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  1. before this presentation begins, Picture a superhero in your mind.
  2. Now picture the villain more than likely, the superhero you
  3. pictured for someone who is in a powerful stance on
  4. looks physically strong with a perfect skin complexion.
  5. The villain, on the other hand, probably has some sort
  6. of facial disfigurement or physical impairment.
  7. If these characteristics sound familiar, that is because they were
  8. introduced to us from society and reinforced through our favorite
  9. Hollywood superhero movies.
  10. According to Kirby, the superhero in Hollywood movies is often
  11. characterized as physically beautiful, able bodied, athletic and sexually attractive.
  12. Where's the villain?
  13. Is often depicted as having a facial disfigurement, such as
  14. wearing an eye patch or having noticeable scarring.
  15. Because of this, the villainous in this tragic and needs
  16. to be cured in order to have a happy ending.
  17. The purpose of this presentation is to further examine how
  18. individuals of the disability of represented in popular Hollywood superhero
  19. movies, specifically how women with it visible or invisible disability
  20. are portrayed.
  21. How women with disabilities are represented in Hollywood media is
  22. an important topic because individuals with disabilities, especially women, are
  23. not represented enough in two days.
  24. Film industry, when they are they have portrayed inaccurately.
  25. For instance, a disability is often portrayed as a weakness
  26. or a barrier that the individual needs to overcome.
  27. This depiction can not only be damaging to those with
  28. disabilities, but in real life they may not view their
  29. disability as an obstacle.
  30. And they should not feel like they are tragic or
  31. in desperate need of saving.
  32. According to a 2000 and 12 census, 14.9% of women
  33. living in Canada reported having one or more disabilities.
  34. Why the statistic is important is because if the majority
  35. of women report having a disability, then they should be
  36. represented more accurately.
  37. In popular Hollywood films, it is important to change our
  38. attitudes and perceptions towards disability because disability is not a
  39. weakness or disadvantage, and in changing their representation, we can
  40. create a more inclusive society.
  41. The research question I have chosen for this topic is
  42. how has Hollywood represented women with disabilities and popular superhero
  43. movies? In order to answer this research question, the information
  44. collective for this presentation will be based off the qualitative
  45. findings from other researchers and existing literature.
  46. The researchers focused on an analysis of the popular superhero
  47. movie Wonder Woman in 2017, the process of finding sociological
  48. research covering this topic was challenging because visible and invisible
  49. disability is not talked about enough in today's society.
  50. The reasoning behind choosing to analyze the film on the
  51. woman is because up until recently, women in general have
  52. not been the leading characters in sci fi and fantasy
  53. genre movies.
  54. Beauty standards are especially prominent in this movie, where Wonder
  55. Woman is seen as being physically more attractive than the
  56. antagonist Visible Maru.
  57. Also known as Dr Poison.
  58. This movie also depicts the stereotypical good verses evil characteristics
  59. where the good and bad characters have to be represented
  60. in certain socially acceptable ways.
  61. Although the main characters in the movie Wonder Women are
  62. mostly women, traditional beauty standards air still hyper focused where
  63. women need to look a certain way to fit the
  64. part, according to Kirby, the film also demonstrates what it
  65. means to be traditionally male and female.
  66. Canadian director James Cameron implied that the main character, Diana
  67. and Wonder Woman, is an objectified icon where beauty standards
  68. are still noticeably apparent.
  69. However, director of Wonder woman Patty Jenkins disagreed with Cameron
  70. and stated that Diana is indeed a feminist icon, where
  71. she stands for strong women and represents him in the
  72. movie. According to Kirby, Wonder Woman is light skinned, young,
  73. sexually attractive and virginal.
  74. All of these characteristics were created from Hollywood's traditional beauty
  75. standards. Age is also an interesting feature in this movie,
  76. according to Kirby.
  77. For women Ages, viewed Off is being a disfigurement on
  78. well received less attention as a movie continues.
  79. In contrast, Visible Maru her character.
  80. In contrast to Isabel Maru, her character was a mask
  81. to hide her disfigurement.
  82. When her mask falls off in the movie, it is
  83. portrayed that she no longer she is no longer beautiful,
  84. and she deserves to be destroyed because he represents the
  85. flaws some humans have.
  86. According to Kirby, four models of disability representation are used
  87. to describe the antagonist Isabel Maru from the medical model.
  88. Maru wears a mask throughout the movie in hopes that
  89. it will cure her facial disfigurement from the charity model.
  90. Maroon is portrayed as a tragedy because of her accident
  91. from the super Crip model.
  92. Her facial disfigurement is a challenge that needs to be
  93. overcome, and finally from the moral model Maru is a
  94. sign of a moral failure, where she violates many off
  95. her core beliefs throughout the movie.
  96. In terms of gender representation and social inequalities, the previously
  97. stated models can be damaging to those of a disability.
  98. For instance, the medical model relates agenda representation and that
  99. women need to be constantly viewed off as beautiful.
  100. And a facial disfigurement is not up to the typical
  101. beauty standards.
  102. Searching for a cure means that a woman with a
  103. facial disfigurement or scarring needs to develop ways to get
  104. back her previous beauty, and she cannot be content with
  105. the way she looks now.
  106. The charity model also is an issue because it describes
  107. disability as being a weakness where she is seen as
  108. tragic because of what happened to her, instead of viewing
  109. it as a potential strength in terms of strength, the
  110. super Crip model seeks toe over the emphasize an individual's
  111. disability where able bodied individuals may highlight their disability as
  112. something that they were so strong and overcoming it is
  113. it is as if their disability was an obstacle that
  114. they struggled to get over.
  115. In conclusion, those air disabilities are not represented enough in
  116. media today.
  117. When they are, they are portrayed inaccurately or insensitively.
  118. In order to create a more inclusive society, we need
  119. to consider and listen to the opinions of those with
  120. disability instead of speaking for them and portraying them in
  121. popular movies.
  122. Wrong, the antagonist in sci fi and fantasy movies, has
  123. still some sort of disfigurement or physical disability in today's
  124. society, and I think it is important to represent them.
  125. Maura's protagonists positive characters rather than negative ones.
  126. Some media outlets are representing more inclusive content where individuals
  127. of disabilities of representing more.
  128. However, the actors and actresses most of the time are
  129. able bodied, and the characters in the show are mostly
  130. men. For future research, I believe there should be more
  131. in depth research on the portrayal of women with disabilities
  132. in popular Hollywood media.
  133. They have all say, underrepresented, underrepresented, even in 2000 and
  134. 20. Thank you for listening to my presentation