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"The means are as important as the end - we have to do this right or not at all.
Anything less negates every belief we've ever had, every sacrifice we've ever made."
"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"No justice, no peace."
"Mentioning Mastermind and Jean brings up an important point. Today I am sure Chris and I would be condemned for what was, after all, a prolonged psychic rape—which we knew at the time."
John Byrne
Look at that Lenil Yu art.
"Cable was right!"
I love how people always go back to problematic stories from 30 years ago. Comics change people, the writers back then got away with a lot of unfortunate things because people didn't push back on them the way they do today.
Everyone has an absolute right to push back on Marauders colorists for making Storm look almost white. This is a valid criticism on a book that is happening right now today!
Going back into Chris Claremont's twisted fantasies about women, all I can say is for all of his appearances of progressiveness with female characters and people of color, there was an underlying sexual BDSM aspect to a lot of it, and there were even racist tropes in there too, and in some ways I sometimes wonder if Claremont was a bit more misogynist then people acknowledge. Black Queen Jean was racist with Ororo because that is how Claremont envisioned Jean's dark side. Another writer would do it entirely differently than that based on Jean's history as a character. Emma Frost, I don't even think she was racist, she was an equal opportunity villain who would mind control any target to get her way. If anything I think she was attracted to Storm, or at the very least thought Storm was beautiful so she picked her to be the one who she took over to infiltrate the X-Men at the time.
Lets go to the current modern run, or even back to the 90's.
In the 90's, Jean and Ororo were close friends and they acted like they were, and they have been ever since.
In the 90's, Emma Frost was co-headmistress with Sean and the ran a school with a very diverse class of teenagers. They were also really supportive of their class. I think the only people Emma is prejudiced against is humans, but even there she makes exceptions for people who are being oppressed, like when she convinced Scott to let those human refugees come to Utopia.
In the current run, Jean and Ororo are friends.
In the current run, as much as Emma and Ororo aren't talking right now, Emma still respects Ororo so much that she wanted Ororo to be her first pick to take the Red Queen position and be a partner in the financial day to day operations of the Hellfire Trading Company! Personally, I think Emma wants to get Ororo back as a friend and I wouldn't be surprised if this comes up in Marauders at some point.
We also know that Emma and Jean are going to team up to rescue Ororo in the Giant Size in February. Why, because they both care about Ororo and want to help her! Heck, this is the reason that Emma and Jean are going to set aside their differences for a bit, because they are worried about Ororo and choose to work together to save her.
I made an edit, "refugees come to Utopia"
We are MUTANT..Krakoa, FOREVER!!! “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité”
So did a lot of kids in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Seriously is having corn rows really cultural appropriation, or is it cultural admiration!
I have seen some elaborate cultural Halloween costumes that are not derogatory, but realistic, because the people making those costumes admire that culture. But on the other hand there are people who do costumes that are racial stereotypes and there are a lot of those people too. A lot of kids emulated their favourite African American singers because they admired those people and they were heroes to them as kids.
So Jean with cornrows on a trip with her parents! Maybe her favourite american singers were all female hip hop and rap artists!
We are MUTANT..Krakoa, FOREVER!!! “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité”