• Question: "I think the X-Men are analogous to any number of different things. Which is one of the beauties of the concept—all kinds of different people can find something to relate to in their struggle." - Including being analogous to X-Men fans who find themselves disenfranchised since Marvel put themselves in a situation where they don't get 100% of the profits from their most popular characters? In this case, Marvel would be the government persecuting those fans, who would be mutants themselves... - Anonymous
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    brevoortformspring:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdsL4kvp_I

    Dear Anonymous:

    “Disenfranchised” means to be deprived of the right to vote or to be otherwise oppressed or marginalized. 

    Your argument here seems to be that since Marvel made a deal that gave a movie studio the right to make X-Men movies, you, as an X-Men fan, have somehow been oppressed, and that Marvel is persecuting you.  You make this argument in a universe where there are currently no less than 3 ongoing X-Men comic titles, where an X-Men movie was released earlier this year and 7 such films have been released since 2000, and where, for example, the Google search “x-men t-shirt” produces 169,000,000 results.

    I don’t know you.  You are, of course, anonymous.  But in an unusually generous spirit, allow me to say that I sincerely hope this is the worst persecution you ever experience.

    Because if any member of an actually oppressed group ever hears you comparing your plight of only having a massive selection of entertainment products to spend money on instead of the imaginary ones you’ve come up with in your head to the actual suffering of ethnic, gender, religious, and sexual minorities in this or any other country…they may stomp your head in.
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