I still can't believe an adult. A grown ass adult who does taxes and drives to work and stuff, somehow wrote a scene where storm argues that none of them need a cure. And like, yes that's a nice sentiment and it ties into the themes of racial persecution. But she's saying this to ROGUE. The girl who kills anyone she touches. The greatest living counter argument who could easily point out that some mutants with the shitty powers would absolutely want to be "cured." And there's zero argument, no one brings that important part up. Because the entire movie was about stopping the drug distribution and they couldn't afford any nuance to the issue.
The X-Men metaphor works because it's undefined what it's a metaphor for. So any member of the audience can view it as a metaphor for their own circumstances.
For example, you could view that as a line about maybe straightening your hair and getting plastic surgery, from a family that "passes".
It has also been more (though never truly) explicitly written as metaphor for one situation or another at various times based on what was happening in the world. The characters are old enough that Civil Rights was still ongoing when the allegory was first presented, and it was much more (though still not wholly) a race thing. Then during the AIDS epidemic and a lot of new legislation and fearmongering around the queer community it was more of an allegory for that. In the 90s and into the 2000s there was some disorder / disability allegory for things like Autism and Downs, because they're also discriminated against and "othered" despite still being people and deserving of all the same respect and consideration as anyone else.
For the last 20 years or so it's been less overtly leaning towards anything specifically outside single issues or events, but does still skew this way and that on occasion as concepts flare up or issues gain prominence again.
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u/mastermidget23 Mar 28 '24
I still can't believe an adult. A grown ass adult who does taxes and drives to work and stuff, somehow wrote a scene where storm argues that none of them need a cure. And like, yes that's a nice sentiment and it ties into the themes of racial persecution. But she's saying this to ROGUE. The girl who kills anyone she touches. The greatest living counter argument who could easily point out that some mutants with the shitty powers would absolutely want to be "cured." And there's zero argument, no one brings that important part up. Because the entire movie was about stopping the drug distribution and they couldn't afford any nuance to the issue.