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Bucky has a disability??
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| Title: | bucky has a disability?? |
| Creator: | ask from anonymous to mjwatson, extensive responses |
| Date(s): | April 23, 2015 (original post) |
| Medium: | Tumblr |
| Fandom: | MCU (Captain America) |
| Topic: | Bucky Barnes and disability |
| External Links: | original post (archived) |
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bucky has a disability?? is an anonymous ask sent to mjwatson on Tumblr in 2015, sparking discussion in the fandom about disability representation and particularly about Bucky Barnes and his portrayal in the MCU.
The Post
Anonymous asked:
bucky has a disability??
mjwatson answered:
he doesn’t have an arm.
Responses
[destielhiseyesopened]: #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.[1]
[horse-on-a-porch]:listen I think this captures a lot of the disability debate in the following:
-bucky does just fine without an arm->not disabled
like just because he does "just fine" whatever the hell that means he's not disables ignores the steep learning curve, chronic pain, financial expense, and emotional expense a lot of disabled folks deal with. Also just fine???? Dude lost his arm and then got an arm welded into him by literal Nazis.
Like the OG for talking about amputees is still full metal alchemist but still.
But that's not even touching how amputees are yelled at it because people assume they have working legs or other limbs to get out of handicap spots or to not use other accomodations. It's not even touching how people with invisible disabilities often get marginalized in new and frankly absurd ways.[2]
References
- ^ Reblog with tags quoted (2015)
- ^ response by horse-on-a-porch (2025)