Insomnia and thinking.
Jun. 4th, 2003 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xp_tarotI cannot sleep, so I was watching the television and thinking.
What I think, is that mutants need a spokesperson who can represent them, who is attractive to the public. Someone in a place where everyone would see them and know what they look like and that they are a mutant.
But not in a way yet, that makes people think that they are being taught a lesson. No one likes those commericals that tell us drugs are bad, because it is like being told something we already know.
So maybe a musician or a actor. But then I thought that people are fickle and if the music or the show is not something people like that the chance to have a mutant in a place where everyone can see them and get used to mutants would not happen.
And I was watching MTV and got a very good idea. We need a mutant underwear model. Maybe two or three.
Maybe it would not make everyone get used to mutants, but it might make people think that mutants are not scary, even if they look different and people might get used to us if they see one of us in underwear on a big billboard.
It is not easy to be scared of someone in their underwear. Underwear makes you not scary! It does. It is very hard to be afraid of someone if they are mostly naked in a pair of briefs, more so if they are smiling and acting like they are happy to be in just their underwear.
What I think, is that mutants need a spokesperson who can represent them, who is attractive to the public. Someone in a place where everyone would see them and know what they look like and that they are a mutant.
But not in a way yet, that makes people think that they are being taught a lesson. No one likes those commericals that tell us drugs are bad, because it is like being told something we already know.
So maybe a musician or a actor. But then I thought that people are fickle and if the music or the show is not something people like that the chance to have a mutant in a place where everyone can see them and get used to mutants would not happen.
And I was watching MTV and got a very good idea. We need a mutant underwear model. Maybe two or three.
Maybe it would not make everyone get used to mutants, but it might make people think that mutants are not scary, even if they look different and people might get used to us if they see one of us in underwear on a big billboard.
It is not easy to be scared of someone in their underwear. Underwear makes you not scary! It does. It is very hard to be afraid of someone if they are mostly naked in a pair of briefs, more so if they are smiling and acting like they are happy to be in just their underwear.
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Date: 2003-06-04 09:53 am (UTC)Not touching the underwear issue for now...
Marie-Ange - it's been done. By someone here at this school. Alison Blaire, a successful mucisian, "came out" to her public as a mutant.
It did not go well.
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Date: 2003-06-04 10:01 am (UTC)I am sorry, it sounded like a good idea to give mutants exposure without doing commericals saying "Be nice to mutants!"
I think I have to think about this more. I don't know enough about advertising to know what would work and what would not.
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Date: 2003-06-04 10:13 am (UTC)Mutants are mutants, no matter how they look. And the public needs to accept them as they are. Not just the pretty ones.
I know it'd be easier for the rest of the world to accept the "pretty" ones, but then we're dividing lines between mutants themselves. And that's not a good thing to start. Others are doing it already, and I don't like their methods.
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Date: 2003-06-04 10:22 am (UTC)People don't accept regular non-mutant people who aren't pretty all the time either. I don't know how to fix that.
But maybe underwear modelling is a bad idea because it would make it worse, yes?
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I still think that something on television or on a billboard with a visible mutant would help the public accept them, even if they have mutations that make them look different. I just do not know what it would be, because I have not had a lot of time to think about it.
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Date: 2003-06-04 10:23 am (UTC)I'll try to answer your questions as best as I can.
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Date: 2003-06-04 02:10 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-06-04 02:38 pm (UTC)*sigh*
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Date: 2003-06-04 02:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-04 02:53 pm (UTC)*appreciates*
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Date: 2003-06-04 02:44 pm (UTC)I should have known better, and I hadn't paid attention to other people's journals where they mentioned that you were a musician with concerts and albums.
I'm sorry..
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Date: 2003-06-04 02:49 pm (UTC)If nothing else, maybe I can help clear things up for others as a result of what happened - such as answering your questions. It would make me feel better if at least something good came out of it. I meant what I said earlier. If you'd like to ask questions, I'll answer as best as I can.