Tobin Sieber's Theories Of Disability
Do we actually know our bodies, and all it can really accomplish? Well, I have never really given it any thought until I enrolled in this class. I have learned so far there many philosophies concerning disability. Tobin Siebers an English professor in disability studies who departed from this earth on January 20th 2015, he said “Disability creates theories of embodiment more complex than the ideology of ability allows, and these many embodiments are each crucial to the understanding of humanity and its variations, whether physical, mental, social, or historical. The ultimate purpose of complex embodiment as theory is to give disabled people greater knowledge of and control over their bodies in situations where increased knowledge and control
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This can be seen in the film “Margarita with a Straw” when the character Laila who comes from a fairly old- fashioned family background goes out for her first drink. She does not know what to order and her friend recommends a margarita. Another example is the seven-minute short film “Good Beer” this shows two people who met online and go out on a date. The male character David gets upset with the female character Shannon because she is in a wheel chair. It is made known, when he gets up to walk out he reveals that he is missing part of his arm. My final example is another short film “Bumblebees” it’s about a nineteen-year-old name Vance going on his first date. All three of these films expresses how extremely difficult it is for people to live up to the standards of society and what they believe the ideal body. The idea of the social body can have appealed itself in superficial and oppressive ways of how we act and treat others.
Lastly, the body politic demonstrates how the body is controlled by society for example different ideals of attraction or healthiness among the working class verses the upper class. For example, in the film “Macropolis” is two factory rejected toys from the production line a cat with a missing eye and a dog with a missing leg from come to life and try to find their
This can be seen in the film “Margarita with a Straw” when the character Laila who comes from a fairly old- fashioned family background goes out for her first drink. She does not know what to order and her friend recommends a margarita. Another example is the seven-minute short film “Good Beer” this shows two people who met online and go out on a date. The male character David gets upset with the female character Shannon because she is in a wheel chair. It is made known, when he gets up to walk out he reveals that he is missing part of his arm. My final example is another short film “Bumblebees” it’s about a nineteen-year-old name Vance going on his first date. All three of these films expresses how extremely difficult it is for people to live up to the standards of society and what they believe the ideal body. The idea of the social body can have appealed itself in superficial and oppressive ways of how we act and treat others.
Lastly, the body politic demonstrates how the body is controlled by society for example different ideals of attraction or healthiness among the working class verses the upper class. For example, in the film “Macropolis” is two factory rejected toys from the production line a cat with a missing eye and a dog with a missing leg from come to life and try to find their