The idea still flows around that the X-Men are stand-ins for minorities, first in the race war, and now the large culture war of the LGBTQ+etc movements. There are people out there who really don’t care about any other kind of social outcast. I’m a straight white male, but ask me if I felt like an outcast in school and you’ll get a very sad tale of isolation. They even try to insist Stan Lee and Jack Kirby did it on purpose when really Stan just wanted a quick origin for superpowers and he and Kirby tried to come up with a good idea for drama.
Chris Claremont, a name as synonymous with the X-Men as Lee and Kirby, recently did an interview with Popverse saying the same thing, that the X-Men aren’t stand-ins for any one group and are just a concept for good drama and superhero action. For a bonus article, Bounding Into Comics is where I heard of the interview and expands on Claremont’s interview as well as what Lee and Kirby themselves have said in the past.
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Just adding I’m not saying that they aren’t treated as minorities in the Marvel Universe. What I’m saying is they’re not exclusive to any one minority group or even just minorities. Any outcast, social or otherwise, can relate to these characters.
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