Crossing Over With Paige Guthrie

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[regulus13.insanejournal.com]

And I say to you as a Southerner, we are not dumb hicks.

[filbypott.insanejournal.com]

I never said you were. What I'm saying is that it's an unfortunate stereotype in a lot of media, and it's refreshing to see it averted.

[angelophile.insanejournal.com]

That was a deliberate move on the part of Scott Lobdell when he was setting up the book. He deliberately set about to play with stereotypes - while a lot of new X-men characters tended to follow certain stereotypes (for example, the New Mutants), he wanted to create a team that messed around with that, so the "hick" Southerner was the class intellectual, the Latino gang member the nice guy, the cultured Brit taciturn and so on.

[regulus13.insanejournal.com]

Heh, that's awesome.

[regulus13.insanejournal.com]

Ah, my bad. Excuse my reaction, but like you said, unfortunate stereotype and all that. :þ

[ceru.insanejournal.com]

Sadly, it's a totally understandable reaction.

[regulus13.insanejournal.com]

I appreciate your sympathy. It's nice to see there are people out there who don't shut off their brains when they think about us. Ah, well, life goes on.

[filbypott.insanejournal.com]

Nah, that's okay. I could have phrased it better.

I mean, I know Southerners and Christians (but oddly no Southern Christians) and none of them fall into those stereotypes. Plus stereotypes in general are something I hate.

[regulus13.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, I know how you feel. It's annoying how some stereotypes fill people with righteous indignation, while others are excused because their targets don't share the same ideology as said people.

Anyway, I appreciate you being so cool about all this. This was (is?) why I loved S_D: people could be reasonable...on the internet! LJ, how could yoooouuuuuuuuu! D: