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seriousfic (seriousfic) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-03-06 12:32:00

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char: husk/paige guthrie, publisher: marvel comics, title: generation x

Crossing Over With Paige Guthrie

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	mullon 2009-03-06 12:54 pm UTC (link)
	Because weren't we all happy the first time we peeled off our own skin? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	As a matter of fact... halloweenjack 2009-03-06 01:29 pm UTC (link)
	Every summer, when we'd burn and peel, my siblings and I would compete to see who could pull off the largest intact piece of skin. Hey, you asked. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: As a matter of fact... leikomgwtfbbq 2009-03-06 01:36 pm UTC (link)
	Didn't everyone do that? Shit, I did that with my friends on the trail crew last year. I usually won. D: (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: As a matter of fact... foxhack 2009-03-06 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	Burn and peel? Whuh? I must be strange because I've never had that happen to me. Then again, I inherited my mother's genetics, which means I tan easily, never burn, and never peel. ^^; (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: As a matter of fact... dorksidefiker 2009-03-06 06:14 pm UTC (link)
	My brother's skin is the same way. Something ELSE he always used to tease me about, since I combust upon direct contact with sunlight, and thus usually ended up with an ongoing nasty sunburn within three days of the start of summer vacation. Which he would then proceed to poke at every opportunity. /rant that I should probably share with a therapist. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: As a matter of fact... joysweeper 2009-03-06 09:45 pm UTC (link)
	I've never peeled either. I get kinda red sometimes, but they say sunburns hurt, and I haven't. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	besamim 2009-03-06 01:29 pm UTC (link)
	Very obliging of God, wasn't it? Let's see..."If you don't make me immensely wealthy soon, I swear I'm going to start oozing money!" ...Damn, nothing. (Reply to this)

	dorksidefiker 2009-03-06 01:53 pm UTC (link)
	Hehehe... this was gonna be part of the GenX megapost I'm working on, but yay! It's posted! Gods, little Paige was so enthusiastic about being a mutant. (Reply to this)

	icon_uk 2009-03-06 02:51 pm UTC (link)
	I recall this wasn't apparently going to be her power. In the "Child's Play" story which introduced her as a mutant, she mentions she could shed her skin, but she couldn't control, not her substance, but her SHAPE; she wanted to become something vicious and dangerous to stop the guys who had kidnapped Sam, and ended up turning into a small bird instead. (Reply to this)

	filbypott 2009-03-06 10:13 pm UTC (link)
	Y'know, it's incredibly nice to see a superhero who's A) a mutant but not a wad of angst, B) a Christian but not a bigot, and C) a Southerner but not a dumb hick. (I say this as a New England atheist who can't stand the X-Men.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	regulus13 2009-03-07 12:47 am UTC (link)
	And I say to you as a Southerner, we are not dumb hicks. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	filbypott 2009-03-07 02:49 am UTC (link)
	I never said you were. What I'm saying is that it's an unfortunate stereotype in a lot of media, and it's refreshing to see it averted. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

angelophile
2009-03-07 12:55 pm UTC (link)

That was a deliberate move on the part of Scott Lobdell when he was setting up the book. He deliberately set about to play with stereotypes - while a lot of new X-men characters tended to follow certain stereotypes (for example, the New Mutants), he wanted to create a team that messed around with that, so the "hick" Southerner was the class intellectual, the Latino gang member the nice guy, the cultured Brit taciturn and so on.

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	regulus13 2009-03-07 03:32 pm UTC (link)
	Heh, that's awesome. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	regulus13 2009-03-07 03:31 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, my bad. Excuse my reaction, but like you said, unfortunate stereotype and all that. :þ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ceru 2009-03-07 08:35 pm UTC (link)
	Sadly, it's a totally understandable reaction. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	regulus13 2009-03-07 09:05 pm UTC (link)
	I appreciate your sympathy. It's nice to see there are people out there who don't shut off their brains when they think about us. Ah, well, life goes on. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	filbypott 2009-03-07 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	Nah, that's okay. I could have phrased it better. I mean, I know Southerners and Christians (but oddly no Southern Christians) and none of them fall into those stereotypes. Plus stereotypes in general are something I hate. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	regulus13 2009-03-08 01:32 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, I know how you feel. It's annoying how some stereotypes fill people with righteous indignation, while others are excused because their targets don't share the same ideology as said people. Anyway, I appreciate you being so cool about all this. This was (is?) why I loved S_D: people could be reasonable...on the internet! LJ, how could yoooouuuuuuuuu! D: (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ceru 2009-03-07 08:39 pm UTC (link)
	Innit? (I'm originally from Philadelphia, though I've been in Massachusetts for most of the last decade. But my dad is from Texas, and the smarmy Northeastern refusal to admit C and its cousin D (Texans who aren't bigoted or dumb hicks or other nasty stereotypes) made him cranky for about thirty years.) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	filbypott 2009-03-07 11:28 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I've noticed that other Americans see Texans the way the rest of the world sees Americans. :P And then there's the stereotype that us New Englanders are all out-of-touch librul snobs who want to ruin the American way of life, but that's a rant for another time... >_> (Reply to this) (Parent)

regulus13
2009-03-08 01:45 am UTC (link)

As a fellow Texan, I feel his pain. D:
But yeah, since I'm also Asian, some of my other Asian friends feel free to make fun of the whole Southern/Texan deal to my face, which annoys me to no end, because I'm very proud to be a Texan/Southerner, and also have non-Asian friends who would be very offended by those remarks. Perhaps I should retaliate by telling them that they're spoiled middle-class suburbanites with no future except as office workers... >:D

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kingrockwell
2009-03-08 07:53 pm UTC (link)

When I was growing up in Washington state, my best friend and his family were all from Texas. I never encountered any kind of stereotyping toward it till I moved to Texas when I was eleven, but the stereotype I encountered more often was Texas pride, which is as big as everything else there. It might've been the part that put me off of the place, but spending your entire angsty teenagedom somewhere might just have that effect anyway.

When I was nineteen and I moved to Georgia, after the culture shock of finding the people who inspired the Southerner=Hick stereotype (it isn't all of them! but they are definitely here), I was surprised even more to find myself defending Texas from these same people.

I don't like to assign scapegoats, especially not one so common, but maybe it's Bush's fault? Partly?

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	fuzzybluelogic 2009-03-07 09:59 pm UTC (link)
	Oh Paige, How I love you so. (Reply to this)