First as a mentally ill person, when im on a lower day im responsible enough to take some minimal precautions for my safety and of others, not activly seek something to make things worse, wanda did exactly that with seeking power from doom.
mental illness explains it, doesnt justify or absolve.
and also mutants dont seem to have money on the island, its all used outside so I personally dont see anything stoping mutants leaving the island besides the danger
We don’t have to get it or like it. It isn’t for us. It is for them, and it works FOR THEM. Is it problematic and strange? Yeah, prolly. Especially to those mutants who have more deeply embraced human centric cultures and faiths.
Do I agree with it, from my perspective as a human who hasn’t conquered death or lost my superpowers to a mad woman’s curse? Eh...it’s not really my place to agree or disagree with something so far outside my contextual comfort zone.
Is it a fascinating wrinkle in this new status quo that will likely lead to something big down the road? And if I’m patient and just enjoy the ride through what amounts to a new, ‘alien’ culture, I might get to see that payoff? Absolutely.
We just need to accept it, as part of a fictional culture that is not ours, and move on.
Or, we can be like colonizers and demand that these filthy savages stop being filthy savages and adopt proper British decorum, or else.
Wanda was of sound mind here and recalls this. She made a choice here.
No, but part of what makes it a good metaphor is that it means more than one thing at the same time. Mutants are an oppressed minority, but what makes them an oppressed minority is that they have power inherent in what makes them a minority.
The book has long since moved beyond the original premise which had Magneto wanting to conquer all humanity in the name of his master race and Xavier going, essentially, "the humans will like us if we stop the evil mutants from killing them." But it's still part of the premise that mutants have power and that Xavier's dream was partly about what superpowered people owe to the less powerful.
To me what makes it a good metaphor is that it illuminates more than one thing. Like, yes, M-Day is horrific because we see people lose what made them a people and forced to conform to someone else's idea of "normal." But it's also about the fact that suddenly losing privilege (which is what the majority of mutant powers are) can actually be traumatic and it doesn't matter whether the privilege was earned or not.
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Im talking about people who can literally build a bomb and blow up a building or drive by and shoot up your house with you and everyone you love in it (which would destroy your reality pretty handily). I’m not taking about nice grandmothers who sing in their church’s choir or the lawyers and teachers.
Last edited by zinderel; 02-26-2020 at 05:16 PM.
This Wanda debate has grown tedious I swear if the retcon is undone some of y'all are going to be sick when they absolve her and invite her to Krakoa.
"Danielle... I intend to do something rash and violent." - Betsy Braddock
Krakoa, Arakko, and Otherworld forever!