A few thoughts...
To start, some of you may be wondering what the heck an Iceman fan is doing here. 'Did he get lost, the poor thing?'
Lets see: Back in the 90's(oh, how I miss the comics of that era, faults and all) Iceman, Gambit and Wolverine were my top-three favorites(with Remy and Logan regularly duking it out for 2nd place). My interest in Gambit sadly waned over the years due almost entirely to his near-constant mishandling by Marvel. I reconnected with my Gambit interest after Neko joined up with my forum and decided to come check out her place.
'Wait, you have your own forum, wtf are you doing here, man? You a narc? NARC! ' Uhh, my forum is largely inactive at the moment. I have had some new members join in recent months but their only interest seemed to be in what I was posting about Iceman(specifically the somewhat-secret history of how a fan-theory from the 70's about Iceman being an analogue to the Phoenix called 'the Dragon' made it's way surreptitiously into the cannon of the comics along with my advanced theories about what the consequences have been and will be for both the character and the larger Marvel Universe.) They basically made a few posts and PM's along the lines of 'I am interested in reading more' without contributing anything more to the forum. Considering I had protracted conversations with one of them at CBR before they joined ABP it was pretty frustrating. I've also been battling some problems with carpal tunnel syndrome off-and-on for months, affecting my dominate hand/arm and haven't really felt like posting on anything more than a sporadic basis, much less working intensely on something that seemed to be the only draw for certain members.
On 'wokeness'. Don't get me started. They've gone beyond woke. I started using the word 'sanitizing' to describe what they are doing to our society and everything in it they view as in any way 'problematic'. I noted someone in the thread used the term to describe what has been done to Gambit and it's appropriate. I saw a news story the other day about a major university that is trying to rename everything on it's campus that is in any way derived from whiteness, maleness, straightness and cis-genderedness. We are rapidly going from having to use the right pronouns to not being allowed pronouns or gendered terms at all. I have no idea where this is headed except we will probably all eventually be wearing burqas and making pleasing hums at each other to avoid anyone seeing or hearing something that might offend them.
I'm not reading the current X-Books at all except for X-Men Legends. Most of the current stuff feels like either an alternate timeline/universe(some of you know my theories) trying to pass itself off as the real thing or bad fanfic, or some combination of both.