plot was all about him? They could have re-writ canon while they were reshuffling the universe to make hers be about her (but still not temporary)
like IIRC they even drag out the killing joke stuff for angst in batgirl (2011)* so its not like they actually care that it was a result of sexist story telling. they just wanted abled magicuring.
*IIRC there’s a batgirl in burnside plot where someone has a picture of batgirl in a wheelchair and batgirl is freaking out cuz... idk able bodied writers. i could be wrong cuz i only read this once because it was terrible. there’s also the leadup to the death of the family plotline earlier in the series
able bodied comics fan: will you ever get over Barbara not being Oracle anymore? It's been almost 10 years...
me, a disabled: IDK, do you know how rare it was for us to have a wheelchair user who did more as a wheelchair user than she ever did as an able bodied person? How rare it is for someone to say that their life is different and possibly even better after becoming disabled? call me back after the only person w/ your physical ability who was portrayed in a positive, 3 dimensional light gets retconned out of existence.
[image: a series of comic panels from Birds of Prey (1998). we see Barbara Gordon in her wheelchair in an alley. In front of her is a blond man with a gun, and on her side are three other men in suits holding guns. Barbara is turning and looking at them.
BARBARA: I haven't done anything. What are the charges?
BLOND GUY: Ma'am, we're at a high terrorism risk. Your concerns are not a priority at this time.
one of them men takes a syringe out of his pocket and walks behind barbara.
SYRINGE GUY: I want you to make a fist, Ms Gordon. Can you do that for me?
BARBARA: Funny you should ask.
barbara punches the man in the groin and he bends over and is shoved back form the force and drops his syringe.
the next panel shows another man running and turning the corner with his gun raised.
GUY: Hey, it's a dead end back here!
an escrima stick is launched at his face from off panel and breaks his sunglasses. Barbara then hits him with her remaining stick in the face really hard, knocking a tooth out and knocking him back. Blood comes out from his mouth. a bald man behind barbara whacks her in the back of the head, she immediately turns and hits him in the stomach with her stick.
the final panel shows four men carrying barbara away.
BLOND MAN: You guys... I love this. I do. I can't wait to explain how a crippled broad took down five agents. end image]
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I think one thing that new 52/rebirth babs lost was exactly how badass barbara was as a disabled woman.
people always underestimate her (in NML I’m pretty sure someone’s invading her base with a bunch of swat guys and says something like she’s a girl in a wheelchair how hard can it be?) and they are always, always wrong to do so.
she’s never portrayed as less competent than an able bodied hero, in nightwing, tarantula mentions that barbara would have won the fight against her but dick wound up cramping her style (he accidentally kicked her in the face while leaping... it wasn’t one of his proudest moments).
she has a ton of defense on her bases and has possibly the best computer system and database of knowledge in the world but she is also capable of throwing down and i don’t think that anyone in an editorial place in DC really cares how rare that is for a character in a wheelchair or what we lost when they magicured her. we never get to see people like us being powerful, but they don’t care.
of course if you ever want to see if a wheelchair using character temporarily gets magicured plot was actually written by a wheelchair user
(which: hint, it never is. it is always always some able bodied shithead)
just check to see if, when they stand up, they are weirded out by everyone being way shorter than they should be
i was in physical therapy and i thought my therapist was taller than me. i get up on the standy bars and he seemed short AS FUCK. even though he was my height. because i normally am sitting down when interacting w/ people outside the house.
