Mutants Are A Metaphor

i hate mutants being a metaphor for the LGBT+ community. i hate magic being a metaphor for mental illness or literally anything. i hate all of them.

do you know why? there are many reasons. there are still homophobic and transphic fan of mutants, who refuse to recognize the metaphor being there.

i hate magic being a metaphor for mental illness because mages are constantly depicted as giving into their “demons” in the blink of an eye, tht they’re to blame for their oppression for being born dangerous walking weapons.

and mostly i hate it because it introduces this disgusting belief that anyone who supports these metaphors is actually a Good Ally, and anyone who doesn’t is a Bad Ally, even if the people who hate it are part of the group allegedly being represented by these metaphors and they hate them because they are uncomfortable. There is no line drawn bc they can’t fathom that these particular marginalized groups are allowed to decide whether they like these metaphors for themselves, personally. Which they are, btw, you are allowed to want those for yourself if you aren’t forcing it onto others.

The same people who will bash their shields yelling about what good people they are for supporting these awful metaphors will turn around and use slurs and call people who don’t like them oppressors for not wanting the abuse they experience on the daily limited to something like this.

Read through an LGBT lens, X-Men are all survivors of their struggles with identity — and it’s usually their post-adolescent identity. They’ve all found strength in their differences. They’ve all found pride in their otherness.

Every black man shot by the cops or black woman killed in custody, could translate so easily to visible mutations like feathers or claws for hands or unusual eyes etc. So much; ‘I was scared for my life’ bullshit, I had to shoot.

But I guess it’s hard when the creators are really really white, and the majority of mutant characters pass for white, are white or are given disguises  that SEEM white, to really look at that glaring similarity between mutantphobia and anti-blackness.

At the fact mutants can’t even go live a lift of their own on some island; because that’s just too suspicious and not under control.

And I can’t even get into how BLM or the Black Panthers get treated like Magneto’s crew. But this is an analogy that doesn’t get used now in the modern present, as much as it was hell of misunderstood in the original past.

You’re a mutant. Like us.