Say what? First, she was being pretty witty about it.
that's debatable. Kitty has been thoroughly annoying for all three issues so far, and generally comes across as being a self-important, sanctimonious twit who thinks she's much wittier than she actually is.
Second, she's totally in the right to see something wrong with Emma Frost teaching ethics to children!
like hell she is. Kitty has been consistently way out of line with regard to her behavior towards Emma, and is way off base with regard to the ethics class issue.
ethics as an academic subject is not about teaching a certain ethical code or saying "this is right, and this is wrong." it's about exploring different value sets and proposed moral principles, and examining the strengths and weaknesses of each perspective. it's about developing sophisticated, critical thinking about ethics, not about imparting some sort of moral code.
Emma clearly has a well-defined perspective on ethics and is clearly the type of person who has put a lot of thought into these questions. she clearly understands how different ethical paths function, has a highly critical and unsentimental intellect, and is incredibly articulate. whatever she's doing, she knows why she's doing it and why she believes it's ethical, and has demonstrated that she's willing and able to debate and defend those choices, while also being able to rethink and reevaluating her own past decisions.
you may not agree with the choices she's made and the conclusions that she's come to as a result of those inquiries, but her own personal beliefs and decisions are entirely irrelevant to her qualifications as a teacher of ethics. teaching ethics is about the process, not the results.
Kitty basically mouthed off about something she doesn't appear to understand in the slightest, in a sort of self-congratulatory way that made her look like a "fucking retard," as Wing so aptly put it.
things like the Wing conversation point towards Whedon intentionally using Kitty as an example of a kind of simplistic, naive, self-righteous moralism which is no longer appropriate to the X-Men's mission, and that her character arc is going to track her progress from a teenager with a chip on her shoulder to a mature young woman with a better grasp of the complexities of good and evil and such. he's writing her as an annoyingly stupid bitch right now so that she can grow into maturity later. |
