• @thantik
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    -5110 months ago

    Jesus, the need to be the victim in everything is so strong nowadays.

      • chaogomu
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        3910 months ago

        Add in heavy elements of anti-racisim and you have a more accurate picture.

        Mutants were the marginalized, of every stripe.

        After all, the early 60s we’re the height of the civil rights movement. The human enemies in the comics were saying shit that was lifted whole cloth from what white supremacists were saying in the US.

            • Jojo
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              110 months ago

              I took a survey recently that asked if I thought people were too sensitive about things other people say and I couldn’t bring myself to say disagree completely, because so many people are so sensitive about the idea of someone else being hurt by something

            • @thantik
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              -310 months ago

              Given that Mutants were written more for all marginalized groups and not JUST LGB individuals is the point here. But yeah, “anyone who doesn’t agree with me is literally hitler” is the appropriate lemmy-take on it.

              • @Dozzi92
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                510 months ago

                Lemmy is definitely black and white but your comment didn’t exactly read that way. I don’t think you’re Hitler though, shit just gets lost easily in text.

                • @thantik
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                  10 months ago

                  Because back in the 60s-80s, the T hadn’t been adopted yet?

                  From about 1988, activists began to use the initialism LGBT in the United States. Not until the 1990s within the movement did gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people gain equal respect.

                  The transgenderism movement hasn’t really been accepted widely until rather recently, in fact. EVEN with “LGBT” becoming a thing in the early 90s. There was some discussion of “this being a thing since the beginning” – so I’m referencing that time period in relation to that part of the discussion.

    • @800XL
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      410 months ago

      Tell me more! I want to hear! I had no idea.

      • @thantik
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        010 months ago

        No, Mutants were more than an allegory for gay and non-hetero people. They were more focused on other marginalized groups at the time. That included the aforementioned group, but bonehead worded it in such a way that it made it sound it was only for that group of people.

        • @TheActualDevil
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          910 months ago

          Yeah, they’re the bonehead who worded things poorly…

          • Jojo
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            010 months ago

            I mean their username is literally Bonehead, so…

        • Bonehead
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          710 months ago

          I may have accidentally implied that all mutants are just a stand-in for gay people, which the scene in question very much IS about gay people since no one talks like that about a disability. But at least I didn’t just brush them off as just crying victim.