So Darla....out of Curiosity....

LadyT said:
Did you get a chance to see "The Color Purple"?:)
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Yes. Well, first I’ll tell you this. I rarely rent movies, I usually just buy them. So I went to Borders and bought it for 25 bucks, but I had a 30 % coupon so it came to 18 something with tax, and I thought that was pretty good. So then two nights later I am in Costco and guess what, but they have it for 8.99. Yeah.

Anyway, I loved it! I really didn’t see how a woman would come out of there hating men, when it was all about women and the things they do for each other, and how they love each other. Also, on the second disc, they interviewed Alice Walker, and I have to say, that was well worth watching. (she addressed the idea that she “doesn’t like black men”) Also, Whoopi Goldberg was interviewed and she said that the protests against the film “cost us five years”. Us meaning black actors.
 
Darla said:
Yes. Well, first I’ll tell you this. I rarely rent movies, I usually just buy them. So I went to Borders and bought it for 25 bucks, but I had a 30 % coupon so it came to 18 something with tax, and I thought that was pretty good. So then two nights later I am in Costco and guess what, but they have it for 8.99. Yeah.

Anyway, I loved it! I really didn’t see how a woman would come out of there hating men, when it was all about women and the things they do for each other, and how they love each other. Also, on the second disc, they interviewed Alice Walker, and I have to say, that was well worth watching. (she addressed the idea that she “doesn’t like black men”) Also, Whoopi Goldberg was interviewed and she said that the protests against the film “cost us five years”. Us meaning black actors.
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hmmmph...

so I take it your boyfriend was in the dog house afterward though.
 
Surely you found a random relationship between TCP and Monster's Ball though?
 
LadyT said:
hmmmph...

so I take it your boyfriend was in the dog house afterward though.
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Oh no. He has actually read the book and he gave me a lot of the background on the controversy, and then he watched it with me, and then later that night we had sex.
 
Darla said:
Oh no. He has actually read the book and he gave me a lot of the background on the controversy, and then he watched it with me, and then later that night we had *&^%.
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I'm sorry but that's just impossible. According to Damo men were in the doghouse after seeing thismovie and that's just how it be.
 
I too loved the 'Color Purple', that doesn't negate this however:

http://www.rebeccawalker.com/article_2001_details-her-shifting-childhood.htm

It's personal, not generic.

ALICE WALKER'S DAUGHTER DETAILS HER 'SHIFTING' CHILDHOOD,
by Jennifer Frey, © The Washington Post, January 21, 2001




Rebecca Walker spent years forgetting her childhood. It wasn't difficult. All she had, really, were a series of fragments, partial memories. Different cities, different neighborhoods, different worlds.

Two years with her mother, Alice Walker, who left notes admonishing Rebecca to ``take care of yourself'' while she went about the all-consuming work of being a writer. Two years with her father, civil rights lawyer Mel Leventhal, who looked at her uncomprehendingly when she tried to explain how it felt to be the only black person in their upper-middle-class, predominantly Jewish suburb.

Years later, in her mid-20s, she sat down at her computer and tried to remember. The memories came like shards of glass, prompting tears, sorrow, anger.

``I really wanted my parents to understand what my life was like, and they just couldn't grasp it,'' says Rebecca Walker. ``I felt I needed to really show them in concrete terms what I had gone through. You want to be seen, you want to be known, you want to be understood especially by parents.''

Walker's book, Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, is as much about family as race or religion. In it, she unravels a childhood in which she tries to find her place as a child of the civil rights movement, a child whose parents divorced when she was 8 and then shuttled her back and forth between their two worlds.

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It really has nothing to do with it, at all. It’s kind of a personal attack against the author, and completely ad hominem. I read it when Bac posted it. The daughter made some statements in there that were false on their face (about feminism) and then claimed that feminism “has a lot to answer for”. She obviously has an agenda. Did you bother to even wonder if Alice Walker had a side to the story? Or does the anti-feminist agenda suit your own all too well, and you just weren’t curious?

Again, either way, this has zero to do with The Color Purple.
 
Darla said:
It really has nothing to do with it, at all. It’s kind of a personal attack against the author, and completely ad hominem. I read it when Bac posted it. The daughter made some statements in there that were false on their face (about feminism) and then claimed that feminism “has a lot to answer for”. She obviously has an agenda. Did you bother to even wonder if Alice Walker had a side to the story? Or does the anti-feminist agenda suit your own all too well, and you just weren’t curious?

Again, either way, this has zero to do with The Color Purple.
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Exactly. Even when BAC posted his sentiment regarding Spielberg, it still doesn't negate from the fact that this movie was about empowerment.
 
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