Insomnia and thinking.

[xp_tarot]

I 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.

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[x-rogue.livejournal.com]

I dunno... I think some of us who look normal are scary in our undies. Not naming any names, of course...

*grins*

Still, I think this might be interesting to discuss in that class we're having about discrimination. Maybe a test-run would be interesting, you know, like market research, just to see how people react.

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

That is also what I was thinking.

It would be hard to hate mutants as much if Warren were on a billboard in some underwear.

Or even in regular commericals. Not commericals for being nice to mutants, but commericals for Coca Cola or ice cream or pants or something that everyone uses. We should have exposure.

... The online dictionary tells me that exposure also means to be unclothed. Which is not what I meant, but makes the word more right because I was talking about underwear...

[x-havok.livejournal.com]

or a sports star. People look up to sports stars (Like Tigar Woods and the Venus sisters) and they wouldn't even care if they were a mutant, especially if thier mutation gives them no advantage in thier sport.

Underwear models tend to scare me...

[x-celsis.livejournal.com]

Underwear models can make others feel inferior, though, Marie-Ange. Or so I've noticed. Still, I'd be willing to hold auditions, in the name of better mutant relations...

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

It was just a thought. It does not have to be an underwear model, that is just the first idea I had.

I think it is MTV's fault.

I think anything can make others feel inferior, if it is not done right.

It is really important to remind people that mutants are doing the same things they are, even if some people with mutant powers do not look like everyone else. Maybe not an underwear model but maybe someone in an ad for somethind else. Cars or food or Oreo cookies.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

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.

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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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I .. did not know that. The underwear was kind of a joke. The rest was not, really.

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.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

I didn't think that you knew about her, but I wanted to let you know.

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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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I did not think about that either. This needs to be thought out more, I think definitly.

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?

...

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.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

If you would like, Marie-Ange... you can come and talk to me. Ask questions about what it was like when I told people and how things went afterwards.

I'll try to answer your questions as best as I can.

[x-bamf.livejournal.com]

It would appear, if you look at my roommate's user icons, he is vying for the role of underwear model.

On a serious note, from what I've learned in the few weeks I've been here, mutants need legal protection and rights before they can (or should) risk themselves to the public.

[x-cannonball.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[x-cannonball.livejournal.com]

:p

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[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

I'll be ok. I think I better get used to the idea that this isn't going to go away soon...

*sigh*

[x-cannonball.livejournal.com]

I'll be there in a minute, Al.

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean to upset you.

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..

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

It would appear, if you look at my roommate's user icons, he is vying for the role of underwear model.

If only you knew, Kurt. If only you knew.

[x-cannonball.livejournal.com]

It ain't my fault you showed up when I was in my boxers, missy!

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

It's all right, Marie-Ange. Really.

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.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

And very cute boxers they were, too.

*nods solemnly*

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

'k.

*appreciates*

[x-cannonball.livejournal.com]

:P to you too, then. *snickers*

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[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

*lol*

Gotcha!

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[x-bamf.livejournal.com]

I would argue that no, they don't. While mutants, in theory, have the same rights, in practice, discrimination is rampant. Look at Allison, here practically in hiding. If we really had equal rights, would I need an image inducer?