Is Political Correctness only for "The IN Crowd"? Or can us geeks get memberships too?

Well, I've seen the sucker twice now and loved it each time! Before I leave to see it a 3rd time, I'm fixing up a better review of it that I'll probably post tomorrow. It may be filled with spoilers, but if you haven't seen it yet, GET WITH THE PROGRAM!!!!

Now I want to move on to a topic that I've been mulling over for a while. Something I've noticed on a lot of the media during the anticipation of Ep.III is that there was a lot of anti-fandom humor flowing freely from many comedians, talk show hosts, radio personalities and other media darlings. It wasn't quite as scathing as it has been in the past, but it was still presant.

Now, I'm not gunna cry like a baby about it. At times I can laugh at myself and others I know when a couple of these jokes come out. But once in a blue moon I do have to roll my eyes in frustration when people like Harvard frat boy turned late night talk show host, Conan O'Brien, tells his umpteenth, "you Star Wars and Lord of the Rings fans live in your moms' basements and will die alone" schtick again and again. You don't hear him making any racial slurs, anti gay humor or handicap jokes, do you?

Though I do admit that we can make ourselves easy targets, I still find it hypocritical when the supposedly liberal media and Hollywood are at one moment preaching tolerance for all races, creeds, handicaps, religions (Well, a few of them. At least Kaballa and Scientology) sexualities and other precieved oddities. Then as soon as a genre based film makes big news, everybody is going out of their way to point and laugh and take away our joy about the event.

I don't want to get all PC and silly about it, but look, If you want to make fun of us in the media, go for it. But you have to then level things out and allow shows like South Park or the quasi-defunct Shapple Show get away with what they do without some socio-political group getting up and whinning about it! Either the media should cow-tow to the politically correct police and make fun of absolutley no one, or make fun of ABSOLUTLEY everybody! And I mean NOTHING is taboo AT ALL! Either be tollerant of everybody or take a whiz on everybody. Choose one or the other, but enough with the whole, "We can't make fun of gays, minorities or the handicapped, but if someone is in line to see the next Star Wars movie, it's open season!"

That's my soapbox of the moment.

Zangz.