Okay so y’all remember that scene from x-men first class where Mystique and Proffessor X are at the bar and he’s making small talk with a girl with heterochromia and she says she’s “mutant and proud” and Mystique almost kills a BITCH? that’s basically all you need to know to understand why so many of us lgbt folks wanna snap a mf’s neck when someone who is “aromantic heterosexual cis” says they’re q*eer.
Heterochromia must have gotten her some kind of name calling when she was a kid, but her parents loved her the same, never questioned if they should just get her to eye-color changing therapy. The school stood for her, probably, and she’ll be okay getting a job, and if she ever gets sick no doctor will refuse to help her because of her heterochromia. Mystique, Bobby, Kitty, Rogue and others, however, are not in so much luck. They get kicked out of their families, made to feel like they’re abominations by every single news platform, the goverment has made a cure that they want to force them to take in order to make them normal. No jobs for good ole Raven, ofc, if they find out about her original form. Same for Nightcrawler, who can’t even pass for a non-mutant in the first place. So, Charles Xavier builds his institute for mutant children and adults to have a comfort place to get education and medical help, as a means of giving these outcast children a place where they belong in society, free of their oppressors.
Now, imagine that same girl with heterochromia knocking on the instute’s door, saying she want’s in bc, technically, she’s a mutant. She’s as much a mutant as Mystique, as much a mutant as Kitty or Bobby, biologically. She’s not the perfect definition of normal by society, so she MUST have a place in the institute. Now this girl was never seen as predatory her whole life. Sure, some people might have told her mean things, but just as I said, the government din’t make sure she was as neglected and media didn’t make sure she felt like the scum of society. So, of COURSE she can’t in on the institute. It’s plain out obvious. Even if she DID come in, however, what contributions to their life would she bring, and vice versa? None. It’s a pointless thing from start to finish.
Let’s go back to the “mutant and proud” thing, though. Back then, the stigma around the word mutant wasn’t as big as when the existance of mutants became widespread to the publics, so whatever, this girl couldn’t possibly know that there were real mutants and that’s just it. However, imagine it in the settings of when the cure was announced, and an entire movement of people saying “Heterochromics are mutants! Redheads are mutants! Blue eyed people are mutants too!”. Do you see my point here? See how fucking out of scale that is?
Because the government did look away when lgbt people were dying by the lot and dropping like flies. Hospitals sent them off, and it only became a problem to them when they realized that heterosexual people were, too, affected by HIV. You experience SGA and your boss finds out? Well damn, high chances are that you’re gonna be fired soon enough, he’ll just have to think up a reason. Didn’t lie and say you were straight in the first place? High chances you didn’t even get that job. Can’t pass for cis? It’s commonplace for people to beat you up in the streets, no joke, and the police won’t help.
But sure. Someone called you a plant once, so now you’re “Q*eer and Proud”
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