Stereotypes Of Disabled People

An underrepresented group in today’s society that is portrayed negatively and constantly discriminated by the media, include people whom are physically disabled. The stereotype of disabled people has hardly changed in film and television since the first appearance of disabled people on the media. Paul Hunt (1991) identified several stereotypes that we associate people with physical impairments, some of them include disabled people being portrayed as pathetic and laughable as they’re often picked as the object of humiliation or experiments, non-sexual people that are a burden to society by not being able to participate in daily life. Media discrimination of disabled people began early as the beginning of the last century. In particular a film