Village Voice

It was with complete disbelief (which later turned to horror then anger then desperation then I got hungry from all the anger…) that I read, in its poorly written entirety, the Valentine’s Day cover story of this week’s Village Voice titled “Something in the Way He Moves.”

The article is ostensibly a personal profile of Larry Seiler, a regular guy with a disability who doesn’t want our pity but is looking for love. Yet the piece, pathetic in its execution and bizarre in its intentions, begs the reader to pity its subject, and in what may be the most disturbing part, I feel like Mara Altman, who wrote the article, and the editors who ran it, are completely unaware of this contradiction.

Taken in parts or as a whole, the article is one of the most offensive pieces I’ve read about sex and disability in the mainstream press in a long, long time. And given what kind of disability stories are making news these days, that’s saying a lot. Even as I write this I strongly recommend you not visit the Voice site, you not read the article, basically I recommend you stay as far away from the Village Voice as possible. (more…)

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