ayries:

Disclaimer- as anyone subjected to my blog in the last few weeks knows, I love this film. A potentially awkward amount, to be honest. This isn’t about how it’s terrible in all ways or about how you mustn’t like it.

But there are some really problematic elements to it with regards to sexuality, and race, and gender, and all sorts, and they’ve been bugging me. When that happens I figure the best way for me to deal with them is to write them, so here we are.

Now, I don’t think it’s as simple as X-Men being more problematic than most media, though I guess in a way it is. I think it’s actually more that because X-Men willingly surrounds itself in those elements it shows more.

So. Here we go. Fair warning, this is something like two thousand words long, because I am ridiculous.

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i…mostly agree with you, but we’re never gonna get something that portrays say uh, mystique’s relationship with destiny right, if they can’t even portray the character at that period in her life right

people who make superhero movies are fucknuts and don’t expect anything good from them, ever