• thantik@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Jesus, the need to be the victim in everything is so strong nowadays.

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        8 months ago

        Add in heavy elements of anti-racisim and you have a more accurate picture.

        Mutants were the marginalized, of every stripe.

        After all, the early 60s we’re the height of the civil rights movement. The human enemies in the comics were saying shit that was lifted whole cloth from what white supremacists were saying in the US.

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        8 months ago

        No, Mutants were more than an allegory for gay and non-hetero people. They were more focused on other marginalized groups at the time. That included the aforementioned group, but bonehead worded it in such a way that it made it sound it was only for that group of people.

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            8 months ago

            I mean their username is literally Bonehead, so…

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          8 months ago

          I may have accidentally implied that all mutants are just a stand-in for gay people, which the scene in question very much IS about gay people since no one talks like that about a disability. But at least I didn’t just brush them off as just crying victim.