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Date Posted: 14:08:12 12/14/06 Thu
Author: Islandgirl
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CSI:NY and handicapped people

I have to say that CSI:NY has taken two strikingly different attitudes toward handicapped people in different episodes within the past month.
About a month ago, they had an episode featuring a teenage girl who had been left paralyzed from the waist down after a drunk-driving accident. The girl was later murdered in her hospital room and -- while the detectives did investigate the killing as a homicide -- several of them expressed the view that the murderer probably did it out of love. As if being in a wheelchair is such a TERRIBLE thing that it is a "kindness" to kill a person rather than having them spend the rest of their life in a wheelchair.
Now, I happen to have a brother who has been in a wheelchair for the last 20 years, so I STRONGLY object to the idea that such people are "better off" dead!!
Then last night's episode featured a deaf family. Deaf mom, deaf dad, deaf teenage daughter and deaf (presumably, although I'm not sure one could tell for sure at that age) infant granddaughter. The family was very big into expressing the idea that there wasn't anything "wrong" with them, that deaf was "just the way we are" and that being deaf isn't even something people should *TRY* to cure, because it's not really a "disablity".
I just find this attitude on the part of the writers weird. Apparently they regard being unable to walk as a HORRIBLE thing, a fate which is, literally, worse than death. But they regard deafness as no big deal.
This is especially strange to me because, if you put a gun to my head and forced me to choose one or the other, I'd prefer to lose my ability to walk rather than my ability to hear.

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guess those were 2 different writers -- BDM, 07:26:03 12/15/06 Fri
- I agree with IG -- CW, 20:42:14 12/29/06 Fri