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[chordatesrock]

What do you think of this picture of Toph? (It shows Toph from Avatar: The Last Airbender in an action pose, with the caption, "Oh, come on! That has to be a typo! Physical Disadvantage: Blindness cannot possibly be worth that many points.") Why do I feel like there's something problematic there, and why do I also feel like I'm just too ready to accuse everything not explicitly created from a disability rights perspective of being ableist?

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[beccaelizabeth]

my parody sensors are, like my sarcasm alert, lacking, but
I was just seeing the whiny gamer

(also, while a lot of people read it as 'points in exchange for a disadvantage', it's more that a starter character needs to be worth x number of points to be effective in a game, and if they have a disadvantage they need to be extra awesome elsewhere to get up to x points. the point of points based systems is the character with no disads and less by way of fancy powers or skills is still exactly the same effective if worth the same points total. acknowledgement of difficulties of disability is built into system, but not the usual discourse about the system, which just sees bonus points.)
(this bugs me)
(often)
(so you get the parenthetical explanation of something you probably understand already)
(sorry)

[rydra_wong]

my parody sensors are, like my sarcasm alert, lacking

OTOH, I'm also prone to over-reading.

(so you get the parenthetical explanation of something you probably understand already)

Noooo, not at all. Haven't gamed since I was very young, so my grip on the details is hazy to non-existent.