'Blindness' Angers the Actual Blind

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Actual Blind Pretty Pissed About Blindness Movie [Blind Protest Blindness]
Published 10/1/2008 by Meredith Woerner at io9
... fellow protesters won't be swayed no matter how many times Miramax tells them it's really a story about courageous spirit and overcoming adversity, he explained: "I think that failing to understand each other is a significant problem," he said. "I think that portraying it as associated with blindness is just incorrect." Maybe it was the part when they started almost killing each other for food and trading sex for vittles that upset him. [PopEater] ...

Blind Rage Over ‘Blindness’
Published 10/2/2008 at Vulture
... throughout the country on Friday in an effort to counter what they believe to be negative stereotypes relating to blindness. We're actually surprised to learn that there were preexisting negative stereotypes about the blind, and that they included trading sex for food, soiling themselves, and generally acting like panicked savages. We mostly just associated the blind with Braille, seeing-eye dogs, and Daredevil, the vision-impaired superhero with badass ninja fighting skills. 'Blindness' Angers the Actual Blind [Pop Eater/AP] ...