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hippo-pot · 28 days

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overthinking a joke i didn't like -_- in the first like minute of The Guild where the therapist is like "have you met these people face to face" and Felicia Day is like "I can hear them! That's good enough for the blind!"

first, blindness is a huuuuge spectrum, including people who can see their friends AND people who can't hear their friends (roughly 40,000 people in the US are DeafBlind, which obviously is a spectrum as well)

also.... *just* hearing? is good enough? for the entire population of the blind? We don't think blind people like touching their friends? In fact almost certainly *more* on average than sighted people do? hi

#i've touched virtually all of the blind people i know. like that's how we introduced ourselves to each other #now granted most of them are DeafBlind which skews it. but #the thing that really bugged me is one of the youtube comments that was like #'Her entire life would be destroyed if she said that today with how hyper sensitive everyone is'#so you agree? the joke didn't represent life fairly or accurately?#this person got defensive preemptively before anyone even said anything -_- tiring #like the video was made in 2007 so who cares but the comment was made 3 years ago. THAT'S what's bugging me #anyway!!! dropping it now. closing the tab moving on finding something else to watch

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