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The many, many flaws of the X-Men’s alleged allegory notwithstanding, I think part of the reason it resonates with many folks is that being in a position where intracommunity discourse about your own identity is dominated on one side by a glorified high school principal who thinks he understands what’s going on inside your head better than you do, and on the other side by a monologuing misanthrope who honestly believes telling disadvantaged kids to kill their parents constitutes praxis, and everybody acts like you have to choose one side or the other and those are your only options – well, sometimes that feels awfully familiar!
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