Feminism and Diversity

and I'm taking you up on your invitation and jumping in but I'm no more qualified than anyone else in this thread.

I haven't seen the movie but I know enough people like Stockett and everything I read up on it only makes me hate it.

Do you guys remember Hogan's Heroes? I hated that as a kid. Later I hated it even more because only Hollywood would be offensive enough to make a comedy pretending it was FUN to be in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II.

This is what I know I'm going to hate about The Help. It romanticizes, and makes funny, a very cruel part of our history and current social fabric. Nothing's changed in places like Mississipi. Black women still slave away raising White women's children and doing all the chores.

I feel the same way about The Help as I did about Hogan's heroes and Gone With The Wind. At least Margaret Mitchell told the story through her eyes so I can't fault her for writing from her perspective. But for a White woman to write from the perspective of her Black maid, really? What the f* do you know about your Black maid? And to romanticize it as if White women overseeing this did all they could to help and domestic servitude and racial exploitation was all one big sisterhood. Omagod, that's simply too much.


I was already infuriated before I knew anything about the uglier aspects of the author and her book. Triple my disgust now.





This sums it up brilliantly. The whole rant is brilliant. I wish I could post the whole thing. Since we can't, read the rest at the link.









I changed my mind. I want to see this now in an angry way.

Keep those comments coming. This is good stuff.