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-never referred to herself as "disabled"
-never bitched about "ableism"
-never bitched about "fire-centrism"
-never bitched about "feminism"
-called Aang "twinkletoes" and constantly gave him shit for being girly
-never asked for gibs
-eventually became a single mother but never bitched about her ex. Said "it just didn't work out"
-still didn't ask for gibs
-ends up living alone in a swamp taking care of all her own shit and not bothering anyone else
-doesn't give Korra the pussypass and treats her like she's always treated everyone
They seriously can't tell the difference, can they?
Forget that. "Was actively offended by being treated as disabled."
Toph would dropkick this Twit in the nuts with a boulder if he was referring to her the way he did.
And lets not get into the fact that she still has flaws, and while a skilled fighter has limits. Which, you know, are shown off in like 10 minutes of first meeting her (Aang being able to fly around making it very difficult for her to counter him and read his movements).
For sure, and I thought it was a nice touch when they followed through on those limits for the desert arc.
Her flexing improved sandbending in the finale with that model city was such a great character moment. Completely useless in the final fight but it answers the question of how does she respond to her greatest failure: By becoming hyper precise with sand in her off time.
I like how there were legitimate moments where Toph's blindness was helpful, and legitimate moments where it just fucked things up a bit. It wasn't a lightswitch that could be turned on and off at will, even in the finale "Powerful but blind child can't see where she's jumping to" Becomes a point of stress.
Toph is blind jokes were never abused but always were perfect. Right down to her first episode we had gems such as Sokka hitting her in the head with the belt, and the Library's "IT'S THERE! That's what it'll sound like when one of you seeing people see it waves hand in front of eyes" is a top 10 joke. Plus all of the times people hold up posters, always a good time for a poster joke "What is this?" "I DON'T KNOW, HONESTLY WHAT IS IT WITH YOU PEOPLE?"
It's really healthy how the team just kinda flat out forgets at times. Like if she was in anyway hindered yeah those jokes may be a bit more venomous, but 90% of the time she can tell where things are much better.
I like when they're putting up posters of Appa.
Sokka: I guess Toph should come with me.
Toph: What? Just because I'm blind I can't put up posters?!
Toph pastes the poster to the wall, with the blank side showing
Toph: It's upside down, isn't it?
Her sincere but still completely off guess of it being upside down is fucking priceless, it's one of the scenes that stuck with me for literal years rent free. For me, it's when Katara is a little bit pissy at Toph for not wanting to go into the library and she's like "I've held books before, it doesn't do a lot for me." They went above and beyond the necessary during the desert arc, and also it added some drama to the pre-accepted Appa flight scenes.
Sokka: [In a hole] It's so dark down here. I can't see anything.
Toph: [Sarcastically] Oh no. What a nightmare.
Sokka: Sorry.
The picture in the Tweet is literally the 'There it is!' joke mid-scene lol
From "The Chase":
Katara: The stars sure are beautiful tonight, too bad you can't see them Toph!
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That's the lowest blow in the series. And most characters are partial orphans and 3/4ths of the villains blow up in Korra.
Toph: /Almost drowns.
Sukki: /Dives in to rescue Toph without a second thought
Toph: "Oh, Sokka, you saved me!" /kisses Sukki on the cheek
Sukki (who Sokka is actually dating): "Actually, it’s me."
Toph: "Oh! Well. You can go ahead and let me drown now."
Also: literally made jokes about her own disability such as in the exact scene the soybrain's tweet is from. Woke media would never allow a joke at a disabled person's expense.
Also created an entirely new form of advanced bending techniques and founded her own city.
It's all about what the character is to these people. Not who the character is, what they accomplish, their virtues, or their flaws. They see a character as nothing more than the surface level traits, so they can't comprehend the difference between Toph the self-made earth bending pioneer and master to the avatar, and Lashanta the blind trans genderqueen woman of color who don't need no man.