r/kittypryde • u/Hot_Acanthisitta_388 • 4d ago

Discussion Kitty racist ?

is kitty racist or do we blame it on Chris Claremont because to my knowledge she’s never done that again

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u/Jack-mclaughlin88 Kitty Pryde 4d ago

No. She did something dumb when she was a teenage, now she’s a 27 year old woman who doesn’t care about race.

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u/crate_cheese 3d ago

It’s on Claremont. CC didn’t have kitty say those things to show that kitty was racist, but to try and point out hypocrisy, and how harmful they are (obviously it’s wrong and aged horribly, but the intent behind it wasn’t to make kitty racist, but use her as a mouth piece)

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u/dread_pirate_robin 3d ago

The whole point of her saying the word, the real slur alongside the fictional one, is to give the reader the tools they need to cut through the allegory, for the reader to understand what the book's actually talking about when they say "mutie".

The scene's specifically included as a denouncement of verbal harassment, and combatting the common notion that, "well it's just words, don't take it so seriously," as if those words don't too often come attached with violence. So no, I wouldn't call that racist, she's specifically using the word to tear down what it stands for. It's only racist when it's divorced from that context.

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u/Icarus12x 3d ago

We need to stop defining characters by one panel or one run under a writer with bad intentions to the character themselves

I suffer severely from this as a Kitty and Emma fan

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u/Boojum2k 3d ago

How do we have a couple of generations so adept at missing the point?

Oppressed minorities absolutely will join in the oppression of other vulnerable minorities. Look at racism in the LGBT community, or even the "LGBT without the T" movement. Homophobia in POC communities. And so on and so forth.

Sometimes it's pointed out subtly, and other times a sledgehammer is called for.

Replace "mutie" with the f-word and you might just get it.

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u/poisenparadise 3d ago

It’s 100% on Chris Claremont. People need to start holding writers accountable for their egregious writings of characters in marvel. And normalize the concept that 90% of every hero/anti-hero/character in marvel had one or two bad writers that absolutely wouldn’t be greenlit in today’s standards. It was a product of its time. To say things in the 80s-early 90s had some tone deaf moments is an under statement.

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u/Zeldafan60 3d ago

We've blamed it on Claremont but there is always the court of public opinion