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wavyarmsRe: stress - thank you, Eddie Izzard!
In other news, Cranky Curmudgie McCrankpants today read this article about the Facebook movie and whether it's sexist on Slate, and had no problems with it really (haven't seen the movie) with one glaring exception, where the writer says, "The writer Rebecca Davis O'Brien found Christy to be an Asian-American stereotype, a reading that never occurred to me while watching: Neither the opportunistic seduction of powerful men nor the melodramatic burning of silk scarves seem like ethnically specific behaviors."
Now, I don't have an opinion on whether either of the examples mentioned is stereotypical or not, because I am not well-versed in how Asians are stereotyped in popular culture, but how obnoxious is it to dismiss someone's claim with "Well, that never occurred to me." Because clearly, whether or not things OCCUR to you is directly related to whether or not they are true! FAIL. There are quite a lot of things that it never OCCURRED to me are insulting or prejudiced, but once it was explained to me, and I listened, then I learned that they were! Amazing.
In other news, Cranky Curmudgie McCrankpants today read this article about the Facebook movie and whether it's sexist on Slate, and had no problems with it really (haven't seen the movie) with one glaring exception, where the writer says, "The writer Rebecca Davis O'Brien found Christy to be an Asian-American stereotype, a reading that never occurred to me while watching: Neither the opportunistic seduction of powerful men nor the melodramatic burning of silk scarves seem like ethnically specific behaviors."
Now, I don't have an opinion on whether either of the examples mentioned is stereotypical or not, because I am not well-versed in how Asians are stereotyped in popular culture, but how obnoxious is it to dismiss someone's claim with "Well, that never occurred to me." Because clearly, whether or not things OCCUR to you is directly related to whether or not they are true! FAIL. There are quite a lot of things that it never OCCURRED to me are insulting or prejudiced, but once it was explained to me, and I listened, then I learned that they were! Amazing.
