Can you really use an
urban word creation improperly?
My girlfriend works at a university. After the election, they allowed the kiddies to skip class, exams and their part-time jobs, so that they could go to safe spaces on campus and participate in group cry-ins, or whatever they called them. She calls them "buttercups". I use "snowflakes" because they're flaky, delicate and melt oh so easily. I thought that was a good enough reason. :yesyes: Me, I didn't vote for the crook or the kook. And I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. But weak, fragile, whiny people (on both sides of the political spectrum) tend to get the stick from me.
As for these movies, yes, there are movies which tend to move people emotionally. They may even find some scenes in a movie, or the premise of a movie, to be offensive (I can't imagine many Black people would be fans of Birth of a Nation or Mandingo). As for actors or actresses having an issue with a scene, it's been well documented how Ned Beatty experienced emotional problems and went into therapy after filming the homosexual rape scene in Deliverance. And the fact that the popular culture made fun of that scene and had no sympathy for him or his character harmed him further. That's been going on for 40+ years. Yet I know of no effort by the limousine liberal elite in Hollywood to have Deliverance banned. If Beatty's character had been a woman, I'm sure that would be different. And we all know that is true. Apart from a stick of butter, what's the
real difference between Schneider's graphic scene in Last Tango and Beatty's graphic scene in Deliverance??? Had it been Schneider's character that abused Brando's character, would there be an effort by the feminazis to ban this film now? Nah, we know that it wouldn't. The Raquel Welch female on male dildo rape scene in Myra Breckinridge is actually celebrated by that set.
In high school, I asked our school librarian to get me a copy of Das Kapital and a copy of Mein Kampf - talk about opposite ends of the political spectrum. That prompted a visit from the school counselor asking me why I wanted to read these books. These were essentially banned books where I went to high school. My answer then was the same as my answer now: I have a curious mind. I like to see things for myself and see what all the fuss is about. I don't like it when people or groups decide for me what is socially acceptable or politically correct.
Being critical is one thing. But making attempts to ban books, films, etc., is something that I'm generally opposed to. There are lots of films and books that I don't like after seeing or reading them partially or completely. So if something similar comes up, I just avoid it. I can't see myself supporting a ban movement unless it was a snuff film, a film where children were actually abused or something like that. Both the left and the right have their fair share of thought police. It's just that Hollywood is controlled by the left these days... so they get the stick in this case.
