#x-rants

[gerrysherry]

I feel like y’all first class fans really think the guy with the all consuming revenge quest who grew up in a country that famously tortured and killed gay people has slept with more men than the priveledged guy who is a college professor and canonically thinks with his dick

I’m sorry but just because Erik is the bad boy in the ship doesn’t mean he’s slept with more people. In fact I do think Charles is the first man he’s had feelings for if NOT his first love period

[gerrysherry]

"Magneto is gay and has only loved Charles". Excuse me, are you implying he didn't love the three* mothers of his various children, especially Magda?! Are you implying he didn't have other boyfriends?

Cherik is the romance of the century but both of them have had other relationships ffs

You will pry my problematic Jewish bisexual representation from my cold dead hands

*I count Astra mother/creator of Magneto's clone Joseph

[gerrysherry]

OK Orion quickly point to the able-bodied heterosexual white men in the first class

Cyclops? that guy uses a an aid to see he is NOT ABLE-BODIED

Beast? the man cannot wear normal shoes and is clearly some form of neuro-divergent his ALSO DISABLED

Angel? pretty sure having to hide your wings and not being able to wear certain outfits counts as a disability too

Jean? NOT A MAN and faints when she over uses her powers so possibly also disabled

Bobby? Haha he's mixed and gay so not a heterosexual white man

Xavier? You're joking right? Xavier is the poster child of "quick think of wheelchair user in superhero media"

Where are the able-bodied men in X-men, Orion?

The Xavier istitute is a thinly veiled metaphor for a school for gifted disabled kids

they're all white/white-passing because it's a fancy prep school

Len Wein looked at that and decided to make the new team ethnically diverse and more power to him

[gerrysherry]

Not to sound like a fascist who rejects modernity and yearns for a past that never was but I think X-men comics were best in the 80s and 90s and most modern ones feel cringey on the nose and watered down.

I actually hate the krakoan age for it's cultural appopration and character derailment, I hate x-men bemis time travel arc for the character derailment and quasi incel entitlement everyone has for teen Jean, I hate Morrison for the character derailment and trying to return it to the silver age when it was bad, I'm neutral on Whedon run because of the fridging and the character derailment, I hate the silver age for not taking itself or it's metaphor seriously. I enjoy the Claremont era derailment because that was good derailment tho

I sound like an comicsgater who rants about gays and women in comics when I say that

Maybe I don't like x-men, Maybe I just like Claremont and Nocenti and Gage and Pak. Maybe I like the themes but not the execution of X-men. Maybe that's the problem.