Are Abortions dismissive?

Disabled people are constantly dismissed from society. They are ignored and people always refrain from making them the topic of conversation. In Laura Hershey's essay "Choosing Disability, she states that the procedure Abortions is an escape from disability. She feels that one of the primary reasons why Abortions are performed is to escape from the "burden" that come with disabled people. This idea is presented under specific circumstances. These circumstances are that if the doctor in charge of the baby's prenatal care feels as if there is a high chance that the baby will be born with some type of mental/physical disability, one of the common options presented by the doctor is to abort the child. The reason behind this harsh decision is that the baby will suffer with the disability throughout his/her life. Therefore, to prevent this suffrage, it is recommended that the child's life is terminated. However, in Laura's point of view, she feels that this is just a cover up that doctors use to impair people's judgment. She feels as if the doctors tell people this reason because they feel as if to maintain or make a disabled persons life requires much more time,money and effort. However, what gives the doctor the right to decide whether or not a disabled person deserves the right to live. Laura also uses the word "disabiliphobia" which is used to describe people with the fear of disabilities. Many people do suffer from this phobia and disabled people are victims of this.

"Enfreakment of Photography"

Disabled people in society are always left out when it comes to photography. They are sometimes labeled as the "dead" people in society.People leave them out not just in pictures but also discussions. I think the reason behind them being left out is because people always perceive them as incapable both physically and mentally. They are considered as less them a human being. A disability such as a person that has amputated or leg that forces them to be stationary unless they have a wheelchair or something is view as incapable when it comes to walking/running in any way. Therefore, this transcends to them being left out because people always leave out people who are incapable. Photos are usually taken to magnify or focus on something or someone that is important. They are also described as "not having a role to play." In other words, they do not contribute to society in any way,shape and form. In fact, people often view disabled people as a burden on others. They constantly cause people to go out of their ways to help them. This are the unfair assumptions that people constantly make on a daily basis regarding people with disabilities.The only time someone would be willing to photograph a disabled person  is to focus on their disabilities. The are never photographed to focus on them as a person.

The term "social death" means that a specific person or group is dead when in comes to the social world. This person or group is exempted from all social groups and norms. There are considered the "odd ball" within the social world. They are looked at as abnormal. No matter how hard this person and/or group of people attempts to fit in, the more it seems impossible to them. When this quote is applied to the photo from Diane Arbus (with the freakishly tall man surrounded by what seems to be average height) this quote makes more sense. This photo main purpose seems to  magnify this man disability. In this photo, everything around this man seems to be very small compared to him. The furniture and the woman and man are very small in this picture. There role in this picture is to show the audience that this man is abnormal and does not belong. Instead of the photo attempting to magnify him as a person, it magnified his disability. This is a prime example of how photography labels disabled people socially dead.

Fat Prejudice

Lionel Shriver presents various intriguing points and ideas pertaining to the life of someone who is "fat." He states the dramatically different treatment that exist between someone who is thin and someone who is on the "fat" side. Generally, the point he is trying to get across to his audience is that "fat" people get treated much worst than a thinner person entirely based on their weight. Specifically, he states that fat people are required of themselves to exert more effort to please the people around them. They either have to alter their personality and be someone they aren't or they have to attempt to drastically change their physical traits.This theory that Shriver presents isn't solely focused on a person's weight. It can be broadened out to other physical attributes such as teeth and other blemishes.One specific example that Shriver presents in this article is when he relates his philosophy to his personal experiences. He states that when he was 15 years of age, he got his teeth straightened via braces. Prior to his straighten teeth, his contemporaries use to tease him about this obvious flaw. They use to call him names like Bugs Bunny. However, after he had his teeth straightened, the way his classmates treated him changed. They started to treat him nicer and with more respect and even though he was they same person in their eyes he was different. This example does directly align with what I faced in my earlier childhood. I also had my teeth straightened via braces. However, prior to me straightening my teeth, I had an under bite and people use to treat me with less respect than someone who I guess had straighter teeth than I did. After I got my braces taken off, the same people who use to degrade me started to give me complements and began to be nicer to me.These are the things that exist in the society we live in to this current day but we have to learn to deal with it because the world isn't fair.

There is a specific relation that Shriver attempts to reveal to us. He basically states that everyone will at some point face some type of mistreatment as a result of their inability to meet the beauty standards that exist in society. One thing that every human being has in common with everyone else regardless of how they look is the effects of aging. A person's beauty begins to slowly and gradually deteriorate with time. As much as a person might try to change this it is INEVITABLE. Eventually wrinkles will catch up to each individual on this earth. This does in fact apply to either gender. However, women start to feel the affects of aging much earlier than men do. Therefore, no matter how attractive or admirable you were when you were old eventually you are going to at some point feel some type of prejudice. One quote that generalizes my entire point is "You will never look better than you do now!" The ideology that this quote depicts is from the peak of your beauty your looks will never incline it will always take a downfall from that point on.