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From: lizv@tektools.UUCP (Liz Vaughan)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: Kitty
Message-ID: <343@tektools.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 16:04:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 16:04:39 1985
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Reply-To: lizv@tektools.UUCP (Liz Vaughan)
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In article <881@oddjob.UUCP> london@oddjob.UUCP (David London) writes:
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>With all this talk about whether the old Kitty was better than the new, and
>vice-versa, I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned my pet peeve. 
>She's only 16 (or so). Why does ANYBODY (esp. Wolverine) want to take orders
>from her??? I think at one point, Wolverine mentions that she'd make a good
>leader. Baloney!!! She's just a kid!! (I don't care about the genius
>business - 16 is 16). I'm surprised that anyone in the X-Men (most of whom
>are at least 10 years older) would pay any attention to her suggestions or
>orders. Ditto for the New Mutants. In the last couple issues, we see Dazzler
>taking orders from one (or more) of those guys. Why would she pay any
>attention to battle plans from a teeny-bopper???

HOLD IT!  Kitty may be 16, but she's a pretty old and experienced 16; not just
being a genius, but tooling around the galaxy, risking your life daily, that
sort of thing.  Also, leadership potential is just that -- potential.  Good
leaders are usually good leaders when they're 6, much less 16.  Being able to
assess a situation quickly and make fast, sound decisions that people will
abide by has very little to do with age.  Not everyone is totally ditzo just
because they're 16.

(no, I'm not 16;  I just don't think you're looking at Kitty as a character
instead of a number)

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