Oh @rebelsabers Your post is just .. so long I am not going to bother to screenshot it just link it.
Okay, i wasn’t going to respond to you but you’ve gotten out of line and downright offensive. At this point in the MCU, most viewers un
In fact, I am not going to bother to address specific points because it is literally just hundreds of words of projection. You can tell a person who doesn't have an argument or a basis for their position when they just have to accuse their percieved opponent of doing what they are doing.
Also the "some of my best friends are abuse survivors part " is just cringe. No: that doesn't mean you know what the experience of traumatized people or abuse survivors is like by osmosis.
Suffice it to say, this person of course thinks Bucky has to validate Sam's trauma over his own, put Sam's struggles above his own emotional healing and wellbeing would be fine and dandy with he victim-blaming narrative we get in shows like The Falcon and the Winter Soldier becuse "its not about him its about Sam".
(and God forbid Bucky should have some kind of trauma response like ... I dunno lashing out in anger once in a while or being hugely invested in the object belonging to a loved one).
Also, observe the specifics of the screeching: "misrepresenting Sam's journey": this is exactly what the writers of shows like TFatWS had to do to Bucky. The clear implication that he was working for HYDRA willingly the entire time that inherent throughout the show being the #1 example.
They needed to change the fundamentals of his story because he was not an acceptable victim and never could be alongside Sam. That's without getting onto the whole "making amends" bs in that show. Would any other character, literally a survivor of captivity, torture and human experimentation be told they had to "make amends" to other victims? As if they were the perpetrator and not a fellow victim.
The solution is very simple: if you want to focus on Sam, keep Bucky out of it. Don't use him as a prop to Sam so you can say "he doesn't know what Sam has to go through because he hasn't suffered like Sam has". A narrative which requires the writers to retcon details of Bucky story to make him a wiling and active participant in the activities of his victimizers, or to say he gave consent when he did not. ...and don't even get me started on the ones who try to forbid us from even mentioning Bucky was experimented on at all..
Those who want Bucky to be a prop to Sam of course have to also gaslight those who call them out: denying what they are doing. Saying that nothing has been changed or retconned to make Sam look like more of a victim, and that if you dare to suggest it has then you are just racist!
They did the same before with abuse survivors and trauma victims who wanted to see a respecful and realistic conclusion to the arc about Bucky's PTSD recovery in TFatWS and instead got a rushed, badly-informed cop out which wreaked of victim-blaming and even outright *mocked* traumatized people.
When we objected, they accused us of "making everything about Bucky" then too. Or dismissed the clear evidence of ableism (jokes directed at Bucky about bodily disabilities and brain damage) in this same manner.
I repeat: if you want Sam to have his own arc, leave Bucky out of it. Or at very least, don't rewrite his backstory and deny his victimization to build up Sam at his expense. You don't need to do it: its lazy, offensive and punching down, but it will persist.
