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Doctor Who Unleashed: Russell T Davies speaks about Davros
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Doctor Who Unleashed: Russell T Davies speaks about Davros
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That’s a weird take, I always assumed the chair was trying to be more like the daleks and a major aspect of his character that tracks with his motivations. Him being “disabled” never came to mind nor an association that other wheelchair users would be evil.
To paraphrase my disabled wife: way to take away a disabled person’s agency to be evil if they so choose.
I never looked at Davros and thought “wheelchair user”. His chair didn’t have wheels, for one thing …
To be a bit more serious, this seems like a response to a problem that didn’t exist. From scarred Bond villains to pirates (eyepatches, peg legs, hooks for hands), I don’t think anyone takes these things as a serious commentary on disability or disfigurement. It’s just part of the fantastical worlds they inhabit. Nobody associates those things with villainy. People just think they’re cool. They’re interesting character designs.
I don’t know if there’s a term like “benevolent sexism” for disability (benevolent ableism?) but if RTD thought about it for more than three minutes, he would figure out that a better way to be progressive would be to feature more *good* disabled characters, not removing an example entirely.
You know when people complain about tv/movies being too ‘woke’? This is the sort of thing we don’t like.
child of the seventies and watched every episode with davros as they aired, NEVER ever thought of davros as disabled or in a wheelchair or even human for a second. now he’s just another evil human