Saying no,I'm not what you are and never will be, but what I am is better.
I guess it comes down to the fact that I'm not okay with that narrative either? Take it as a metaphor for gay rights, for example- I'm deeply not okay with the kind of activist who refer to heterosexuals sneeringly as "breeders." I mean, obviously mutants are more powerful in a personal, exertion-of-strength sort of way, but that doesn't automatically make them better people, any more than being black or gay or Jewish makes one better than one's neighbor white or straight or gentile neighbor. If it was "mutant and proud, because we're all just as good as each other!" then that would be a different thing, I feel. But that's not... quite what I got. Though this I think is a YMMV sort of thing.
but I think if things had played out differently he could have come to believe in humans and mutants living together. Nearly every human he dealt with lived down to his expectations by the end of the movie, cementing his path.
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Date: 2011-06-11 05:04 am (UTC)I guess it comes down to the fact that I'm not okay with that narrative either? Take it as a metaphor for gay rights, for example- I'm deeply not okay with the kind of activist who refer to heterosexuals sneeringly as "breeders." I mean, obviously mutants are more powerful in a personal, exertion-of-strength sort of way, but that doesn't automatically make them better people, any more than being black or gay or Jewish makes one better than one's neighbor white or straight or gentile neighbor. If it was "mutant and proud, because we're all just as good as each other!" then that would be a different thing, I feel. But that's not... quite what I got. Though this I think is a YMMV sort of thing.
but I think if things had played out differently he could have come to believe in humans and mutants living together. Nearly every human he dealt with lived down to his expectations by the end of the movie, cementing his path.
Upon this, we agree completely.