there'd be like, 2, maybe 3 guys i'd brutally torture while on magneto's side the first few months, then run back to Proff. X...that bald bastard is awsome, logen rocks and hey, they got a sweet mansion and the worlds best virtual reality CHAMBER for cryin out loud, i'd be gaming aaaaaal day
The Big Picture: Magneto Was Right
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Mutants are a poor metaphor for racism and bullying. Bullying is what you call it when someone in a position of power abuses it. In the locker room, this comes from jocks picking on nerds, because force is eventually the ultimate debate technique. Punishing the bullies for personal justice is one thing. Punishing all jocks would be a very different thing. Sometimes Magneto kills some rednecks who murdered a defenseless mutant. Fine. Sometimes he tries to destroy humanity. BAD.
Mutants are a poor metaphor for racism and bullying. Bullying is what you call it when someone in a position of power abuses it. In the locker room, this comes from jocks picking on nerds, because force is eventually the ultimate debate technique. Punishing the bullies for personal justice is one thing. Punishing all jocks would be a very different thing. Sometimes Magneto kills some rednecks who murdered a defenseless mutant. Fine. Sometimes he tries to destroy humanity. BAD.
Good answer. Honestly, as much as I'd like to think I'd be a good guy, the fact is that I'd probably be evil... or chaotic neutral, like Deadpool. I just have a few too many psychotic supervillain tendencies.Aiddon said:
Woh Bob, I'm sure I didn't just hear you make fun of Michael Jordan. That man went through so much hardship to get where he is today.
Hey Bob, I've been a big fan up until now but the claim you make about nerds and geeks being superior to other people - it's ridiculous. People are scared of what they don't understand, and bullies do tend to bully people with a higher intellect than themselves but not always. I don't know if this is because I grew up in England but the people who bullied me were just as smart as me, it just happened that they were socially accepted as well whilst I wasn't.
My main qualm however is about the claim of superiority. Whoever you are, a human life is a human life. Bill Gates is saterised as much as any rich man, it just happens that he's (or was depending who you ask) the richest one and is also a geek. Druglords are saterised as well and portrayed as evil, does that make them geeks?
Whilst I agree on most things you say Bob this one just seemed ignorant
My main qualm however is about the claim of superiority. Whoever you are, a human life is a human life. Bill Gates is saterised as much as any rich man, it just happens that he's (or was depending who you ask) the richest one and is also a geek. Druglords are saterised as well and portrayed as evil, does that make them geeks?
Whilst I agree on most things you say Bob this one just seemed ignorant
I was picked on, though the I think the main reason now is because I'm a motherfucking giant compared to everybody else. Tallest guy in elementary school in grade 7. Ya, I'm not kidding. But ya, the reason I was picked on is because they could get a reaction out of me. Ya I'm smart. And ya, I'm pretty smart. But the only reason they picked on me was because they could piss me off. But I have to say that that wasn't my fault, I have aspergers so that's not my fault. For anybody that doesn't know, it means I have crazy anxiety issues. Anyways, I was different in school. Before a single drip of nerdyness came from me they picked on me. But ya, pro tip to you guys that are picked on, don't try and get back at them. And DEFINETLY don't try the "Ya whatever, I don't care" route, it doesn't work.
It must have taken courage to admit what made you what you are. Sorry about the really weird sentence structure. Every aspect of my persona probably traces back to being home-schooled in a hyper conservative household.
If I was a mutant I would eschew the conflict entirely, use my powers to become extremely rich, and live in total obscurity. Then I would work out a way to give everyone else superpowers, whether they want them or not. When everyone is superior, no one will be.
If I was a mutant I would eschew the conflict entirely, use my powers to become extremely rich, and live in total obscurity. Then I would work out a way to give everyone else superpowers, whether they want them or not. When everyone is superior, no one will be.
2 things:
1.) I always enjoy seeing that group shot from X-Men: Evolution
2.)I would probably be on the 'work with the people that hate and fear me'(edit:wow I couldn't just say professor X's side) side until about the second time people screamed in terror at me helping them with superpowers.
edit: I would try to crawl back to the X-men once Magneto goes on one of his whole "WIPE OUT HUMANITY!!!MUWAHAHAHA" rants though. This is becoming a tougher decision the more I think about it.
1.) I always enjoy seeing that group shot from X-Men: Evolution
2.)I would probably be on the 'work with the people that hate and fear me'(edit:wow I couldn't just say professor X's side) side until about the second time people screamed in terror at me helping them with superpowers.
edit: I would try to crawl back to the X-men once Magneto goes on one of his whole "WIPE OUT HUMANITY!!!MUWAHAHAHA" rants though. This is becoming a tougher decision the more I think about it.
To be fair, Michael Jordan received ridicule for the way he stuck out his tongue while playing basketball and didn't make varsity his first years of high school.
Not that Bill Gates didn't receive unfair treatment, but Michael Jordan doesn't seem like a good example to reinforce the notion that jocks are always idolized above nerds, since he wasn't really a jock. In fact, I would say that part of the reason he was loved by so many is that he had humble beginnings that we could relate to more easily. Sure, he was talented, but he also showed a lot of people what can be achieved through perseverance and hard work.
Not that Bill Gates didn't receive unfair treatment, but Michael Jordan doesn't seem like a good example to reinforce the notion that jocks are always idolized above nerds, since he wasn't really a jock. In fact, I would say that part of the reason he was loved by so many is that he had humble beginnings that we could relate to more easily. Sure, he was talented, but he also showed a lot of people what can be achieved through perseverance and hard work.
Strange. I am quite the nerd, and I stopped being picked on when I turned 12, I.E. when I went to college. Maybe it's because here the classes are divided into groups with about the same results (not IQ, but more of a learning test)
LOL, I wasn't sure what to make of this episode but the ultimate conclusion was well worth a laugh. That really is a question no one knows the answer to until the moment they are in the situation. I'd like to think I'd resist my darker impulses, or at least eventually grow out of it...
I know this sounds pretentious and pedantic. But the idea that evolution is a linear progression from worse to better is actually a myth. In times of abundance traits that don't confer any selective advantage can survive and even flourish. And natural selection does not necessarily favor the strongest trait, but the one most suited to the particular place and time in which it resides. And being a mutant in the X-men universe confers significant disadvantages as well as advantages, like ordinary people and other mutants wanting to kill you.Tarkand said: