It's not the first time that kind of thing has happened on House either, though it sounds like it's the first time it's happened with someone so young (aside from that time Chase kissed the very young cancer patient, Cameron was the only one that looked appropriately shocked, but I had to make an angry face when they suggested the girl manipulated Chase into it). There was the episode where there was the 15-year-old model who was sexually abused by her father (again, only Cameron seemed offended at the jokes House was making) and again they made it seem like it was the 15-year-old's choice and idea and nothing got done.
It's like, yeah, I get that House is a jerk who says -ist things a lot, but in the beginning there was a lot more outrage over him saying these things, a lot more desire to show and prove that he was wrong. But it's no longer an "Archie Bunker" scenario where he says all the ignorant and hateful stuff, but it's very, very apparent that he's an IDIOT and the only people who really find it funny are the racist hateful people anyways. House is not an idiot, misanthropic, but he's smart enough to KNOW he's being offensive and is obviously doing it on purpose. It's not set up in a way that highlights or points out that what they are saying and/or doing is wrong anymore. It's very much a modicum for society now in that people don't really react or get outraged when they really should. :/ And more than that, the ones that do speak up are ridiculed for being over-emotional (IE - Cameron, back in the day).
So even if they are trying to set it up as a reflection of society, no one's going to get it, and it's part of the problem of those -ist attitudes being 'normalized', giving lots of people ammo to say 'well lots of people say it so that makes it okay' but it's NOT OKAY. It's especially not okay because it's basically people who have NOT been abused who are telling people who ARE how to feel.
I hope your letter has an impact. If we can't listen to the people who are truly affected by these offensive jokes, then there is a serious, serious problem.
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It's like, yeah, I get that House is a jerk who says -ist things a lot, but in the beginning there was a lot more outrage over him saying these things, a lot more desire to show and prove that he was wrong. But it's no longer an "Archie Bunker" scenario where he says all the ignorant and hateful stuff, but it's very, very apparent that he's an IDIOT and the only people who really find it funny are the racist hateful people anyways. House is not an idiot, misanthropic, but he's smart enough to KNOW he's being offensive and is obviously doing it on purpose. It's not set up in a way that highlights or points out that what they are saying and/or doing is wrong anymore. It's very much a modicum for society now in that people don't really react or get outraged when they really should. :/ And more than that, the ones that do speak up are ridiculed for being over-emotional (IE - Cameron, back in the day).
So even if they are trying to set it up as a reflection of society, no one's going to get it, and it's part of the problem of those -ist attitudes being 'normalized', giving lots of people ammo to say 'well lots of people say it so that makes it okay' but it's NOT OKAY. It's especially not okay because it's basically people who have NOT been abused who are telling people who ARE how to feel.
I hope your letter has an impact. If we can't listen to the people who are truly affected by these offensive jokes, then there is a serious, serious problem.