Blind in Norway

 

Here’s a description of a new Norwegian television drama called “Blind”:

 

 

The Norwegian/Dutch co-production stars Ellen Dorrit Petersen as Ingrid, a blind woman who lives with her husband Morten (Henrik Rafaelsen). When he goes to work, she sits by the window by herself, listening to the radio and telling herself stories about her life that may or may not be true.

 

There’s no end to ableist depictions of blindness. This one is especially ghastly because its a dualistic portrait of feminine abjection and disability abjection. 

 

And the hipsters think its daring. 

 

I can scarcely muster the language necessary to react. 

 

Notice that blindness unplugs reality—her stories may or may not be true.

 

What total crap.