We're Past All That: What's Ten Million Among Friends?

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

What's Ten Million Among Friends?

The Sony hacks have apparently revealed that Charlize Theron was set to make 10 million dollars less than her male counter part in an upcoming movie.

Obviously this was simply an egregious oversight, because as soon as she pointed out to Sony that we are actually past all that, they immediately corrected their mistakes. I'm sure a few cynics think it's because they got caught, but obviously they wouldn't intentionally pay women ten MILLION dollars less for the same work.

Because we're past all that.

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If it isn't clear, We're Past All That is entirely satire. As we tackle the new face of bigotry in the form of unexamined privilege and double standards, the worst obstacle is the narrative that it is merely a few crazy outliers who are still overtly racist/sexist/homophobic/etc... The defense of one example might be cogent, but as the stories pile on it becomes more and more absurd not to consider it part of a larger systematic problem that is still live and well, and I hope this caricature persona illustrates that.

Obviously to give examples regularly of outright racism, misogyny, homophobia, and such, there will be some alarming stories linked. This is not a safe space, and some stories may be so incendiary as to be triggering.