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Opinion: Most viewed: We are the X-Men

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#Weinergate may be captivating America, but so is ‘X-Men,’ specifically an Op-Ed by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch about how we’re all mutants now.

Though populated with superpowered ‘mutants’ such as Magneto (who is able to control all sorts of metallic objects), Storm (capable of flight and creating crazy weather), Banshee (an Irish American tenor who can kill with his voice) and Raven (a blue-skinned shape-shifter), ‘X-Men’ perfectly captures social reality and social aspirations in a post-gender, post-racial, post-mainstream, post-everything America. The multicolored, polyglot heroes and villains of the X-Men universe may be able to communicate by reading minds rather than using Skype, and they may be able to fly anywhere without booking tickets in advance, but make no mistake: That’s us up there on the screen.

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