A short brain dump on tumblr, Happy Feet, racism and stuff
Gah. Just lost a post. Great. LJ - this is why I quit you over 3 years ago!
No, not really, blogging just wasn't working out for me, regardless on my feelings about LJ as a platform. I experienced a renewed desire to chronicle my life/experiences etc last year and played around with blogger / blogspot before settling on tumblr. Which I still hardly ( Read more... )
No, not really, blogging just wasn't working out for me, regardless on my feelings about LJ as a platform. I experienced a renewed desire to chronicle my life/experiences etc last year and played around with blogger / blogspot before settling on tumblr. Which I still hardly ( Read more... )
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I've often thought this about Hollywood movies, in that the standard middle American accent represents the heroes/good guys and any other accent (including Oxford English) usually is associated with the bad guys, or in this case, people to not take seriously. OTOH, in my pre-aware state (thanks mawaridi et al for educating me), I would have innocently found all
those side-kicks funny. Comedy has historically been full of caricature accents (eg. Pink Panther). Now it requires a little more awareness and
intelligence to make inoffensive comedy.
Coincidentally, another friend you may not know has had similar issues with Star Wars episode 1/2, which I also seem to recall was full of ethnic stereotypes when it was totally unnecessary, being non-Earth races.
I haven't seen Happy Feet, but now I have even less reason to.
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