“I crafted exquisite legislation vis-a-vis propane and propane accessories.”
I don’t know if anything in King of the Hill would make it canonically impossible, but now I have a hilarious vision of the show being set in the Marvel universe.
Saw *The Unforgiven *Sunday night and I would nominated Little Bill. He was definitely an SOB, but he did have a point about The Duck of Death, William Munny, Ned, and the Kid. They are assassins and a threat to a civilized society.
To me there’s a key difference between
-If Mystique wanders around in her “natural” form, people will point and murmur and she will be an object of curiosity
and
-If Mystique wanders around in her “natural” form, people will try to kill her
The first strikes me as an unavoidable and immutable consequence of human nature. The second, not so much.
But I think it’s a bit inconsistent to say that there’s an openly mutant US senator, but there’s also so much hatred for mutants that, merely walking down the street, they’re in danger for their lives.
IIRC, Hank’s not actually a Senator in the movie; he starts off the film as a Cabinet Secretary, and later gets tapped to be our ambassador to the UN.
Is it, though? Harvey Milk was an openly gay public figure in a time where such a person was at risk for hate crime. Sadly, we’re still in such a time, if not quite as much or in as many places. A progressive area, like San Francisco, New York City, or DC, might elect someone who could be attacked on the street in other parts of the country.
And, of course, Milk was murdered for being gay, literally in office.
Except these intellectual elites (who were all male) seemed to have no problems mind-wiping the womanfolk and turning them into pleasure units.
How true is that? It seems like it was a component, but Dan White shot the Mayor first and then Milk. He had quit is job but wanted it back. Didn’t he have a decent relationship with Milk initially, but then developed animosity towards him due to Milk’s opposition to some of his [White’s] political initiatives?
Dan White’s Motive More About Betrayal Than Homophobia
Seems more complex than just Milk was murdered for being gay.
I largely agree with you if for no other reason than that’s what Stan Lee had in mind when he created them, but I can certainly understand.
One of my guilty pleasures is True Blood, but I’ve always found the comparison the show does between homophobia and anti-vampire discrimination pretty ridiculous compared to the way vampires behave and think it almost legitimizes homophobia, though that’s not what Alan Ball, who is gay himself, is trying to do.
Granted True Blood is deliberately tongue-in-cheek, or perhaps fang-in-cheek would be more appropriate.
That’s like saying Stephen Biko or Emmett Till weren’t murdered for being black.
So why did White kill the Mayor first if it was just about killing a gay guy? I’m not a Dan White apologist, but it seems that White had a political grudge first with a guy that happened to be gay.
From the link:
YMMV
White was also a liberal Democrat, like every other elected official in San Francisco since time immemorial. Not exactly an agent of Jerry Falwell.
Gays were outraged that White was found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder. They mocked the defense attroeny’s suggestion that White was mentally ill (they called hat the “Twinkie defense”). White HAD to be evil, rather than insane!
White inconveniently killed himself (oops… guess maybe he WAS mentally disturbed after all).
The more I turn into a reactionary old fart, the more I think that the villains of Hot Fuzz have a point.
Speaking of which (sort of), I used to be a big fan of The Dukes of Hazzard when I was a kid. Now that I realize that they’re peddling moonshine (that probably makes people blind), that their reckless driving really is an issue, but more importantly now that I understand the significance of the flag painted on top of their car and its “General Lee” moniker… fuck them Duke boys, for real.
To accurately convey what I was trying to say, I think the second should read:
-If Mystique wanders around in her “natural” form, people will fear her, and try to avoid/discriminate against her, because of the potential danger having her around carries with it.
They might kick her out of a bar(the same way they kicked wolverine out of a bar). Essentially out of misunderstanding, and fear. Those two things tend to go hand in hand. While this whole “fear” thing might sound synonymous with some forms if racism, it’s really not. Some white people in NYC might cross the street if they see a suspicious looking black guy heading there way. The difference is that mutants aren’t just limited to mugging you with a knife or a gun. They could have an infinite number of powers that could do much greater harm than a mugging could. Not that mugging isn’t serious, but I would rather be mugged than have Mystique kill me and assume my identity.
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I never said that the mutants themselves were in danger from hateful humans. I merely made the point that normal people would fear openly blue scaly mutants greatly because of the unknown factor. For all they know she is dangerous. Beast is a government official, I’m sure his powers have been evaluated and catalogued, therefore providing him with a transparent public image.
Lol. Some kind of Freudian slip on my part. I thought I edited that out too, but I’m pretty new, so I must have screwed that up.
Jessica Rabbit: “I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.”
Although technically not a villain, she did play twiddlysticks with another man.
Patty-cake, dear. Please keep up.
:smack:Patty-cake it was!
Where the hell did I get twiddlysticks from? Doesn’t even make sense.
I’m sure some of the characters in that movie wouldn’t mind if Jessica Rabbit twiddled their stick.