I stopped reading the comments at Tor once the derailers got into full swing. I've been meaning to go back and look at the discussion again, though.

I'm not a particualr fan of Wrede's work, so aside from the basic "she did what? Where was her brain at?" response, I'm not as conflicted as I was over the issues with Bear's books.

However, I have adored Bujold for some time, especially becasue she deals with disability/physical difference issues in ways that few other SF writers do. She turned a fragile disabled young man into a galactic heros, and it was so wonderful to read... and now she goes and makes the kind of comments that she did over at Tor, and I'm flabbergasted.