RE: The United States of inclusivity
December 7, 2020 at 10:26 am
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2020 at 10:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
No need to scare up swastikas or confederate flags. There are plenty of culturally german and culturally southern things that aren't those things - but are still unaccepted or stereotyped or negatively appraised by some other culture to which germans or southern people are seeking entry.
A specific example may be more or less egregious between cultures, but the underlying behavior is phenomenally equivalent. Maybe some women wear a scarf on their head for the same reasons that another wears a scarf on her crotch. Maybe they feel naked without it, maybe they think it's pretty. Maybe they just wake up everyday and put one on. Maybe they're too cold without it, or too hot without it.
Maybe it's not a statement on whether or not beating women is okay...not in life, and not in film.
Inclusivity means that we accept people, even the ones that wear scarves - not that we accept the idea of beating women - and it's absurd to suggest that it would. That's not a rational appraisal of the field, it's a product of a nutball overton shift - of trying to find the Middle Ground™ between the right leaning left and stratospheric rights views in the culture war.
IMO...the difference between a trash bag and a headdress is what you fill it with.
A specific example may be more or less egregious between cultures, but the underlying behavior is phenomenally equivalent. Maybe some women wear a scarf on their head for the same reasons that another wears a scarf on her crotch. Maybe they feel naked without it, maybe they think it's pretty. Maybe they just wake up everyday and put one on. Maybe they're too cold without it, or too hot without it.
Maybe it's not a statement on whether or not beating women is okay...not in life, and not in film.
Inclusivity means that we accept people, even the ones that wear scarves - not that we accept the idea of beating women - and it's absurd to suggest that it would. That's not a rational appraisal of the field, it's a product of a nutball overton shift - of trying to find the Middle Ground™ between the right leaning left and stratospheric rights views in the culture war.
IMO...the difference between a trash bag and a headdress is what you fill it with.
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