Sufferers of Allodoxaphobia, beware!
I actually don't think there really is such a thing as a typically gifted person, although I do believe a large portion of the public thinks there is.
With promo materials making statements such as "
Who Gets to Be Gifted in America and Why?", it appears that the makers of this documentary hold a view that there is a 'typically gifted person.'
there is definitely room for this discussion
On gifted forums and IRL, there is frequent comparison between athletics and intellect/academics, and also frequent reference to varsity teams and/or Olympians as analogies to gifted (each being at the top of their respective discipline or talent area). Therefore I will follow that precedent and flow between the gifted context and the sports context in this post.
Would you find it enlightening to have a documentary ostensibly about the pinnacle of sports... which changed its focus to featuring/emphasizing:
- prison population?
- race, gender, class and sexual identity?
Some might say that naming such a documentary about sports would be gratuitous... misleading... a weak tie-in... simply used to market the documentary. Additionally, this may be seen as a disservice to the sports/athletic community by focusing on a niche... giving a distorted, unproportional, unrepresentative, or divided view of the sports/athletic community.In looking at the most recent promo materials provided by "The G word", it is possible that the focus on giftedness has become tangential at best... that a title referencing gifted may be gratuitous... a marketing strategy.
Ironically, in changing its focus, "The G word" may, in essence, be marginalizing the gifted... or, as it may say... "those who get to be gifted."
