Okay, Let's Just Take a Moment Here
It's just a movie.
Please stop using this phrase to dismiss my or other people's opinions. My opinions are based on what I perceived as an insult, something that bothered me and moved me to cry out against it. "It" being the film, fanfic or random asstwat comment of the week.
"It" isn't "just a movie", "just a book", "just a comic", "just the internet".
Don't tell me it's "just" so you don't have to face the question of whether it poses a phobic or unjust or skewered portrayal of a subject.
Books, movies, paintings, etc, they are the vectors through which we spit out the vision of the world we have assimilated. They are a reflection of thought movements and social currents.
Seneca's writing revealed a lot about the violent and merciless times he lived in. We and our writing are no different in their revelations. The sudden sprouting of economical crisis-related books, movies and the way it alters the way we talk might not strike you visibly, but it is there. Just as after the 2001 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, there was a profusion of terrorist themed episodes in American TV series.
Please stop dismissing my opinion. When you go, "oh, it's just a book", you forget that while I'm speaking out about the sexist way the book treated woman, I'm hinting that if in fiction women are still getting smeared then imagine what's happening in the "real world".
How we see things affects how we write them, and how we read something affects how we see things; and in that reciprocal circle, when we denounce what is wrong in the reflection of our world, we also denounce what is wrong in society.
I get that you disagree with the statement made. Or that you might think I'm making a lot of fuss about nothing. But saying "just" makes your argument about as valid and useful as a fly in a pot of honey trying to save a can of beans.
Please stop using this phrase to dismiss my or other people's opinions. My opinions are based on what I perceived as an insult, something that bothered me and moved me to cry out against it. "It" being the film, fanfic or random asstwat comment of the week.
"It" isn't "just a movie", "just a book", "just a comic", "just the internet".
Don't tell me it's "just" so you don't have to face the question of whether it poses a phobic or unjust or skewered portrayal of a subject.
Books, movies, paintings, etc, they are the vectors through which we spit out the vision of the world we have assimilated. They are a reflection of thought movements and social currents.
Seneca's writing revealed a lot about the violent and merciless times he lived in. We and our writing are no different in their revelations. The sudden sprouting of economical crisis-related books, movies and the way it alters the way we talk might not strike you visibly, but it is there. Just as after the 2001 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, there was a profusion of terrorist themed episodes in American TV series.
Please stop dismissing my opinion. When you go, "oh, it's just a book", you forget that while I'm speaking out about the sexist way the book treated woman, I'm hinting that if in fiction women are still getting smeared then imagine what's happening in the "real world".
How we see things affects how we write them, and how we read something affects how we see things; and in that reciprocal circle, when we denounce what is wrong in the reflection of our world, we also denounce what is wrong in society.
I get that you disagree with the statement made. Or that you might think I'm making a lot of fuss about nothing. But saying "just" makes your argument about as valid and useful as a fly in a pot of honey trying to save a can of beans.