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Toph’s blindness was one of the most excellently handled aspects of AtLA because it wasn’t treated like a disability. So often in shows (and especially children’s animation) disabled characters are limited to apperances in “very special episodes” where the main characters have to learn a lesson that these people are capable “in spite of” their handicaps, like that episode of Kim Possible wherein Kim constantly stumbles over herself around Felix. This approach is often just as insulting as making them the butt of jokes, because it’s patronizing and it limits the amount of roles disabled characters are allowed to have.
Avatar challenged that stereotype with Teo, and then sent a giant middle finger its way by introducing Toph. She’s turned what would otherwise be a disability into an advantage, and she’s not afraid to crack jokes about it. She functions well enough that the other characters often forget that she is blind, but at the same time it’s an integral part of her bending and allows her to be the greatest earthbender ever. It sends a powerful message that having a physical disability does not make you less of a person, and often affords you a unique perspective that the so-called “normal” people never get to experience.
One of the many reasons I love this show.
(via blueboxes)
(via blueboxes)
Apr
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Apr
19
The Magic Cube Projects an Operational Full-Sized Laser Keyboard
I totally predicted this 10 years ago. It even looks a lot like what I imagined!
Apr
18
“Go to an airport, and look at people on the moving walkway,” he says. “I mean, the engineers who built that walkway — it’s meant to speed you up, by walking on it. You’re not meant to just hop on it and go on a slow, sort of moving ride.”
Americans Do Not Walk The Walk, And That’s A Growing Problem (via npr)
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