[ SECRET POST #2120 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2120 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 069 secrets from Secret Submission Post #303.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - random image ].
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Comments

Re: THIS IS YOU THIS IS HOW BIGOTED YOU SOUND

[luxshine]

Problem: The X-men writers have, time and again, compared being a mutant with being gay.

Including cringe worthy scenes as Profesor Xavier comparing being mutant to being gay seconds before getting shot as the crowd booed him, Moria McTaggert comparing the Legacy Virus to AIDS (Because AIDS TOTALLY only affects gay people) and Iceman being asked by his parents 'Have you tried not being a mutant?'

I agree, the metaphore doesn't work, BECAUSE many, many mutants have accidentally hurt or killed people, but you can't blame readers from comparing the two if the source material does it constantly.

Re: THIS IS YOU THIS IS HOW BIGOTED YOU SOUND

[intrigueing]

This also has the effect of making all caution about mutants into OMG BIGOTRY!!11 I'm not saying there isn't a lot of very effective and well-thought-out anti-mutant discrimination depicted in the X-comics, but it is NOT like being gay or a minority. It is like being a mutant: a human being who has superpowers that make them far more powerful than most human beings but who still has the same rights and liberties and feelings and desires as all normal people. And that's what makes them so fascinating, and often, so tragic. Not "mutant=gay".

Re: THIS IS YOU THIS IS HOW BIGOTED YOU SOUND

[(Anonymous)]

Well, the problem I have with a lot of the anti-mutie ideas is that there's little taking account of whether the person would choose to use their powers against other people. There are certainly people who can't control their powers and they are a problem (I distinctly remember reading about a kid who woke up one day expelling toxic vapors that liquified his whole town; Wolverine was sent in to kill him), but the taking of personal responsibility from others. The preventative measures pisses me off.

Re: THIS IS YOU THIS IS HOW BIGOTED YOU SOUND

[intrigueing]

I totally agree, and this should be obvious, but noooooo, apparently readers won't care about fictional characters's scifi issues unless we're bashed over the head with "this is exactly like being gay!" so we can equate it to specific real-life issues.