https://padlet.com/mcabr152/zwbekbzfc6a27n4y Made with the help of a typing monkey en-us 2020-07-15 18:59:58 UTC 2026-02-14 21:04:42 UTC hello@padlet.com mcabr152 https://padlet.com/mcabr152/zwbekbzfc6a27n4y/wish/655377929 "Interposing linguistic discrimination on genetic variation, mixing biology and desire. When a gene variant reduces an organism's fitness in a particular environment- hairless man in Antartica- we call the phenomenon genetic illness. When the same variant increases fitness in a different environment, we call the organism genetically enhanced" -The Gene

This theme is pushed to its extremes within the X-Men comics, where there is this "divide" between "normal" humans and humans with genetic modifications (AKA mutants). And it's this vernacular that really causes this divide between these 2 groups of people. ]]> 2020-07-15 19:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mcabr152/zwbekbzfc6a27n4y/wish/655377929 mcabr152 https://padlet.com/mcabr152/zwbekbzfc6a27n4y/wish/655381601 "I was trying to show how unfair it is, to be be opposed to somebody just because he is different than you are. It was really a preachment against bigotry" -Stan Lee in Allegory  in X-men

This theme of bigotry is expressed the best in X-Men: Days of Future Past, which is about basically preventing this bigotry to go its extremes. I have attached a clip of a fight scene between the sentinels and the X-Men (the bigots instrument of death).]]> 2020-07-15 19:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mcabr152/zwbekbzfc6a27n4y/wish/655381601 mcabr152 https://padlet.com/mcabr152/zwbekbzfc6a27n4y/wish/657215884 Raven, or Mystique, is one of the perfect examples of gene recombination. All the "mutants" contain the X-gene that enables their above average human ability. When she was captured scientists were able to discover, within her DNA, they key to her ability to shape-shift and were able to recreate for the sentinels to adapt to the mutant powers.]]> 2020-07-17 23:27:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mcabr152/zwbekbzfc6a27n4y/wish/657215884