You know, there's something interesting I have noted about the left's reaction to X-men, which I feel to an extent applies to western superheroes in general.
While leftists who like the X-men think of them as an allegory for the civil rights movement, I've heard that those who don't like them see them as the equivalent of a white power group, or feel that they could see themselves as a master race due to how they are sometimes thought of as an evolution of humanity (I don't read a lot of X-men, to be honest, correct me if I am wrong). It's an interesting thought. Similarly, I feel that a lot of the crossing of superhero imagery with alt-right (at least, in the pejorative sense of the left's term) imagery is only really an actual thing in works that mock superhero media like The Boys and Marshall Law, since there seems to be a lot of major Marvel and DC superhero comics who go out the wazoo pandering to the left.
I did once see a headline about the Barbie movie being a Rorschach test of sorts, so I think this could be a similar situation.
The Xmen are a great allegory for minorities, which is often why the smarter in the Left recognize to hate them.
They are absurdly babied "special people" who the world must constantly dance around and protect, or else they will literally chimp out and destroy it. Any hint of "maybe we should protect ourselves from you because you've done this 100 times" is met with "uwu we just want to be free!" while a literal open Supremacist is going around showing that they could in fact genocide the planet if they wanted, and only don't on a whim of morality.
Its a great Rorschach test for a Leftist ability to think beyond their programming. Because the only way the Xmen are a good look for the Civil Rights is if you can only understand "minority = victim" and nothing else.
If I had to sum up the Krakoa-era X-men, I would call it stories about a floating island enthostate run by objectively superior people. That the mutants are then all written like vengeful villains says a lot about the moral inversion of the left and what they'd do if they had power.
I ain’t watching this but I’ll say the problem with allegory is that it always proves the “bigots” correct. There’s no way in hell a teenaged Jean grey wouldn’t become a horrible sex pest on high school. She’ll mind control the girl she’s jealous of into overeating, make whatever guy she fancies worship her, and make teachers do lewd things for fun. Imagine a super strong teen wrestling your own kid, or suddenly the guy who shoots spikes sneezes and murders his class.
True blood is even worse. Every vampire is an ageless murderer who can mind control people. Proving consent is impossible when it comes to sex. Even the “good vampires” murder people or done so in the past, yet not liking them and seeing them as a threat is bad because gay people.
You know, there's something interesting I have noted about the left's reaction to X-men, which I feel to an extent applies to western superheroes in general.
While leftists who like the X-men think of them as an allegory for the civil rights movement, I've heard that those who don't like them see them as the equivalent of a white power group, or feel that they could see themselves as a master race due to how they are sometimes thought of as an evolution of humanity (I don't read a lot of X-men, to be honest, correct me if I am wrong). It's an interesting thought. Similarly, I feel that a lot of the crossing of superhero imagery with alt-right (at least, in the pejorative sense of the left's term) imagery is only really an actual thing in works that mock superhero media like The Boys and Marshall Law, since there seems to be a lot of major Marvel and DC superhero comics who go out the wazoo pandering to the left.
I did once see a headline about the Barbie movie being a Rorschach test of sorts, so I think this could be a similar situation.
The Xmen are a great allegory for minorities, which is often why the smarter in the Left recognize to hate them.
They are absurdly babied "special people" who the world must constantly dance around and protect, or else they will literally chimp out and destroy it. Any hint of "maybe we should protect ourselves from you because you've done this 100 times" is met with "uwu we just want to be free!" while a literal open Supremacist is going around showing that they could in fact genocide the planet if they wanted, and only don't on a whim of morality.
Its a great Rorschach test for a Leftist ability to think beyond their programming. Because the only way the Xmen are a good look for the Civil Rights is if you can only understand "minority = victim" and nothing else.
The critique of mutant supremacy has a point:
If I had to sum up the Krakoa-era X-men, I would call it stories about a floating island enthostate run by objectively superior people. That the mutants are then all written like vengeful villains says a lot about the moral inversion of the left and what they'd do if they had power.
"Ex-men" is still one of my names for troons.
I ain’t watching this but I’ll say the problem with allegory is that it always proves the “bigots” correct. There’s no way in hell a teenaged Jean grey wouldn’t become a horrible sex pest on high school. She’ll mind control the girl she’s jealous of into overeating, make whatever guy she fancies worship her, and make teachers do lewd things for fun. Imagine a super strong teen wrestling your own kid, or suddenly the guy who shoots spikes sneezes and murders his class.
True blood is even worse. Every vampire is an ageless murderer who can mind control people. Proving consent is impossible when it comes to sex. Even the “good vampires” murder people or done so in the past, yet not liking them and seeing them as a threat is bad because gay people.