Reason Writers Around the Internet: Peter Suderman Talks Politics and Pop Culture With Alyssa Rosenberg on Bloggingheads

Is X-Men: First Class a perfect political allegory for our times? What could political pundits learn from the power struggles in Game of Thrones? Why is Hollywood so condescending towards its sci-fi aliens? At Bloggingheads, Reason Associate Editor Peter Suderman and ThinkProgress blogger Alyssa Rosenberg discuss these questions and more. Approximately one hour. 

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[proegg antichicken]

Yes, I totally agree that mutants have always been a metaphor for homosexuals.

WTF? Really, what-the-fuck. That's as far as I got, but sometimes these pop-culture politicos need to take three or four steps back and understand that their political agenda only shows up in pop-culture becayse they are looking for it.

[mr simple]

Agreed. I have nothing against gay people or characters, but I'm tired of every liberal reading a homoerotic relationship into every male friendship, whether it's X-Men, LOTR, etc.

[Anonymous Coward]

Except when they were metaphors for black people. And Jews. And teenagers.

The big one was the Legacy Virus and the "geniuses" at Marvel declared that the Legacy Virus would be cured when AIDS was.

Brilliant. Fucking. Move.

[Tanya]

Woah. He gets married and starts wearing Hawaiian print shirts.

[WixZoo]

That actually makesa lot of sense when you think about it. Wow.

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[heller]

Does anyone watch these?

[R C Dean]

Oh, sure. Millions of people will see the new X-Men movie. I'm sure Game of Thrones has a respectable audience, too.

[Anyone]

No.

[Barry Loberfeld]

The DESTINIES team reviewed X-Men: First Class

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