How are stereotypes used as a shorthand to represent certain groups of people?
Murder ball is a film about a disabled rugby team, taking part in the para-olympics. Stereotypes are made about the people in the wheelchairs. People think that disabled people are depressed and are un-able to live a normal life, however we learn in this film that although that might be the case in the beginning, but once they become used to being disabled they learn to live with it, and some even claim that they would not change anything. some of the disabled people talk about the benefits of being disabled such as women feeling sorry for them which makes it easier for them to get girl friends. They also argue that if they were not disabled they would not be in the olympics and would not have made this film, and all the advantages that come with the film such as being famous and meeting the members of the jackass cast.
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