Like many peopleses have already said, Marvehas always had female versions of charaacters. i wanna wayyy expand on that though. and donr dorget they
have also made male vrsins of females. IMHO, I am not interested in a female thor personally but I say marvel should be immune ro judging this move as
good, bad, smart, stupid, etc... even if the current political climate is the main influence of this story arc having been written. I say they get a
free pass and then some! No judgement allowed. Marvel has such an incredibly endless list of pioneering for civil liberty and all the topics which we
have seen over the years and generations. Basically Marvel cared about civil liberties and equal rights as well as sending messages of inclusivity
DECADES before it became a self righteous fad.
Not only does the Marvel Universe have countless women who have just as full stories as men, women who aren't looking for a man as a life goal, women
who are more powerful than 100 other male heros combined, Phoenix who inhabited a woman, one of Magneto's daughters being able to shape or even
destroy universes with her thoughts, leaders of teams being often women, Storm being the leader of the XMens gold team for the longest stint of any
leader, women who aren't teachers nurses or moms only biochemists world leaders senators engineers, and side note...all this goes for any ethnicity
and nationality you can think of too and even disabilities are represented. They even made female versions of many characters like Spiderwoman and She
Hulk. Storm is worshipped both on earth and on another planet she rules. Zaladane is the ruler of the Savage Land and Sauron just her tool in the Fox
series where we also see the multiple characters spun into one, a female goddess of "x-ternal" who is the source of Gambit, his gang, and their
rivals, but if you are unaware...
DC comics suck. They just do. And boy are they awkward when they try their hand at politics. Marvel does it so seamlessly though it's incredible. I
remember Stan Lee lecturing years back and he was explaining how XMen was a new little side comic book he started to put together after meeting a
friend who became close to Stan and confided in him that he was a homosexual and it had created so much stress anxiety and a sense of Worthlessness
and no direction in his life that he wished he had a hero who he could look up to but of course tough heros would probably knock out the sicko.
Anyway...Stan was clueless at the time. But he began meeting other homosexuals, he learned about the culture, he was especially moved and disturbed by
the event he never knew existed, "coming out." When you couldn't hide yourself anymore and told your family and friends and faced either abandonment
or if lucky acceptance in a quiet corner of the world. Stan decided he had to create heros who would get a message across to kids that there are
people like you out there so they would have confidence and hope so xmen are a type of mutant who are unaware of anything till they hit adolescence
and suddenly find out they are different but must hide from the world. Eventually they too must decide to come out or not as a mutant. And quite often
they have parents who tell the kid to leave and never come home. They are picked on once kids start suspecting around them, called mutie, told they're
unnatural...But that is what Xavier's school for special young people is. Some kids have parents who are supportive but many many kids came out and
were disowned. So finally kids who were different and living as a fictional persona to the world had tons of heros to identify with who were also
living a lie then coming out and facing the same heartbreaking reactions real kids do. He was choked up explaining it too and once you know this iams
the orgin well duh it's so obvious. And if u followed xmen you kept reading for decades cuz thdy tried to include things that effected the gay
community. Bashing, the idea of legalizing rights for mutants, are they natural or sick, or in the 80s one of the top ten arcs, the phalanx covenant
which saw the coming of Virus and Warlock and led indirectly to the hijacking of the shuttle by the xmen which after being damaged Jean had to
sacrifice her life to shield the team in back while she held the controls through the radiaton of space which killed her but that very moment the
Phoenix which was near and sensed human emotions coming from her and her emotional plummet to deaths was intrigued and revived her by possessing her.
Whoa tangent....but yea Virus, the disease leads to mutants dying all over and government talking registering them or if that is unconstitutional, it
even touches on Jewish death camps as sentinels track down mutants to enslave on genosha where they ars worksd tto death or killed once weak although
it hadn't been but 35 odd yesrs so it was tasteful to allude to but not mirror it when so fresh... anyways this makes homo sapiens afraid of touching
mutants, there are public service announcement trying to teach that u cant get mutany from touching or even kissing a mutant, and religious groups say
the virus is gods judgement on mutants and obviously this mirrored the aids crisis as the kids who read xmen were now kn their twenties and thirties
so it was an appropriate arc.
Point being Stan wasn t your typical company head executive...of which studies show about 88% I think it is of the head execs of multi billion dollar
companies and conglomerates test as sociopath or psychopathic. Stan found success in an alternative to putting a ruthless sociopath in charge, putting
someone in charge who wants his product to make life easier and more enriched for his customers. He truly loved people and saw superheros as a way to
give every age gender a Nd even marginalized type of individual someone they could look at and see themselves in. He did what he did because he wanted
people to love who they are and only for that reason would he have stayed nearly eighty years in his position. If he did it to make a living hed have
retired long ago. Till the day he died his life was showing the world everyone can be a hero and yea I am way emotional discussing this afternoon he
just died but good people are getting harder and harder to find. Stan was an angel and one with a real purpose and who reached every last person on
earth before he died. He must have been over the moon that he really did it. God bless him a million times the most kind hearted person I can think
of.
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