I have no issue with it at all. I think its a terrible mistake to "disappear" aspects of history that don't conform to our civil standards today. the n-word exists whether or not we acknowledge it.
I think children are perfectly placed to have a conversation about that, led sensitively and honestly by an adult, that will frame the way they respond to the word in a healthier way. It's true of everybody, but especially of children, that if you make something taboo, they only feel more drawn to it.
I had headaches *every day* of the first fifteen years of my life from my mother's Newports. Cigarettes keep me out of a lot of places I would like to go.
Don't expect me to be "objective" about the goddamn things.
This article has me curious: What do you think of the conversation about Twain's books?
I have no issue with it at all. I think its a terrible mistake to "disappear" aspects of history that don't conform to our civil standards today. the n-word exists whether or not we acknowledge it.
I think children are perfectly placed to have a conversation about that, led sensitively and honestly by an adult, that will frame the way they respond to the word in a healthier way. It's true of everybody, but especially of children, that if you make something taboo, they only feel more drawn to it.
Based on your article, I thought that this might be your answer. I agree. Thank you for taking the time to respond.
I see people getting outraged at old sitcoms showing women as happy homemakers.
Imagine how they'd react to Amos and Andy.
In Vertigo Jimmy Stewart asks Kim Novak to dye her hair blond. "It can't matter to you." Audience laughs.
Those were other times. They really happened.
OTOH please do airbrush out cigarettes,
Humphrey Bogart died of lung cancer. He was 56.
I had headaches *every day* of the first fifteen years of my life from my mother's Newports. Cigarettes keep me out of a lot of places I would like to go.
Don't expect me to be "objective" about the goddamn things.
Where do cigarettes keep you out? Just curious. I encounter a smoker maybe once a year (say, smoking outside a building), but I'm not a bar patron.