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[ysobel]

Dear TV writers:

Given a character in a wheelchair, "omg their shoes show SIGNS OF USE" does not necessarily mean that they are big faking fakers that are using a wheelchair to appear harmless but can get up and sprint away once they are discovered.

For one thing, if it was an accident or a degenerative condition that put them there, the shoes might have been from before, when they were more two-leggedly-mobile.

For another, some people in wheelchairs can actually stand to some degree, eg for transfers.

For a third, it PISSES ME OFF.

So stop it, k?

-me

Comments

[staranise]

D: Who did this?

[ysobel]

That I've seen? Mentalist, once, and Monk, in the second episode. (My mom and I are watching Monk from the beginning -- she's seen it, I haven't -- and we got to the Twist of "zomg he couldn't have done it because it was a tall standy person and he's in a wheelchair" and then the Double Twist of Monk going "..." about the shoes thing and they go back up to re-question him only he escapes out a side window and runs away and I made a D: face at the tv.)

[twistedchick]

Big damn frakking word.

[niqaeli]

Also, dude, not everyone who uses a wheelchair requires it all the time. Much like how not everyone who uses a cane requires it all the time. It's not being a faking faker who fakes, it's facing different challenges with pain levels and mobility levels on different days. >:|

[melissima]

And maybe some of us borrow our roommates' shoes. :D

I know I saw this on Teh Mentalist. Did you see it someplace else too?

[melissima]

Argh. Bad call, Monk PTB. Bad call.