HOW DARE HIM!!!

Someone responded to my Discussion Board Posting in my Sci-Fi Class Disagreeing With me! Motherfucker!

Here was the Question:

It is commonly assumed that to study race means to study representations of peoples of color only, but whites are a race, too. Keeping that in mind, how have SF films helped construct the meaning and value of “whiteness” over time? Cite examples to illustrate your argument.

My Perfect Responce:

Science Fiction has always had a love affair with Caucasians. They almost are always the hero or savior. Take for instance, The Matrix; while having a strong non-Caucasian primary cast, the hero is white. Everyone’s salvation rested on this little white boy, while everyone else only could hope to reach a fraction of his potential. This is also in ‘Night of the Living Dead’ (1990); while the black male is more powerful, he can’t compete with the lead female’s whiteness; thus she becomes the hero in the end.

I believe that there is a huge, and unfair, imbalance in the way whites are shown on film compared to other races; I believe that a slightly modified tag line from Alien sums up my point: “In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream – Unless they are white, because they are coming to rescue you.”

His Slight Disagreement:

I think that my classmate is right to a degree in his answer of "Whiteness" in the Sci Fi genre. He stated that the movies are in love with the White man and used examples. I think that the in some movies the white man has been made out to be the hero i.e. The Thing, Them, Tarantula, but they were made the heroes because that was what Hollywood believed at the time. Hollywood, at the time, in my opinion was a very closed society, letting only who they chose to be the IN crowd. This is where I start to disagree with my classmate because I think that the Matrix strong lead was actually the black actor. Without Morpheus finding and guiding Neo through the Matrix he would have never become the hero that he did. The Night of the Living Dead example is very true and right on with its analysis, but if you look a film further The Dawn of the Dead, the hero and the ultimate savior of the survivors is the black lead. This movie was written and directed by the same man. So if he were in love with the white lead why would he make the black lead the hero. I think that my classmate makes good points, but I think that the Sci Fi genre is a place where the black or minority actor has always had an influence.

This Isn't over BITCH! I'm going to have to respond to this, and tear it apart!

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Oh also my Sci-Fi Teacher brought her 'Life-partner'... doesn't that make you laugh when you say it? Life Partner. LoL. It sounds like something from a Sci-fi movie would say. But i guess tards don't want us to use Wife or Husband. Well her Life-Parnter/Wife/Snicker-doodle/ect (i think) was there; i hope it was her love partner, her carpet cleaner, her hoover vac, her... well you get the point. She brought her a sack lunch to the movie, so i'm guessing that is her love mate, her anything but a wife according to asshats, her... i think i ran out of stuff. Anyways, our sci-fi teacher was way hotter then her sugar bear, well as better looking as she could get without being a man :). (<-- I'm going to hell for that one)

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Also the Tulsa World, ran two guys as fathers to a kid in there births section.

Congrats Daryn and Jonathan on your little boy.

I heard that they also ran two lesbains as parents, but i missed that, so glad SODA emailed me telling me to keep a look out today.