Nov 19, 2013

He's raving. Pay him no mind.

The whole "don't go see Ender's Game because Card's a homophobe" strikes me as odd and a bit shortsighted for a few reasons.

If the intention was to deprive Card from making any money off this film, he's got nothing riding on it. He sold the rights to the film, and he's making no royalties off of it. Granted, if there was such an outcry that the studio says "ok, we won't make the sequel" then maybe he wouldn't make any money off of that one.

More fundamentally, do you really think you should not read or see media by people who hold questionable values? You can go ahead and burn A Christmas Carol, and Oliver Twist, and avoid seeing any movies or staged productions related to them- Dickens was noted for his hobby of photographing prepubescent children nude. For something more contemporary, don't see or rent the critically acclaimed The Pianist or Chinatown: Director Polanski is still on the lam for the statutory rape of a 13 year old. And these are the kinds of things that everyone agrees are egregious- we're not even talking about remotely debatable. Should you not buy Ford cars or acknowledge contributions to industry because Henry Ford was rabidly anti-Semitic?

Lastly, the "activism by default" is pretty pathetic. If your only contribution to the Gay Rights movement is not going to see a movie, and then bragging about it on Facebook like you're righteously advocating change, that's spectacularly pathetic. It's worse than the people who stick yellow magnetic ribbons on their cars to show support for US troops.

As usual, I'm not even preaching to the choir- the choir threw up their hands and left ten minutes ago- I'm railing at an empty corner of the church.

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