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The X-Men, Persistence, and Hillary Clinton

August 3, 2016 by Ali Davis Leave a Comment

I started casually reading X-Men comics in junior high school and have been dipping in and out ever since. X-men are different, and they’re powerful, and thus people are afraid of them. The overarching theme of the X-Men comics, of course, is that ordinary humans distrust, persecute, and falsely accuse mutants. Ordinary humans call the…

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X-Men: Days Of Failing The Bechdel Test

March 4, 2015 by Norma Krautmeyer Leave a Comment

There’s a particular difficulty in evaluating the X-Men movies for pass/fail of the Bechdel Test. Both Xavier’s ability to speak through other people and Mystique’s metamorph ability rather muddy the waters for assessing whether two or more women in any given X-Men movie are talking to each other about something besides a man. But those…

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