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returns to Central City with new
tricks up his sleeve.

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question for Madisson.

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schitt’s Creek (Pop at 9)
Moira offends the townspeople in
an interview with People
magazine. Johnny becomes too
involved in Alexis’s love life.

empire (fox at 9) Andre makes an
important decision about his
health and career.

siesta Key (MtV at 9) Jake
a nd Kelsey face a tough hurdle.

returnIng

reasonable Doubt (iD at 10)
season 3.

lAte nIgHt

Conan (tBs at 11) Joel McHale.

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(Comedy Central at 11) David

Plouffe.

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fr ance, taylor tomlinson.

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glen sobel.

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hopeless were once abandoned to

die; in more “enlightened” times,

warehoused. We’ve made prog-

ress, surely, but people who fall

outside the parameters of our ide-

als are still largely excluded. “How

many lives have been smothered,”

Leduc asks, “or disappeared or

haven’t been allowed to flourish

because of the stories we tell?”

They a re, of course, just stories.

But over and over again, Leduc

notes, those stories suggest that

the disabled character is someone

to be feared or someone to grate-

fully receive our charity or some-

one to provide us with uplift: “The

beautiful cripple — so useless but

so saintly.” Inevitably, “the aim of

the narrative is to eradicate the

disabled life rather than change

the world so that the disabled life

can thrive.”

Such changes are possible —

and long overdue. Watch your

language. Challenge your stories.

read this smart, tenacious book.

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Disney’s Belle or Cinderella, or the

inevitable way so many fairy-tale

endings arc toward romance?”

she asks. “How to recognize that it

isn’t l ife’s d ivergence from this a rc

that is the problem, but the estab-

lishment of this arc in the first

place — these able-bodied ideals,

these able-bodied expectations?”

In one engaging chapter after

another, Leduc articulates the di-

mensions of this problem. She

considers various fairy tales, from

“The Little mermaid” to “The

Ugly Duckling,” which she dubs

“Hans Christian Andersen at his

most Hans Christian Andersen.”

She also quotes from and analyzes

passages from her earliest medi-

cal files, discovering in the ways

doctors described her condition

deeply inscribed attitudes about

the limited possibilities of a dis-

abled life.

“It is inconceivable to so many

that someone could be disabled

and also happy,” she writes, not-

ing that our most archetypal sto-

ries provide only two options:

glamorous perfection or pitiable

tragedy. Trapped in that frame-

work, children judged physically

after some hardship, become

beautiful, while wicked people

are mad, scarred or disabled. S uch

are the universal narratives from

which most of us construct our

first aesthetics, our fantasies,

even our values. “fairy tales are

among those most quintessential

of stories,” she writes. “They are

both a way of explaining the world

around us and a method of imag-

ining a world that is possible.”

As a pretty little girl, fairy tales

offered Leduc a comfortable

throne in which to nurse her fan-

tasies, but when she was 3, a CT

scan revealed an abnormality in

her brain. A subsequent operation

successfully removed a cyst but

left her with cerebral palsy, which

affected her hips and made her

limp. No glass slippers for her.

Gradually, she realized that she

had been exiled from the kingdom

of happily ever after. There were

plenty of disabled characters in

fairy tales — objects of villainy,

comedy or pity — but no one she

wanted to identify with looked

like her or moved like her.

“How to argue with the very

obvious able-bodied beauty of

fe cts. Her daring approach is a

hybrid of memoir, literary criti-

cism and cultural commentary.

She moves fluidly between grade-

school memories and scholarly

analysis. She quotes from medi-

eval texts and TV shows. She’s

equally familiar with the Brothers

Grimm and the X-men.

As a child, Leduc’s imagination

was led into the magical land of

beautiful princesses and princes.

Like kids everywhere, she learned

that good people are beautiful or,

tion called arthrogryposis. Ann

Coulter graciously explained that

Trump wasn’t making fun of

Kovaleski’s condition; he was just

“doing a standard retard.”

To the extent such a grotesque

“standard” has any currency in

our culture, it denigrates real peo-

ple and drives them into further

isolation. The words we use, the

images we consider relevant or

common or even funny construct

the world in which we move, walk

and roll.

A brilliant young critic named

Amanda Leduc explores this per-

nicious power of language in her

new book, “Disfigured.” Her focus

is fairy tales, those make-

believe stories g athered hundreds

of years ago in the forests of

france and Germany, pruned to

satisfy the tastes of Victorian au-

diences and finally polished to a

high sheen by Walt Disney. They

are, of course, j ust stories — i n the

same way the r-word is just a

word.

Leduc follows the bread

crumbs back into her original

experience with fairy tales — and

then explores their residual ef-

Seuss, chocolate cake and foreign
accents. She is not the star in an
inspirational family drama.
She is not a retard. She is our
daughter.
In 2009, a group called Spread
the Word to End the Word began
encouraging people to stop using
that demeaning slur. The group
eventually brought its campaign
to thousands of schools across the
country. Last year, Spread the
Word to End the Word shortened
its name to Spread the Word and
broadened its focus to advocate
for greater acceptance for people
with intellectual and develop-
mental disabilities. Those efforts
come together on march 4, when
people around the world are en-
couraged to “Pledge to Spread
Inclusion.”
Some may think such efforts
are a little precious: the hypersen-
sitivity of politically correct snow-
flakes who can’t take a joke. We
heard that a few years ago, after
Donald Trump mocked Pulitzer
Prize-winning reporter Serge
Kovaleski, who has a joint condi-

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Sleeping Ugly: A look at fairy tales’ unwoke depictions of disabilities

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