Temple Grandin: A Game Change
Temple Grandin, this is a name that inspires the impossible. A woman, deemed unfit to be an active part of society, changed not only the face of autism but the treatment of animals in the United States. She overcame her dysfunction and changed the way others thought of the ‘disease’. The film Temple Grandin (2010) emphasizes not only Grandin’s ideas but also her drive and her feministic approach. Temple Grandin is a master of compromise. We see Temple Grandin's love for animals as well as her compromising viewpoint displayed in the film as well as the text. This demonstrated in the Wildlife text when she discusses the idea of poaching, she understands that these animals are being killed because it is profitable …show more content…
The minute her career starts she is not taken seriously because she is a woman. When at the cattle yard the ranch man is constantly making jabs at her because he thinks she will be squeamish seeing the cows die. In reality though Temple’s brilliant mind is actually identifying patterns that the cows are exhibiting. She does not let this man bother her mainly because she barely noticed him. When she goes back to get her thesis signed she sneaks in and pretends she is a man because they do not allow women on the ranch. When he turns her away she constantly keeps trying, she goes through a whole mess of trouble just to be able to work on her thesis. This is how the audience really sees how driven Grandin is. We also see how she is basically bullied by the men on the ranch. They cover her truck windshield will bull testicles and Temple is enraged. She screams at them “What a waste!” (Temple 2010). She is not mad about her truck, she is angry that they wasted parts of the cow. Also, when Grandin designs a new system for the dip the men purposely ruin it. Grandin is infuriated by these because they lost a few cows in the process. Temple tells them they are losing animals lives because of their own stupidity. Grandin goes on to fix her design for the dip and is widely successful with it. So successful, that most cattle ranches today use her design. Temple is awe inspiring because