My problem with the mutants in the Marvel Universe is that they only seem to make sense in the context of the X-Men books. When you look at the Universe as a whole, I really don't think the everyday Joe could tell the difference between people with super powers and people with mutant powers. I guess some people hate both, but the majority seem to be able to understand enough about the situation to focus their hate towards mutants. That just doesn't seem very believable.

only reason i dont like mutants is because i think they're cheaters when it comes to getting their powers. uh-oh puberty BAM i can control the weather, uh oh voice is changing BOOM lasers shooting out of my eyes. no spiders, no surviving a gamma bomb, no shrapnel in the chest, they just get them. otherwise i couldnt care less about them, as a minority

Yes and they are acceptable target sfor every hidden feelings of hate and discriminations
 
lets rant on how bad  mutants are
-Put them in weapon x internship camps
-Kill all muties with sentinels
-Drown their babies
-Lets cleanse humanity of mutantkind
 
Magneto was right since normal humans on  the MU are assholes and ungrateful bastards. Like how FF saved the damn earth from Galactus and since stamford blew up people got into a state pf PMS and hated the good guys.

I think it has become outmoded, but for different reasons. A big part of the hate and fear of mutants was the fact that any person could potentially be a mutant. They were in humanity's midst. Their children could turn into monsters any day. Joe Schmoe's daughter could bring some mutie she met at the club home for dinner. This is no longer the case, and I would think the vast majority of people on Marvel Earth would know that. The mutants are down to ~200, and the vast majority of them are on the same island, completely isolated from everyone else. They aren't really a threat anymore. Especially after the events of Civil War, and the implementation of the 50 State Initiative. You'd think people would feel pretty safe from the mutant threat right now. This is one thing that has bothered me about all the anti-mutant people Bastion brought back from the dead. No one questioned their reappearance, or their ridiculous demands to finish the mutant race off. People just kind of fell back into place, even though there have been massive changes to the world they live in since Cameron Hodge or Bolivar Trask were last seen alive.

" @Korg: yeah exactly. Granted I doubt they really have much free will in the matter. :P "

"Drown their babies"

The X-Men should have their own universe separate from the Marvel U. It would make more sense. Wolverine could be in both universes. lol