Murderball Response Paper

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Murderball Response Paper Murderball is a sport also called wheelchair rugby. It is a fast paced, full contact wheelchair sport played by individuals that are paraplegic. Murderball, is a documentary explaining the intense rugby game with its disabled players in wheelchairs. After watching Murderball, it opened my eyes to the sport and helped me gain a new understanding for paraplegics. For instance, it cleared up the stereotypes people had about disabled people in wheelchairs playing sports. People look at disabled people in wheelchairs differently and show sympathy towards them. However, just like everyone else, disabled people wanted to be treated equally. This film changed my views on paraplegics and disabled people. I too, once looked at disabled people with sympathy and pity. Now with my new respect and understanding, disabled people are just like everyone else. They are human beings and have feelings, love, and show emotions. There is a lot of confusion and misunderstandings about paraplegics dating and having sex. People wonder how they can have sex or date because paraplegics are disabled from the waist down. There is a general stereotype that paraplegics cannot have sex since nothing functions below the waist, but all the assumptions about them are wrong. They can have sex like any other person, things may get difficult at times, but it is still possible. Just because paraplegics cannot walk on their own two feet doesn’t make them a monster. From the film, Mark Zupan said, “I am such who I am. I’m in a chair, you like me or you don’t like me. I’m a normal person. Here it is, there is no hidden message, it s up close and personal.” Zupan clearly wants to be treated equally and does not want people’s pity. They have to work harder in everything they do and put so much more effort into little everyday things that we take for granted. They take this

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