{"id":211,"date":"2001-12-14T00:44:29","date_gmt":"2001-12-14T08:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2001\/12\/14\/211.html"},"modified":"2001-12-14T00:44:29","modified_gmt":"2001-12-14T08:44:29","slug":"mutants-race-silliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2001\/12\/14\/mutants-race-silliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutants, race, silliness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kam pointed me to a very entertaining article from last year, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernhumorist.com\/mh\/0007\/xmen\/\">Speaking Truth to Superpowers<\/a>,\" at <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernhumorist.com\/\">Modern Humorist<\/a>.<\/cite>  It's all about why and how white mutants discriminate against mutants of color, particularly Storm.  If you never read <cite>X-Men,<\/cite> though, it probably won't make any sense.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.  Also, I should warn you upfront that the article stops abruptly in midsentence at the end of its second page; not sure whether there's more to it somewhere or whether they stopped writing it there.<\/p>\n<p>And that page led me to their page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernhumorist.com\/mh\/0006\/mp3_rerun\/index.cfm\">movie theme song parodies<\/a>; I enjoyed the faux Tim Rice\/Elton John\/Disney approach to a <cite>Perfect Storm<\/cite> theme song as well as the filk of Jewel's \"Hands\" from Wolverine's point of view.  The latter starts very weak but improves by the time the chorus rolls around:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My mutant chromosomes<br>\nAnd the<br>\nStrong metal in my bones<br>\nHelp me<br>\nFight Sentinel robot drones<br>\nAnd I heal very quickly. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kam pointed me to a very entertaining article from last year, &#8220;Speaking Truth to Superpowers,&#8221; at Modern Humorist. It&#8217;s all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}