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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 897968" data-attributes="member: 3887">Err, because the guy is {presumably} a freelance writer and he makes a living writing articles?? Or he's just a guy with a particular interpretation of the film --however off-base it might be...And the essay is hardly x-rated, you're overstating things as much as he is...Iceman's "coming out" to his parents is clearly meant to reference a homosexual teen coming out to their parents, right down to the mother saying "Can you try not being a mutant?"I don't buy the rest of it; the overarching theme has always been the fight against bigotry and prejudice in general, saying that's it specifically targets homosexual discrimination does the X-Men a big disservice. It's far more ambitious...But the trick to these kind of critical essays is overstatement, hyberbole. I don't think they're meant to 'exaplain' their subjects completely. They sell {oversell} one particular interpretation. And if they score one or two salient points, well, that's about par for the course. Happens all the time in literary criticism; the Marxist reading of book X, the Freudian reading of book Y...Besides, people interpret works based on their own beliefs/experiences/agendas/ideologies all the time. Who doesn't? Maybe you agree, or disagree, or just maybe you come to view a work in a totally new light after encountering someone else point of view...</blockquote>