Last Topic: 9:46:52pm, 04/19/2020
Last Post: 9:31:17pm, 07/28/2018
I don't think I've acted in a directly racist or sexist manner. I think some of my opinions could've been construed that way though.
One example which stands out in my mind is my response to Peter Jackson's 2005 remake of King Kong. I complained that they changed the three lead characters: Ann Darrow, Carl Denham, and Jack Driscoll. Carl went from an ambitious man to a parasitic capitalist and Jack went from a rugged sailor to an intimated intellectual. Those complaints are fair or so I still feel. But Ann went from a damsel in distress to a strong female protagonist. Now, I wasn't thinking about the seven decades of social change which had taken place between the original and the remake. I wasn't thinking about how Ann Darrow, being the sole female character, became the movie's default representation of women. I was mad because they changed my story. (And damn them for it!)
I feel like I could take up a career in screenwriting and that a criticism from my teens or early 20s could come back to haunt me. "Of course he'd be mad the sequel made Karen more of a rebel. He feels women should all be dependent love interests." [posts snapshot of something I said in 2006]