"Words like "cripple" and "gimp" fall into this category. Prompts using these words (with a few exceptions, noted below) will be deleted. So do stories that depict Charles' disability as disgusting or unacceptable, or erase it completely."
It seemed to be in direct contradiction to the line you added, because it makes it sound like erasure and more blatant ew-disability-ableism are going to be deleted along with prompts using slurs, long before warnings are mentioned. Putting the third sentence before the other two, in the general discussion of what is ableist and before deletion comes up might make the policy more clear.
Only might, though. From the comments here, sounds like the erasure is more harmful in its broad patterns than individual easy happy AUs. Are all AU non-paralysis fics supposed to warn for erasure? I'm not being flippant and this is not a rhetorical question; most discrimination does its worst damage in terms of broad patterns. The fandom at large would likely react poorly to an entire favorite genre of fic being labeled ableist, but the fact that erasure dominates beloved tropes and disability is something that requires fixit-fic is a large part of the problem.
I'm not bashing or trying to demand a specific policy. I honestly don't know what would work best, and I applaud you guys for trying to deal with this thoughtfully and taking feedback. Just telling you what I found most confusing about the policy as it is now.
/different person
"Words like "cripple" and "gimp" fall into this category. Prompts using these words (with a few exceptions, noted below) will be deleted. So do stories that depict Charles' disability as disgusting or unacceptable, or erase it completely."
It seemed to be in direct contradiction to the line you added, because it makes it sound like erasure and more blatant ew-disability-ableism are going to be deleted along with prompts using slurs, long before warnings are mentioned. Putting the third sentence before the other two, in the general discussion of what is ableist and before deletion comes up might make the policy more clear.
Only might, though. From the comments here, sounds like the erasure is more harmful in its broad patterns than individual easy happy AUs. Are all AU non-paralysis fics supposed to warn for erasure? I'm not being flippant and this is not a rhetorical question; most discrimination does its worst damage in terms of broad patterns. The fandom at large would likely react poorly to an entire favorite genre of fic being labeled ableist, but the fact that erasure dominates beloved tropes and disability is something that requires fixit-fic is a large part of the problem.
I'm not bashing or trying to demand a specific policy. I honestly don't know what would work best, and I applaud you guys for trying to deal with this thoughtfully and taking feedback. Just telling you what I found most confusing about the policy as it is now.