Yeah, what’s missing in the X-men/minority metaphor is the legal concept of “proportionality”. There is significant usefulness in drawing the metaphor, specifically because it highlights the lengths bigots will go to justifying their bigotry in the name of some actual, tangible threat of harm. Bigots believe that gays…

The anti-mutant mania in the X-Men movies is an aspect of the series that always gotten on my nerves. They ostensibly exist in the Marvel superhero universe where other metahumans exist (even if we don’t see them), right? But you don’t really see that kind of attitude from the public in other Marvel (meaning…

I remember in X3 where Storm says that they don’t need a cure and that they’re fine the way they are while standing right next to a woman who can’t have physical contact with anyone without putting them in a coma.

Standard issue X-Men books really don’t have a central metaphor in the way you’re describing. The point isn’t “The X-Men are a direct stand-in for X real people.” It’s more like “don’t assume people are bad just because they’re different from you.” That idea has potential applications in the real world that some…

“Listen, is shooting kinetic energy blasts out of your body that can level a city block really a superpower, or is it just the same as a guy who can operate a wrecking ball?"

Not to mention that the rules about what’s possible change every time a writer comes up with a new idea. If comic-book-style superpowers existed in the real world, they’d follow physical laws and we could construct new legal edifices to deal with them.

Yeah- I think there should be exceptions for people with stupid powers but it might be fair to know what people can throw train cars with their mind (especially bc people get brainwashed constantly in the Marvel Universe). It kind of reminds me of the vampires “God hates fangs” thing in True Blood- there’s a lot of…

Yeah I felt the same way. I didn’t think it was discriminatory to want to have a registry for mutant powers. I mean, beyond the incredible potential for mutants abusing their power, there is also a legal concern. Say, for example, there are a string of baffling bank robberies where money is disappearing from locked…

Well I see why they love him because when most Republicans die they also disintegrate into a pile of goo

If only he brought a fake "Mutant detector" into those meetings he could point at people and see if he could get them to turn on one another. 

The best description I’ve seen:

A good example of a lost breed, the Turnspit dog:

Bonus citrus fact: Many types of oranges are actually green. That includes some that are sold in european and probably north american stores, which are are treated with ethylene to make them orange, as that is what the consumer expects

very Lovecraftian. 

Buddha’s hand citron is a cultivar that is grown because it has a high zest to volume ratio.

There are a few places in America (ye olde Colonial “living museums”) where they try to get unadulterated seeds to grow crops as they were in the pre-Revolutionary-era, and animals that haven’t been cross-bred as far as they know.

Those fruits kinda remind me of the pawpaw. Did you ever see/have one of them? They have giant seeds that take up half of the fruit, which has the texture of an avocado and is too cotton candy tasting for me.

supposedly citron is one of the “fossil” citrus fruits, one of a few that all others (lemons, oranges, etc.) developed from as hybrids. can you imagine slicing open what looks like a wrinkly lemon and finding this?

That comment is bananas.

If it’s a plant biologist looking at these paintings, I assume they mean that they can’t specifically pinpoint the types of grapes, pears, etc. that are in the picture.