I just don’t get people who say X-Men wasn’t “woke” until recently. It never even tried very hard to hide the metaphors…

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    8 months ago

    I don’t like to use the word “woke” because it’s become a conservative buzzword that has no real meaning anymore besides “something I don’t like”.

    I grew up reading X-Men in the 80s and 90s, I watched the X-Men animated series when it came out and have watched it again in the last few years. Yes it is very progressive and liberal. That was the entire reason X-Men comics were created in the first place way back in 1963. It was originally meant to be a commentary on racism in America but has branched out to cover all sorts of liberal topics over the years

    Anyone who tries to put some kind of right wing spin on the X-Men is either trolling you or is legitimately delusional

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      8 months ago

      The people who complain about X-Men being “woke” are the same group of people who complained that Rage Against the Machine had “gotten too political”.

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      8 months ago

      I love X-Men comics as a queer person. I feel like their one of the few comic teams that cared about its characters being queer and not just as an afterthought.

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        8 months ago

        I haven’t kept up with the comics as much these days, but I’ve seen that they’re doing a lot more LGBT stuff lately. Looks like some of them are pretty good stories too, maybe I’ll pick it back up!

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          I got back into comics when Hickman “soft-booted” the X-Men with Krakoa. Now they are on the “Fall of X” storyline, post Krakoa. It is indeed a exciting and great time. I’m enjoying it.

          There are a lot of LGBT characters and I feel they are treating them like real people or real mutants anyway instead of just it as an after thought. Most teams or books have at least one LGBT identifying individual on it, but most are in relationships, so they dive into that. I am a straight white man though so I probably have blind spots somewhere.