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Zuma Juice made the worst piece of disability stereotyping commercial I’ve ever seen. The disability community let them know what was going on, and I wrote it up for Pacific Standard. This ad trades on two of the most pervasive stereotypes facing disabled folks. First, that their disability is attributable to poor lifestyle choices—i.e. drinking …
This is not a big deal requiring massive internet outrage spirals, but I do want to make this point very clearly: Disability stigma and stereotypes aren’t funny memes you get to use in marketing. OCD, for example, is a serious condition that can play a major role in the structure of the lives with people …
Donald Trump is an erratic man with poor impulse control, a temperament that belong nowhere near the White House, and self-centered to a degree unusual even among politicians. He lies routinely. But does he lie pathologically? Are his lies related to a mental health condition which makes it difficult for him to tell the truth? …