So there’s this character I love in my favorite (Korean) cartoon. He has robotic prosthetics (I have no idea what they’re called, I am so sorry. Is it bionic prosthetics?), but they’re very realistic so he just looks like an able-bodied person.
Now, it does already feel a little weird to me that the show only ever addresses the fact he has prosthetics when he does some cool action stuff (so the thing is like, his prosthetics are super strong n stuff) but... eh.
But anyways, what I don’t exactly like about this show’s fandom, at least in the part of the fandom that is from my home country, is that... they often refer to him as half-robot/just straight up robot.
Which, I might not have a say in this since I’m personally not disabled, but that genuinely sounds very dehumanizing to me.
So I think this is either subtle, maybe unintentional ableism from the fans that are from the same country as me, or they just lack media literacy and can’t comprehend that he is just human. with prosthetics. and Not a robot.
I won’t make much of a comment as I am not physically disabled, but I will say: it is VERY fucking dehumanizing to refer to someone with prosthetics as a robot. Full stop.