Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
Considering how Susan Storm is a Grade-A Karen who acts like she owns Yancy Street, I am not sure if that's the best flex.
Well the current run on Krakoa does expand into non-mutant issues like ecology and environmentalism (the X-gene and mutantkind being that they are organic conduits of power are essentially natural selection's last defense against the anthroposcene world that's gutting the planet for its resources with the ultimate aim of creating a cold lifeless singularity), and also economic issues like capitalism and neoliberalism (in X-Men #4 with Hickman/Yu in that classic issue with Xavier/Magneto/Apocalypse at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where Magneto rocks a white suit, and Apocalypse looks Dr. Manhattan-ish in a double-breasted suit).
One thing about the X-Men and the minority metaphor is that the X-Men's heyday in discussing these issues happened in the 70s and 80s when you had censorship and industry taboos about dealing with a lot of hot-button issues. The X-Men became the place to deal with and talk of those issues...but in the last two decades where you have Kamala Khan and Miles voicing the immigrant and hyphenated community experience, where Black Panther and its Afrofuturism has taken off, as has Jessica Jones and Luke Cage...the X-Men no longer hve monopoly to discuss those issues or be the locus for representating that.
Hickman's run acknowledges that and he has to foreground some other element to redefine mutants within the Marvel Universe. And the one he hit upon, the one which explains why X-men are hated while FF and Avengers are liked is that the former represent natural selection and organic transhumanism, while the latter are essentially, useful idiots for our machine overlords. It's bold, it's provocative, and the story becomes about the environment. The X-Men represent the environment, the earth, the biosphere and that's something more primal and basic.
Hickman said that the X-Men need to constantly evolve and change, unlike other Marvel titles where (Fantastic Four, Spider-Man) you have some consistency. The X-Men ultimately are intended to challenge the idea of normal and provide a sense of otherness. So the current X-Men run has an entire society concieved and executed in a way different from how humans have organized theirs, where they are basically on the way of developing their own religion, their own language, their own science (like that sequence where they use mutant powers to basically be their own NASA and Houston using just powers). It's even gotten into expanding and challenging the family structure so you have Jean-Scott-Logan-Emma in a poly relationship, overturning monogamous norms and so on.