Comments on: Notes Towards a Gender Analysis of the X-Men http://dwax.org/2006/02/21/notes_towards_a_gender_analysis_of_the_x-men/ writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:49:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Anonymous http://dwax.org/2006/02/21/notes_towards_a_gender_analysis_of_the_x-men/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-123 <br />what is interesting to me, at least the way that you have presented it, is that the three women, and the versions of femininity that they represent are fairly simple, these three sides (both positive and negative) or the feminine as it has been presented over and over... the natural, the intuitive, the manipulative, the parasite. these all seem fairly "standard". whereas the male characters, particularly Xavier and Psyclops, present much more nuanced ideas of masculinity.. in some ways this isn't surprising since these movies are made by (and largely for) masculine audiences... on the other hand so many things made for male audiences have NO nuance whatsoever. i wonder what creates that space for nuance. my first guess would be that comics have, since their inception during world war II, been a space where concepts of (american) masculinity are played out. good post, great blog. what is interesting to me, at least the way that you have presented it, is that the three women, and the versions of femininity that they represent are fairly simple, these three sides (both positive and negative) or the feminine as it has been presented over and over… the natural, the intuitive, the manipulative, the parasite. these all seem fairly “standard”. whereas the male characters, particularly Xavier and Psyclops, present much more nuanced ideas of masculinity.. in some ways this isn’t surprising since these movies are made by (and largely for) masculine audiences… on the other hand so many things made for male audiences have NO nuance whatsoever. i wonder what creates that space for nuance. my first guess would be that comics have, since their inception during world war II, been a space where concepts of (american) masculinity are played out.

good post, great blog.

]]> By: Anonymous http://dwax.org/2006/02/21/notes_towards_a_gender_analysis_of_the_x-men/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-124 <br />I think there's another real-world dualism in Magneto and X: Simon Wiesenthal and Elie Wiesel. I think there’s another real-world dualism in Magneto and X: Simon Wiesenthal and Elie Wiesel.

]]> By: Anonymous http://dwax.org/2006/02/21/notes_towards_a_gender_analysis_of_the_x-men/comment-page-1/#comment-125 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-125 <br />Interesting analysis of the characters. lots and lots of gender, sexuality, race stuff in the x-men series. a lot more issues with x3 now that theyll fully introduce a bunch of other characters. in terms of wolverine, the undoubtably most popular character in x-franchise history...its interesting because at times he's the typical bad boy character...but in the comic, the cartoon, you get to see especially the emotional side of him which is pretty crazy. actually, in the comic book, how they deal with a lot of the male characters dealing with emotions, loss, heartbreak, isn't really great now that i think about it. Interesting analysis of the characters. lots and lots of gender, sexuality, race stuff in the x-men series. a lot more issues with x3 now that theyll fully introduce a bunch of other characters. in terms of wolverine, the undoubtably most popular character in x-franchise history…its interesting because at times he’s the typical bad boy character…but in the comic, the cartoon, you get to see especially the emotional side of him which is pretty crazy. actually, in the comic book, how they deal with a lot of the male characters dealing with emotions, loss, heartbreak, isn’t really great now that i think about it.

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