Comments on: The X-Men Made Me Gay

The X-Men Made Me Gay

The Whelk — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 08:08:39 -0800

An autobiographic comic for The Nib about how early exposure to the 90s X-Men cartoon and subsequent movie gave a confused gay teenager a metaphor to deal with it.

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:35:28 -0800

Sadly, you are being totally upstaged on The Nib by R. Stevens' cartoon of 'Scottbert' Adams that resulted in a Twitter war he won easily and K.C. Green's "This Is NOT Fine" sequel (with its frighteningly successful tie-in Kickstarter), but still an excellent narrative comic. Bravo to you and Bravo to The Nib 2.0 (or 2.1 or 3.0, I've lost track)!

By: Megafly

Megafly — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 16:21:27 -0800

What, no links to the twitter war?

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 23:41:47 -0800

Re Dana Scully: "That is proof of eyesight not heterosexuality." Brilliant. And true.

By: yorick

yorick — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 04:39:47 -0800

This is great! I had an oddly similar experience.

I went to a catholic school for elementary. In 3rd grade religion class, a student asked "can a boy marry a boy, or a girl marry a girl?"

The teacher responded with something along the lines of "that is called gay, and it is a sin". I was so angry, the variation they were describing was no different than the unfairly persecuted mutants in X-Men. To me, it was just another superpower.

My teacher could see how angry I was and asked me what I was thinking. I dont recall how I responded exactly, but it was emotional and I got sent to the office for it. The X-Men made me an LGBT ally before I knew what LGBT was.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 15:36:31 -0800

Is there was actually a Twitter war over anything I wrote please never, ever tell me.