We did! Someone else made them, but they were both homemade and incredibly groovy.
Yes! And I definitely remember Young Avengers arcs where Teddy and Billy are trying to come out as mutants to Billy's parents, and instead the parents home in on the other closet.
I think maybe it has to do with the acceptability of the movement. Racists in the modern era try to hide behind "I'm not racist because _____", because outright racism isn't considered acceptable, which has sort of changed the nature of the struggle in a lot of ways. Meanwhile, in a lot of place it's still considered perfectly legitimate to fly your homophobic flag.
Sober, it's a lot more obvious to me that the parallel isn't really perfect in either case, and I think what was frustrating me through the vodka was that what parallel is there doesn't get more obvious play. Because people are dumb, and sometimes need to be hit over the head with the point. Somehow, this translated into the Wrong Parallel.
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We did! Someone else made them, but they were both homemade and incredibly groovy.
Yes! And I definitely remember Young Avengers arcs where Teddy and Billy are trying to come out as mutants to Billy's parents, and instead the parents home in on the other closet.
I think maybe it has to do with the acceptability of the movement. Racists in the modern era try to hide behind "I'm not racist because _____", because outright racism isn't considered acceptable, which has sort of changed the nature of the struggle in a lot of ways. Meanwhile, in a lot of place it's still considered perfectly legitimate to fly your homophobic flag.
Sober, it's a lot more obvious to me that the parallel isn't really perfect in either case, and I think what was frustrating me through the vodka was that what parallel is there doesn't get more obvious play. Because people are dumb, and sometimes need to be hit over the head with the point. Somehow, this translated into the Wrong Parallel.
Clearly I should think on this more while sober.