What a distressing story. This whole post is one of the many reasons I really cringe when people say things like "it's just a story/movie/show/whatever". Stories are *incredibly important* to every single culture on earth, they're how we pass down values and truths about ourselves, they make up our cultural landscape, from fairy tales, bible stories, legends, myths, etc. Movies and tv shows and modern lit are a huuuge chunk of our cultural transmission, it's how we will prove to future generations that we were here, and show what was important to us.
The fact that our current cultural narrative still shows tons of minorities being shunted to the side or used as props for a white, able bodied man's story shows who we value more. It's not criticizing "just a movie" to see that, it's criticizing our culture. We have to change these things in tandem.
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This whole post is one of the many reasons I really cringe when people say things like "it's just a story/movie/show/whatever". Stories are *incredibly important* to every single culture on earth, they're how we pass down values and truths about ourselves, they make up our cultural landscape, from fairy tales, bible stories, legends, myths, etc. Movies and tv shows and modern lit are a huuuge chunk of our cultural transmission, it's how we will prove to future generations that we were here, and show what was important to us.
The fact that our current cultural narrative still shows tons of minorities being shunted to the side or used as props for a white, able bodied man's story shows who we value more. It's not criticizing "just a movie" to see that, it's criticizing our culture. We have to change these things in tandem.
ARGH.