Anonymous asked: bucky has a disability??
he doesn’t have an arm.
#a lot of comments are missing the point. yeah his prosthetic arm is really powerful and totally badass.#why does he need a prosthetic arm in the first place though? because *he has a disability*!#accommodations don’t erase disabilities – they help people with disabilities do stuff that would otherwise be difficult or impossible.#if someone trades their wheelchair for robotic exoskeleton legs then the legs are an accommodation just like the wheelchair was.#if they their wheelchair for a jetpack then the jetpack is an accommodation for their disability too.#even if the robotic exo-legs make them just as able as folks without a disability. even if the jetpack makes them even *more* able in many w#even if the robotic exo-legs make them just as able as folks without a disability.#even if the jetpack makes them even *more* able in many ways.#that doesn’t erase *why they use these accommodations in the first place*!#the idea that we able-bodied folks have the right to declare that a character is not ‘really’ disabled anymore#cause their accommodations are *too* good (i.e. they break the gross ‘disabled = helpless object of pity and/or 'inspiration’’) stereotype#is really fucked up ableist bullshit.#so instead of erasing disability representation (especially when there’s already so little of it at all)#let’s use it as an opportunity to re-examine and correct the patronizing ableist assumptions society has instilled in us. (via destielhiseyesopened)
