Go read Roger Ebert's review of Transamerica. Transamerica is Hollywood's 450th movie about homosexuality and gender confusion this year. Of course, they’re all original, open-minded, long time coming and enlightened films.
While Ebert is marching the straight and narrow down the PC path and doing his duty, giving this film a great review, it's also astounding to see the amount of psychobabble, American bashing crap that's found in this review. It's really not fresh or amusing anymore, it's just obsolete and droll. Please scroll down to the part where Ebert solves the scientific debate of homosexuality’s origin. Ebert, the scientist, then goes on to agree with the theory that the people in this movie could never be accepted or treated decently by middle class Americans. You bunch of unenlightened working stiffs that, you know, pay his salary.
Going further down the PC trail to insanity Ebert also seems to endorse the concept that Mexicans and Indian-Americans have a genetic predisposition to open-mindedness. Huh? That's what you love about liberals like him; behavior that's considered immoral or unacceptable by some is not the fault of anyone because it's genetic. People other than Americans are open minded because it's genetic. Americans are judgmental because they're mean and narrow-minded. Hmm. How did we get exempted from the pattern? Can't we have standards about morality because it's genetic? Why does every other culture and lifestyle get a free pass for their misdeeds with these people but Americans get condemned?
Look Ebert. Next your out with Delta Burke and Kirstie Alley making the dollar menu at McDonalds ring like a pinball machine, stop and look around at those middle class Americans you seem to frown upon. They’re hard working, resilient and decent people. And they pay you and Hollywood big money to engage in some of the easiest jobs on the planet. So give us all a break with your condescending nonsense--if people in this country want to have standards of behavior and adhere to them, if they further believe these standards serve the society at large (and by large I don’t mean just Ebert, Burke and Alley) than that's their right. Their prerogative. What you call closed minded some call common decency some just call it their opinion. It's a cheap shot and intellectual dishonesty to paint everyone who disapproves of a certain behavior as closed-minded. What couldn't fall under that umbrella? Drug use, if you don't like it you’re just closed minded. After all, addiction is genetic; genetics makes it not your fault, which in turn makes it a lifestyle, which means it should be acceptable. This is the line of logic they use to excuse just about everything and to point fingers at those people that don't agree. Enough.
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