Is every movie sexist/racist?

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mybogo100

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Does it ever get anybody down when you try and discuss movies on the internet? I've been reading the RAB movie forum and it is quite mature compared to most places, but there are some boarRAB where you just want to tear your hair out.

It seems like you can't discuss any film without someone coming along to shout from the rooftops about how racist or sexist the movie is, especially older movies (people are often too ignorant, apparently, to take it into consideration that they were made in a totally different world when it comes to anything released pre-2000).

Even the most innocently meant films are taken and branded as racist, sexist or in some way perverted or just generally wrong.

Why are so many people like this on line? Are they just wind up merchants, do they really feel that way? When did become become so jaded toward films? I never encounter such talk off line.
 
we live in a complex world that has developed over millennia. part of that history has involved changes roles for women, which wary widely around the world.

the idea of virtually identical roles for men and women is novel to our society - women only got the vote less than a hundred years ago.

films do not appear without a social context, so if that context is not exactly how a person sensitve to gender issues believes it should be, they get the hump.

as for racism - groups compete for resources, which is natural. often those groups have racial identity, but often the groups have 'nationality' as well. the equality of mankind, both friend and foe alike is again an issue, because at any one time, one group, whether orgainsed on national, racial or other lines will be doing better than some other. if you are not in the dominent group, then you can say that the allocation of resources is 'racist'.

I'm sure that the Neanderthals and the Ancient Egyptians and Assyrians all had the same complaints in their day. it's more about being out of the most dominent faction than true 'race'.
Moses was a Jew, yet he rose through the ranks of the Egyptians. Joseph also rose within an alien power.
the Romans had successful people from all the nations of their Empire. when you complained about "Romans" you were complaining of the inhabitants of the Roman Empire, not just people born in Rome.
it's the same elsewhere.

some people don't like people that they consider different to themselves - which is easier if there a physical or cultural things to identify with that difference. to some degree it is human nature, but a lot can be done to equalise opportunity, which after all is what most people want.
 
IMDB message boarRAB are just complete crap for talking about anything on film, full of completely horrible morons.

As for the racist/sexist thing, other film forums I'm on don't really seem to bring up such subjects in a negative way.
 
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