Response of “Mutant rights”

Zhu Mengna(Mona)

Dr.Marquardt

ENG1430 W10

March 20, 2015

Response of “Mutant rights”

In this podcast short, it mentioned an interesting and controversial topic: mutant rights. Recently, superhero movies become a wave of all-pervasive and accordingly many super hero toys and dolls appear in shops. However, at a book of tariff classifications "Dolls," which represent human beings, are taxed at almost twice the rate of "toys," which represent something not human - such as robots, monsters, or demons. Just because of this inaccurate definition, it may lead to a big difference for toy manufacturers. Sherry Singer and Indie Sang are two international trade lawyers and they found this legal loophole. They wanted to help their clients, Marvel Comics, who was importing its action figures as dolls. Hence they took the X-MEN for instance and tried to persuade  US government that these mutants are NOT human. They compared mutant to human by judging their physiological features. To my perspective, it is ridiculous to argue these artificial figures whether are humans or not. Everyone has his or her own definition about human and own views of world. To investigates the reason, profit and money maybe are “perpetrators” for this farce.