Mullins, by Aimee
Aimee Mullins writes about herself and her famous legs for Gizmodo’s This Cyborg Life week. To boot, Mullins is an excellent and engaging writer. She asks, “Can one be too abled?“:
Commence the comical nightmare of being told that we now possess an “unfair advantage” in wearing prosthetic limbs to run. The scores of amputee sprinters who had competed with the limbs for the previous 13 years—and were still comfortably categorized as “disabled”—were virtually ignored. What is fascinating is the immediate shift in society’s regard of a disabled athlete as an “inspiration” (cue the patronizing “awwwww”) to a legitimate threat to other athletes (“Uh, what the hell do we do now?”).
No apologies, no bullshit. She is the best.
[Gizmodo:Racing on Carbon Fiber Legs: How Abled Should We Be?]
Pop Transhumanism | Kyle Munkittrick | 
November 12, 2009 4:33 pm
