Women in X-Men

I didn’t particularly like the X-Men comics very much because I just find them so un-amusingly corny. The corniest definitely manifests itself the most in the first issue of the X-Men in the 1960’s. I guess it’s a little warrant because it is the first issue; it seeks to map out what will be the gist of the series, which makes this issue sort of superficial but I guess one has to start somewhere. Another thing that was specifically corny was the way the male X-Men treated Jean Grey. Nearly every comment about her not made by Professor X was filled with weird quintessential overt infatuation. I’m not sure maybe this is a commentary on the time, but I think it’s just kind of stupid and irrelevant and it makes me question why there was nothing else interesting enough to say or reveal about Jean other than the fact that she’s a woman. I only noticed in that first comic but there are many references to things that exist in our world. The first one right of the bat was setting the location in Westchester, but then the comic goes on to reference several brand names such as “Christian Dior”, “Rolls Royce”, and then not a brand name but still recognizable, “the Harlem Globetrotters.” The question I have is not why Stan Lee decided to include those real life references, but why?