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Matt Murdock and Peter Parker really are very similar huh?
They are “orphans” (or so they’re told)
They were raised by mother and father-figures
Their father figures and mentors died and they couldn’t save them
Their mother figures do their best to support them and their second life
They became vigilantes fighting crime in NYC
They have red suits
They use their special senses
They don’t kill people (usually) but a villain frames them for murder
And their girlfriends die in their arms because they couldn’t save them
Thank you for coming to my TED talk
I was in my Mythology class today and learned about the Oedipus/Electra Complex, which is a Freudian theory that generally means that children tend to subconsciously become sexually attracted to their opposite-sex parent and become jealous of their same-sex parent.
Similarly, other theories state that people tend to choose significant others that resemble their opposite-sex parent.
Then I was rudely reminded by my brain of this:
Marvel was foul for this (Not the creators of Netflix’s Daredevil, but the comic creators).
Her name is literally Elektra Nachios. She fell love with Matt Murdock (a blind man/vigilante), with whom she shared a mentor/father figure, Stick (a blind man/crime fighting cult member).
FOUL—
Manipulation of Ableism in Marvel’s Daredevil
Ok so imo Daredevil as a show’s best moments are when Matt is manipulating other peoples ableist attitudes/assumptions about him to get shit done. I think one of my favorite examples of this is when *Spoilers for season 2* he and Electra are at the gala to get information on the Hand. Matt purposefully spills wine on the accountant(?) dude to get him in the bathroom and away from everyone else. He knows that he won’t get in trouble for it because he’s just a blameless blind dude right /s. Later in that same episode when he and Elektra need to make an escape and they are able to do that because no one sees him as a threat because of his disability. He can’t possibly be the one to trip the alarm /s. I love all of this because that operation was only successful because of that. An abled person would have had a much harder time with it.
Another things I love about scene when they are escaping is that when the guard rips off Matt’s glasses and shines a light in his eyes (which is hella rude) the look on Matt’s face is amazing. You can just tell he’s thinking well I know we need to do this to go free but but now I am going to be reduced to my disability. This man is going to judge me solely off of that and noting else and I hate that. And honestly? Mood. There have been times when someone finds out I’m autistic and immediately start to talk to me as if I’m 5 years old instead of almost 20. I had an english teacher in high school insinuate that I shouldn’t be in her advanced class because I’m dyslexic. It’s so frustrating! I think Charlie Cox shows that really really well in that scene.
There are a bunch of other examples of this especially in season 3 and its just so great. Its a mechanism for survival in a world not built for disabled people but at the same time you can see how much peoples attitudes and assumptions effect Matt. You can see just how angry and annoyed he is and its such a quintessentially disabled experience. IDK I just have a lot of feelings about it.
-Phoenix