You all have the right to protest your views for/against something, the right to try to educate others and the right to leave a theater if offended but NEVER the right to tell others what they are allowed to see.

Oh and also you must be aware that any attempt to publicly boycott this film will only result in a higher interest for it and will only serve to propel it to number one faster. Whereas if you had been able to shrug it off the film and offending word would have been forgotten much more quickly.

http://www.r-word.org/

Joe

And the truth of the matter is that some will think that using that word and that plot point in that movie is funny and not making fun of the mentally challenged, because they don’t get the hurtfulness of it. They may even think, like above, that it is somehow helping the society’s view of the intellectually disabled. It is not helping – helping is respecting, accepting, loving and caring for them.

Tammy, thank you for your post and I wish the best to you and your family, especially Parker.

Tammy and the rest of us understand very clearly that the movie intended to make fun of Hollywood actors and that “the entire movie is a parody of the stupid things that actors will do to obtain a gold statuette.”

The problem is that while using satire to make their point about stupid actors, they used hateful language and vulgar humor to make fun of innocent people.

The laughs are at the expense of the intellectually disabled as well as at actors. And the problem is that the intellectually disabled cannot afford to have those blows against them, whereas actors are at no risk of suffering.

I’m so sorry you even have to spend time and energy fighting for this. How could the people involved in the movie not know that this is unacceptable?????

As insignificant as it might be, two more people (my husband and I) won’t support this movie (and that is because of your post). I wasn’t aware – thanks for the warning, I would have been disgusted if I wasted my time and money seeing such crap.

I agree that the t-shirts are ridiculous! Was the use of the phrase ‘retard’ necessary? No, they probably could have used another term but the whole point was to show how someone with disdain for the challenged will use them to try to get an award. Many actors portray mentally and physically challenged people in movies and TV. Maybe we should be asking why we consider it acceptable that they play these roles rather than use those with the real challenges?

If you take this movie for what it was really meant to be – a complete parody on the movie industry – rather than an attack on the challenged, you’ll see that the message isn’t an attack at all.