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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I liked it, but the wheelchair/ handicap jokes were in very poor taste.  I am a wheelchair user and it just stings. I like Mindy Khaling and I liked this show, but it's very lame and old to have it be socially acceptable to make these kind of jokes (hey FDR). In 2020 it's time to just have a character in a wheelchair just be treated like a regular character (like in Raising Dion).  [/quote]

For better or worse, that would not be representative of what it's like to be a disabled teen. Kids are cruel. We should be allowed to tell stories that reflect reality. The kid that makes that joke isnt portrayed in a positive light [/quote]

Are you a disabled person?  Maybe watch Crip Camp to see what some of us have had to go through.  Disabled people are just people.  I don’t need ableism to discredit my complaint.   We are the last group where it is still socially acceptable to be treated “separate but equal” even today. No kids don’t go around calling people FDR. And many people in wheelchairs today aren’t dying to be able to walk.  The jokes were bad and give license to viewers to continue to treat us in this way.

Do you have jokes against Jews, blacks, gays?  I mean are kids are cruel, NBD right?[/quote]

Add to the fact that she had just lost her dad in a very public and tragic way - I can’t imagine kids would be so cruel after that. *Maybe* in 6th grade but not in 10th. It would’ve made more sense if her character felt “invisible”, etc. but for a guy to call her “un-f-able nerd” or “FDR” is off.

Regardless - I’m 3 episodes in and it’s cute. I don’t love it yet but I like it enough to keep watching. Its predictable and sentimental, but that’s the formula of these teen coming-of-age shows. But hey, I didn’t love the first couple of episodes of Schitt’s Creek and it became my favorite show in the world, so...we’ll see.[/quote]

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