ISRIERI'S PROFILE

author=Yellow Magic
How does one change things 'from within'? Can a bigoted mind ever change?

I admit to having conflicting feelings in regard to transgender topics. I'm trying to challenge my assumptions made in solitude with empathy, thus why I'm reading the thread.

No one who knows me in real life would ever call me bigoted or racist, but that doesn't mean I don't have thoughts like that sometimes. There's likely not a person in the world who hasn't at one point daydreamed of bad things. Or who knows what else. But you aren't a murderer unless you actually go out and do it. Similarly, you aren't a bigiot if you don't act in a bigoted manner. Thoughts and emotions can be controlled. You can check yourself. Actions can't be taken back.

So on the flipside of what Feld is saying: People who might be "only pretending" to not be racist could just as equally be knowingly quelling their racist thoughts out of sympathy and understanding toward those whom they might offend. Or recognize that their thoughts are just thoughts and not the truth. Its a matter of whether the person understands the reasons for why they're doing it.

I think its impossible and futile to try and eliminate stereotypes or stop people from making assumptions or generalizations. Because that's what you'd have to do to completely eradicate racism and the like. But you can raise people to know themselves and take responsibility for their thoughts and feelings. And the first step to do that is to do so with yourself. Accept blame for your own failings and don't try to shift it onto outside influences. Or worse still: Pretend they aren't there.

So the solution is to make people better parents.

Most of the people who are trying to learn are those who are lurking, and refraining from posting.

If someone thinks that a topic is pointless they shouldn't be in the thread they don't care about decrying it's pointlessness.

The only reason I can think of for one to do so is that the existence of such a thread aggravates them for whatever reason. I know I've certainly done that before so I don't automatically think that anyone who does so is a prick: Sometimes pointless arguing gets on your nerves. But this is a sensitive topic to some folks and should be given a measure of care.

So I don't know what Sated's point is. Other than ideological difference. In which case, what can you do?

author=Sooz

author=Seiromem
Playing GameDev Tycoon.

Made a Vitrual Pet Casual game named Grappi
10, 10, 9, 10 and now I'm a millionaire!
Thanks RMN

holy shit y'all

You really should just make a simple game of that, Sooz, I swear you'll be rolling in it all the way to the bank. Hell, look at Five Nights at Freddy's yo. Gotta give the public what they want: Something they didn't know they wanted.

What does it mean to be "more adult" than someone else your age? because that's the question that comes to mind when I read the thread title.

Pirates of the Caribbean 1 & 2 are the most fun I've ever had at the movie theater. Ever.

If I ever get around to seeing Fury Road that might be able to topple them.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame has one of the best scores in the Disney lineup and everything from the characters to the background art is so well done and amazing and wonderful except for those three gargoyles. But hey, Disney has to have comic relief, its in the contract. And they could have been worse, for sure.

But my favorite movie as of right this moment, huh?

I love love LOVE A Knight's Tale. I have a soft spot for buddy-buddy roadtrip movies. But put it in an anachronistic medieval era and I'm like a teenage girl at a boy band concert. The reason I didn't like The Hangover is because this movie exists and it is ten thousand times better. Its not stupid comedy, its fun comedy. One might even say, family friendly comedy. Also knights! Jousting! Rivalries! Tearful reunions! Naked men trudging the desolate wilderness! Gambling! Toggles! Patents of Nobility!

I've seen so many good movies they all kind of run together, if I'm to be honest. Hard to pick one out. I was gonna mention Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan and The Truman Show and No Country For Old Men and Toy Story and....you get the idea. But DOY everyone knows those are good.

I will say I liked There Will Be Blood head and shoulders more than No Country. The desolation and character study of Plainview resonated with me in a way the latter film did not.