{"id":732,"date":"2006-10-31T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=732"},"modified":"2006-11-21T07:34:06","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T12:34:06","slug":"caring-for-your-mutant-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"Caring for your mutant child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/06\/1006\/103006.html\">Lileks nails<\/a> my #1 gripe with X-Men:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">[&#8230;] never really loved the franchise, to use that horrid word. The entire mutant-as-a-metaphor was insulting, anyway \u00e2\u20ac&quot;if you know anything about kids you know that a teen with the ability to shoot fire out of his ears would not be shunned as a weirdo freak but elected class president on general principle: dude! Awesome! I can understand parents getting upset if their kid was blue and covered with hairy nodules, but the idea that parents would consider their kid &#8220;sick&#8221; if she had the telekinetic ability to raise every car in the neighborhood nine feet in the air \u00e2\u20ac&quot; please. We have parents who will go across the ocean to adopt a Down&#39;s Syndrome baby; are we to believe that the majority of American parents reject their kids because they can levitate or cough up gold by the quart or exude perfectly formed Neapolitan Ice Cream bricks from their hindquarters? Far from persecuting them, they&#39;d get their own reality shows. Storm would be a TV meteorologist in New York. As for your morning commute, I&#39;ll see what I can do. Stay classy, Manhattan.<\/div>\n<p>The second movie made me nuts.  In a movie with people who can turn into metal and control the weather, the most unrealistic part was when Bobby went home.  His parents did not act like real people. They way they rejected him way very un-parent like.  <\/p>\n<p>It is in the nature of parent to claim that nothing is wrong with their kid, <em>even when there obviously is<\/em>. Once in a while you&#8217;ll see one of these stories about some sicko serial killer \/ mass murderer who gets caught killing \/ raping \/ eating young women, and their parent(s) will end up on the news saying they still love their kid and believe he&#8217;s a &#8220;good person&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>In the real world you&#8217;d see bumper stickers:<\/p>\n<p><center><tt>Proud parent of a mutant honor student<\/tt><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lileks nails my #1 gripe with X-Men: [&#8230;] never really loved the franchise, to use that horrid word. The entire mutant-as-a-metaphor was insulting, anyway \u00e2\u20ac&quot;if you know anything about kids you know that a teen with the ability to shoot fire out of his ears would not be shunned as a weirdo freak but elected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}