Post by Souriquois on Mar 5, 2018 21:28:45 GMT -4
This really makes me bang my head against the desk.
People complain about Marvel movies putting in too much "social justice".
Well, first off, Marvel superheroes were always fighting the good fight, they were literal "social justice warriors".
Let's look at the movies:
X-Men is a metaphor of the Civil Rights movement. These guys are all mutants in a world where mutants are oppressed. Professor X is supposed to be a metaphor for Martin Luther King Jr., he opens a school for mutants and teaches them to harness and use their powers for good, and advocates for a world where humans and mutants can live together. Magneto, on the other hand, is supposed to be a representation of Malcolm X, who advocates mutant liberation by any means necessary, and his mutants target human institutions.
Black Panther came out during the Civil Rights movement. It was an imagining of a natural resource rich African nation that was never colonized.
There have been female superheroes forever. There have also been gay superheroes forever.
I am personally excited for Alpha Flight, and one member of Alpha Flight, North Star, is gay and struggles with his own sexuality. It has been part of the story since forever. Also, another strain in Alpha Flight is resistance to multinational corporations. Like X-Men, where Professor X and Magneto are white mutants (something widely criticized), the comics originally used people and cultures closer, and Alpha Flight are Canadian rather than a Third World country where this stuff always happens. Guardian founds the team after he learns of plans by a corporation to exploit and sell off Canada's natural resources, which in the Marvel Universe includes adamantium, to the US on the cheap.
It's not "ruining your childhood", it's just maybe, you didn't pick up on that as a kid.
People complain about Marvel movies putting in too much "social justice".
Well, first off, Marvel superheroes were always fighting the good fight, they were literal "social justice warriors".
Let's look at the movies:
X-Men is a metaphor of the Civil Rights movement. These guys are all mutants in a world where mutants are oppressed. Professor X is supposed to be a metaphor for Martin Luther King Jr., he opens a school for mutants and teaches them to harness and use their powers for good, and advocates for a world where humans and mutants can live together. Magneto, on the other hand, is supposed to be a representation of Malcolm X, who advocates mutant liberation by any means necessary, and his mutants target human institutions.
Black Panther came out during the Civil Rights movement. It was an imagining of a natural resource rich African nation that was never colonized.
There have been female superheroes forever. There have also been gay superheroes forever.
I am personally excited for Alpha Flight, and one member of Alpha Flight, North Star, is gay and struggles with his own sexuality. It has been part of the story since forever. Also, another strain in Alpha Flight is resistance to multinational corporations. Like X-Men, where Professor X and Magneto are white mutants (something widely criticized), the comics originally used people and cultures closer, and Alpha Flight are Canadian rather than a Third World country where this stuff always happens. Guardian founds the team after he learns of plans by a corporation to exploit and sell off Canada's natural resources, which in the Marvel Universe includes adamantium, to the US on the cheap.
It's not "ruining your childhood", it's just maybe, you didn't pick up on that as a kid.