Like...okay, part of me gets it.

But how many students could the technology have helped over the years? You had a kid with an ACTUAL DEATH TOUCH who couldn't even feed himself easily and it never occurred to make his life a bit easier while he was grappling with his powers?

Rogue has reasons for disliking the technology (which she faces later on in the series), but there was no reason NOT to find ways to make it work better for those whose lives would be made better by it.

And Hank brings a tennis bracelet with the tech to the 'house warming' party barely a week later, so it's not like they couldn't have done it!

MAH KEVIN

/clings to Kevin Ford

How much easier would his life have been if he'd been allowed to use the tech from time to time?

I mean, he also needed a LOT of therapy, but the tech could have helped.

Even people like Jean or the Professor. Like they don't have to run the risk of accidentally letting down a telepathic block and hearing what everyone is thinking about them? Sound great on those days when you're too tired to people.

It really would have been useful for a young Remy whose powers were going out of control.

I maintain, that Kevin's life was fucked the minute he manifested. Between the Xmen, Dani Moonstar the FBI and Selene? Kid didn't have a chance

BUT with the tech and a LOT of therapy and not being turned over to the FBI, Dani he would've managed an equilibrium.

the X-Men absolutely shat the bed with that entire generation of kids

(also remember that kid who manifested and killed his entire town so they had to have Wolverine murder him, Beast?)

This absolutely 100%

Also I'm currently rereading MMX and BOY I still get in my feels every time someone suggests using power dampeners in games like it's nbd\

every time this happens with rogue it's always really funny

Honestly, power dampening should be a tool. I've had PSLs where Jono's room had psionic dampeners because teenagers are loud.

It just kept his room as a sanctuary.

EXACTLY

it's tricky because it can be so easily weaponized once it's made the tech is out there and it'll be used and built on in ways they can't control. see: how Forge made the OG gun in good faith for the government and it being used on Rogue but catching Storm instead

it IS tricky but the other option is what? untold suffering?
the X-Men are supposed to be better than that

they have Warren and other lawyers, patent the software, so from there.

but it's also true that they should have developed some kind of thing to help them with their mutations, especially those with mutations that actively hurt them

yeah.

I'm not here to fight about it lol I'm just saying narratively the conflict is written to be complicated, there's no easy answer!

no and there shouldn't be. but the narrative leans way too hard into the Every Mutation Is Wondeful

there's nothing wrong with us, says johnny fivedicks to susan deathtouch

it's the Deaf Community being against "fixing" disabilities vs the chronic pain community going "we are suffering" and siding with the first group almost entirely to the point of actively making the second group's lives worse and only caring about one or two of them after years of watching them suffer. it's a bad look from the X-men.

Platinum: yeah

komikbookgeek: yeah there's several reasons besides a justifiable sense of basic personal fuckin' dignity against the systematic depersoning and mistreatment they've experienced about it that Deaf activists are against categorizing it as a "disability", and that's the big one

fundamentally if you characterize Deafness and something like chronic pain under the same categorical umbrella you are treating two very different living conditions as Exactly the Same and justifying the perception of them needing Exactly the Same kind of assistance and/or treatment and They Do Not Need THis

almondlychee: No, you're right. But the tech is already out there because that's how THEY came across it. It was used on them. At that point, turning it around and using it for your own betterment is perfectly acceptable.

I have thought about this before and I believe xavier never let them develop technology to help mutants that were suffering because his idea was they should accept it as a part of themselves and move forward, tha if you admit it's a struggle it's 'encouraging discrimination'

That just seems Charles' way

Charles needs a smack sometimes.

It's certainly complicated. The different disabilities need different accommodations is a good analogy.

burnt_toast: that's the Catholic in him

i know rogue would rather get control on her own above all else

but when it came to wedding and honeymoon? headache was worth it.

dorohedoro: yeah it needs to be treated differently but man was that a TIME for a while

then it became a necessity when her powers evolved

It definitely feels like an accomodation they ignored for too long. Hopefully, the advancements to help Rogue will go on to help others

any technological suppression of mutant powers is bad. that's why Cyclops doesn't wear glasses that block his eyebeams, he just keeps his eyes closed