I hate it when people are like “why do people only talk about tonys mental illness?” Like bitch because it’s DEBILITATING. it’s EXPLICITLY shown and acknowledged as a mental illness. I don’t care how often Steve Rogers broods at thin air he never shows any of the ugliness that comes with mental illness and is in fact consistently painted as perfect at every possible turn. And you wonder why we only talk about tony smh
It’s also because a lot of Team Cap people do NOT acknowledge Steve has mental health issues. I actually did speak about this in detail and I tried to breach the topic with a friend of mine who is Team Cap, but she cut me off with a “hell to the no, we’re not going there” because Cap can do no wrong and he was ABSOLUTELY CORRECT every SINGLE time he made a decision.
Acknowledging Steve has mental health issues puts him into question. It justifies a lot of his actions… but it also points out that he should have never been leading the Avengers to begin with, not in the state he was in.
This is why I am angry with Steve. I will never deny that he experienced trauma. I feel for him, I do. But he acknowledges it and acknowledges the fact that his trauma affects his behavior in the field – and does nothing about it. Tony acknowledges his PTSD. He struggles with it, but he tries to fix the problem, as evidenced by BARF. Not Steve.
I understand the wartime “soldier on” mentality. But this is not the war. A person with PTSD should not be leading a team of superhumans in illegal ops on foreign soil. He should be taking a break to fix himself.
Steve is making decisions for all sorts of people when he’s mentally and emotionally compromised. The fandom justifies this “because he’s Captain America”. I’m sorry, but it’s not okay.
You can’t say – oh, Tony was not the only one with PTSD issues, then turn around and claim Steve’s judgment was flawless and in no way impaired. It just doesn’t work that way.
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