Electric Lib

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... NOT

Oh, my title is so cleverly infused with both a Christmas classic and what would be, if I said it outloud, a reference to Borat (the scene where he tries to learn "not" jokes). Anyhoo, thanks a lot global warming for ruining Christmas! I suppose that in thanking global warming I should also thank myself for driving, heating my home, buying products from companies that are probably destroying the earth and being part of a country that elects a president so stupid that he won't even recognize that it's a problem. Oh, if we had only elected Gore. Maybe the "Inconvenient Truth" wouldn't have been a movie, but it may have been on our list of concerns. Thanks a lot United States. Geez.

Anyways, in keeping with the debbie downer and Christmas theme, I'd like to mention a stupidly offensive movie title I saw recently. I will preface by saying that my final paper in sociology this semester focused extensively on the use of language as a tool to normalize racism, sexism and various other forms of discrimination in our country. However, I've heard that people are apparently beginning to recognize that words like "Black Market" and similar expressions are offensive. So, I was shocked when I saw a stupid Christmas horror movie titled "Black Christmas." Although I'm sure the movie producers didn't "do it on purpose," there's really no excuse. The fact is that they used the word "black" as a synonym for "evil." Whereas it immediatly makes you think of the antithesis "white Christmas" which, although it relates to snow, is supposed to be the Christmas that everyone hopes and wishes for. So basically they're continuing the tradition of using language as a mechanism to normalize racism. But I'm sure it won't have a huge effect, I don't think Americans really like watching gory horror movies, especially ones that star attractive young women, such as this one......................................... NOT! Posted by lib at December 17, 2006 12:37 PM