Movie INJUSTICE...

Reliah wrote: I normally don't think about movies much...
I don't think the people who make them do, either, unless it's in regards to money.

I would say the same thing sort if I was part of a disscusion like this.

Allthough if I'm honest, I do think about films alot. I hear the voices of the charecters even when I'm away from the screen... just my echoing thoughts.

Movie injustice?! What about the film writers and actors that get all that hassle about being like a charecter in one of their own movies, based on people's own suspisions and predjudices like this...

What you've got to realise is that when people write a movie they do so out of they're own experience. Please just watch them and try to get an idea of the actual plot line and what it is trying to say. Alot of the time a modern movie is about when things are the other way round than you would find in a philosophy book...

My personal opinion is that movies and books are fiction. Even movies about the lives of famous people or how events happened often have bits of falsehood in them. They also usually are biased in favor of a certain viewpoint - which may or may not be easily recognizable.

So I do not understand why people take the stereotypes in movies and books 'to heart,' so to speak. Just because women are portrayed as weak and inferior in most movies, does that make all women that way?

I once heard stereotypes explained in a very interesting way:

Stereotyping is the human mind's way of categorizing and analyzing the world around it.

This at once makes something very obvious; we are biased by Nature itself.

Now, don't get me wrong, that isn't an excuse for acting on those stereotypes. Quite the contrary. I was merely pointing out that the way to stop stereotyping is to realize what we are doing and consciously change our ways.

I hope that makes sense. I'm rambling at this point.

MTFBWYA!

I have heard the same thing CrossingStar about stereotyping. And I do not believe we are born that way at all. Watch tiny children one day at play. They do not know better yet. I feel that it is something we “learn” over time. And for those of us which wish to follow the path of the Jedi… we should “unlearn” many things which we have learned.

But we must always recognize that the rest of the world is NOT going to so readily accept what we understand or even want to try to understand the way we do.

In the Hagakure it reads…

It is a fact that fish will not live where the water is too clear. But if there is duck weed or something, the fish will hide under its shadow and thrive. Thus, the lower classes will live in tranquility if certain matters are a bit overlooked or left unheard. This fact should be understood with regard to people’s behavior.

Of course this particular passage was in response to an economic matter, but there are many things in the Hagakure which reach far beyond their intended target.

This doesn’t really have anything to do with the thread; I just wanted to comment on something previously mentioned.

And a good thing to mention it was, Wescli! Thanks for sharing that bit of wisdom.

I understand that stereotypes are to some extent something learned, but then why are most people afraid of fire and water and snakes? That is what I meant. Those are instinctive preferences that seem to be hard wired into the human mind.

Well, maybe not the water, not as a baby. But anyway, that's more what I was trying to say. I realize that babies don't think, "Black person! Avoid!" (Which isn't my reaction, by the way )