- long day of classes today, broken up by...reading for classes! but the weekend is fast approaching.
- had all the guys over tonight and made brownies and had good talks! circle of trust=good. roaches=bad.
- time to sleeeep and get ready for class tomorrow and then the closing of national suicide prevention week.
i am pretty sure the people in my film and culture class hate me. i always try to present the views of the place where i grew up and to try and bring some perspective to the class. but i think i just make enemies. we talked about american history x this week and everyone was just saying the same stuff over and over so i tried to just bring in a new viewpoint. obviously i'm not a skinhead, people. i just don't like when discussions are one-sided and boring and too liberal/unrealistic. so now i pissed those people off (but made excellent points, might i add). then today, i brought up the feminine role in the film and made the feminists of the class angry. but people were just saying stupid stuff about how the sister and mom were strong female figures and i totally disagreed! they never stood up to derek for more than a few minutes (before backing down), they totally ignored all his skinhead and racist ideology and practices, and after prison they took him back into their lives like nothing ever happened. and they tolerated the same bullshit from danny. i'm sorry, but i do not respect that, or see those women in a positive/strong feminine light. so now the feminists are angry at me. oh freakin' well. i feel that i made intelligent, thoughtful remarks and the teacher seemed to agree with/think about my points. and she is the one who ultimately assigns the grade.
The movie in question is w/o a doubt the most powerful film I've ever seen...particular the ending. I would hope that the classroom debate would be on edge, regardless of positions taken. If one watches that movie and basically has no strong emotional reaction, then they do not understand this america...america in this case being the ignored, hostile, brutal america that most Americans would prefer to not acknowledge. Let us blissfully skip along in our comfortable world refusing to believe/accept the brutal reality of conditions that exit only miles from our safe and protected world.
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