[ SECRET POST #2462 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2462 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 057 secrets from Secret Submission Post #352.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think there are two sides -- communities formed on the basis of being mutants are just as valid as any other community. On the other hand, being a mutant does not guarantee and should not require belonging to a mutant community.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but Havok was basically speaking for all mutants in his speech ("Please don't call us mutants").

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not talking about Havok, he's... I'm not sure what he's doing, but it looks smarmy. I'm arguing that there is a place for skepticism on "mutant community" rhetoric.

[nyxelestia]

I'll start with a caveat that I don't really follow the X-Men comics that closely, so most of what I know, I'm inferring from the secret itself and some second-hand knowledge and fandom/cultural osmosis.

That said...I can see why some mutants might be skeptical about the "mutant community" thing, and why others would be skeptical about the skeptics. I'm a part of multiple minorities, but I'm not really connected to any of those communities*, so I can greatly empathize with the disdain for the whole "ethnic/genderqueer/religious/etc community" perception people tend to have, that if you are X you are a part of X group (pun unintended).

* = to be a little more precise, I'm of Indian decent. My father has no connections to the Indian community at all, and my mother's connections are intermittent at best and rarely something she bothers to drag me into. This confuses most of the desi people I meet.

[(Anonymous)]

I think Kitty and the others actually complained about that later