Hunchback

by Saou Ichikawa

I often heard of cases where parents had worked hard to leave

plenty behind to provide for their disabled children, but because those children had died without ever having kids of their own, it all went to the treasury. If those who were so aggrieved by disabled people not contributing to society and gobbling up everyone’s

benefit money knew about this, would it assuage their ...

Of course the tweetings of a hunchbacked monster would be more twisted than those of someone with a perfectly erect spine.

“I’m a beta male, okay. I’m one of the disadvantaged ones, too. So please don’t make things more difficult for me than they already are.” Oh my god, I thought immediately, he’s a creep. He’s self-identifying

as a beta male. He’s probably an incel. Fuck!

Japan, on the other hand, works on the understanding that disabled people

don’t exist within society, so there are no such proactive considerations made. Able-bodied Japanese people have likely never even imagined a hunchbacked monster struggling to read a physical book. Here I was, feeling my spine being crushed a

little more with every book that I read, while all those ebook-hating able-bodied people who went on and on about how they loved the smell of physical books, or the feel of the turning pages beneath the...