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Lol I'm not taking it literally, I'm taking it analytically. It's entirely valid to dissect a metaphor and analyze what it means and why. An allegory is itself an argument - a way of using fictional elements to deliver non-fictional ideas. It's normal to argue for or against the allegory as being a useful delivery system for those ideas.

If it's not a good metaphor.. well, that's exactly what the rest of us are talking about when we critique the Rogue/Storm thing. You are the only one in the room that doesn't understand that we are all calling that a bad metaphor.

We know the forest is there, we just think there's a big stupid tree that is actually blocking our view.

Edit - and for the record, I'm not critiquing the entire forest! The rest of the metaphor is pretty good. But those examples really do undercut their own delivery of the idea.