Vid meme day 20

[sasha_feather]

A narrative vid you love

Half the Man by isagel. Multifandom.

This is a vid done for kink_bingo, what used to be the "amputee fetishism" square (which has now been incorporated into body alteration/injury). I recommend reading the warnings and notes at isagel's journal.

I love this vid for many reasons but partly because it's a great disability narrative. At the beginning, there is fear, horror, villains with hooks, violence. Moving onto living with a lost limb, darkness, despair, pain and isolation. Then the turn, shown in the putting on or taking off of clothing and prosthetics: owning one's body, acceptance, even pride. And the variety of the prosthetics here is awesome (chainsaws!). Then onto images of awesome, of romantic success, of conquering one's enemies, of playing the piano and the guitar, of enjoying life. This vid makes me want to cheer.

Comments

[trouble]

I have exactly the opposite reaction to that vid. I think it's technically brilliantly done, and I hate the narrative, not the least because I still get people assuming that somehow Don is "half the man" that some other, non-disabled man is. (I still get emails from my most recent male ex that occasionally imply that if I should just have sex with him again I would recall what "real" sex with a "real" man is supposed to be like and will come to my senses. Note I last saw this man in 2005.)

I also really loathe the implication that sex I have with husband is by definition kinky, simply because sex-with-cripples is a kink.