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When in ten years, the icky human version of Tramp shows up around the house, their hormones will be racing, and no one will understand why. Films like this program woman to adore jerks.
Ah, the age old fallacy of correlation vs. causality.
Starting in the 80's, there were a number of movies that had nice popular people hooking up with the socially challenged. Sixteen Candles. Weird Science. Revenge of the Nerds. However, I'm sure most of us that grew up in the 80s and the years following can attest to the fact that girls, as a general rule, still don't go for nerds.
Nobody becomes Gay because they watched "Will and Grace" or "Torch Song Trilogy." People who ARE Gay might be less ashamed, and people who AREN'T Gay might be less inclined to be incited against people who are, and that's about the most you're going to get out of it.
The fact is that Hollywood makes movies that glamourise everything. But it's not doing this to push some radical leftist agenda, as it's commonly accused of... it's doing it because that's how you make money. Yes, some movies tackle issues. Yes, some movies tend to "normalise" things that other people are trying to suppress. But most movies-- particularly most movies you can actually find in the cinema-- are filmed for the most Republican of reasons: cold, hard cash.
People go to these movies because they want to be entertained. If you were to make a movie now about some white guy who "happened to be" a member of the KKK-- even if it wasn't really part of the movie and you only knew it because you glimpsed his Klan robes in the closet-- nobody would go see it. Why? Because nobody worth speaking of still finds that sort of behaviour acceptable. Hollywood is a mirror more than anything else.
A couple years ago, DC Comics revealed that one of its catalog of characters-- I can't recall whom, but it was a cowboy in the old west-- was Gay. They did a new limited series on this character, in which the fact that he liked boys came up a couple of times. Other than that, it was a cowboy story. Interestingly enough, they managed to tick off both sides of the argument... the anti-Gay movement was mad that this comic (which was labeled as for adults only) had the timerity to portray a COWBOY as a HOMO. The pro-Gay movement was kind of irritated that the comic, which contained no adult subject matter tougher than "Oh, yeah, he's gay", was labeled as "Adults Only", which it needn't be. Recently, DC announced that the new Batgirl was going to be a lesbian. There were people protesting this before the first comic hit the stands, giving DC free publicity. They were smart to milk it as innovational despite the fact they have had a Lesbian as a running character in Superman for years, and rival Marvel comics has had gay characters for even longer.
This is where you hear about the "liberal Hollywood elite" and the "San Francisco Values." Basically, people are getting up in arms because every movie, book, TV show, magazine, and comic doesn't reflect their exact values.
It's the same mindset that says that Harry Potter should be banned because it promotes Wicca.
Wicca. Now, speaking as a Wiccan, you can rest assured that if we did build a school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, it wouldn't have a Christmas break. Not that we're against Christmas being celebrated by other people, it's just that... well, you generally don't see Catholic School kids jumping over a Beltaine fire, do you? And this school would actually have classes about, you know,
Wicca. Six years of this school and nobody's even discussed the casting of a circle.
I always found it amusing that nobody protested "End of Days." Not only did it pee all over Revelations after drinking a keg of cheap beer, but... well, it was an absolute abortion.
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02 Dec 2006, 1:31 am
