I suspect musicals are simply a love it or hate it kind of thing--no in between. So for everyone like me, there has to be someone on the other side. I guess that's you!
Well, the working class people are usually busy working, and they tend to dislike people who can also be working, but aren't. That probably says a lot about it, right there. As for the color changing, I usually think it's a dumb thing, but it really didn't bother me in "Hamilton". The other time I remember not minding is the comic book character Nick Fury--who was a white Army sergeant when I was reading him in comic books, but became a black secret agent in the Marvel movies. Now I can't picture anyone else playing that part. But yes, I think that crowd is going too far, which is what a lot of people predicted when they began pushing various issues to begin with. Turns out that "slippery slope" thing is real, and it's getting awfully slippery here in the States. I'd really like to find a compromise and stick with it, but nobody's in the mood to compromise over anything here.
Well, I'm not sure where my musical allergy comes from, but it's nothing recent. Thinking about it, I already cringed when they started singing in the old movies, with Fred Astair, Doris Day and so on. This could ruin a perfectly good comedy movie for me, because it makes things look surreal somehow.
It may be a completly different feeling to watch a musical live on stage, because that gives it a entirely different context. May be - I never been to such a show yet.
Yes, that political correctness hype is getting totally out of hand. Here in Germany its not so much the race thing, but the gender equality pushing.
You perhaps know that in the German language gender plays a important role, different to the English language. Lots of words have a gendering prefix like "der" (m) or "die" (f). That makes a tree male: "der Baum", and a castle female "die Burg". I know, this may seem weird - but its even sillier to try to tweek this into a political correct form, so that every thing could be male or female at the same time. To make things worse, there are now people demanding that there are other gender options that need to be catered for.
Yeah, the slippery slope is slowly turning into a black hole, from which there is no escape whatever you do.
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Ah, Fred Astair! I mean, yeah--ruined. ;-)
I was actually in three musicals in addition to seeing several, and it is different--but I think musicals in general are "you like it or hot it" kind of things. I was referring in my column to a Canadian friend who absolutely loathes musicals. What the heck, we all have our things.
German sounds like Spanish in that way--masculine and feminine versions of words, and such. It's getting ridiculous with the hoops they're jumping in English, so I can only imagine the problems the PC crowd is having over there.
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Well, I don't feel like wanting to spend a lot of money to see a proper live musical. They show mainly in the big cities, like Berlin, Hamburg and so on, so its quiete a job for me to go there. And that was even in normal times - I don't know if they are open at all now, with the Covid scare and all.
Yeah, it is pretty crazy with the remodelling of the language to make it PC. Just as crazy as some other stuff that is criticized, thing that were appearantly wrong for decades, without anybody noticing it.
Some you may have heard as well, like the movie "Gone With The Wind" being racist, or the "Tom&Jerry" cartoons. It wouldn't surprise me if Twain's "Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn" needs to be censored soon, too.
Here in Germany some companies had to rename products already, to avoid being boycotted by activists.
There are some words for black people that cannot be used any longer, like the oldfashioned word "Mohr". A chocolate manufacturer, Sarotti, had a trade mark for hundred years or so - but now they are getting so much flak for it that they consider to change it:
Another issue was caused by those:
Forever and a day those were called "Negerküsse" (negro kisses) - not any longer! The manufacturers had to come up with some silly replacement names, to avoid getting hassled. May be someone should have told the PC guardians that "negro" is just the spanish word for black...
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Yeah, Broadway's shut down--the cast of "Hamilton" has been getting together to do singalongs online.
Those Negerkusse's look delicious! I'd try it whatever the name. Over hear we have a brand of butter that's had a Native American woman on the packaging for many decades, and now she's gone, leaving only the landscape behind. So the joke is, once more white men kicked out the Indians and kept their land! I'll bet anything that if the company removed her without saying anything about it, the PC types would be attacking them for that, too.
As for Mark Twain, various people, libraries, and groups have been trying to ban his works ever since he first wrote them.
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I guess such events are closed here as well, especially since things are going south again and new restrictions are being issued. Its all drifting towards a new total lockdown again. Well, at least I have enough toiletpaper this time.
Negerküsse are delicious! Only, they are for calories what white dwarf suns are for matter - extremely high density on a small space.
I wonder if you can't find them in the US, I think they would fit the taste quiete well. Its a thin wafer as a base with white, soft, foamy... stuff on it. I don't know what it actually is made of, but lots of sugar is in it for sure. And then the whole thing is coated very thin with choclate.
I just checked, you can get them - but only really expensive:
https://www.germanshop24.com/sweets/perishables/super-dickmanns-9-pack/
In Germany they cost about $2, for the box of 9.
Yes, I know Twain was much criticized - but mainly for the opposite reasons. Well, and because he was not a big fan of the church, politicians ect.
Someone who demands to ban his books for racism just shows that he has not understood what he said. It wouldn't surprise me if some of those people have not even read his books.
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Oh, I suppose I'll pass on those things--the last thing I need is still another high calorie treat I'm supposed to be avoiding!
Mark Twain poked fun at politicians a lot, so I'm a big fan. His most banned book is "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", which has a lot of talk about slavery and throws the "N" word around a lot. Of course, anyone who actually reads it discovers it's an ANTI-slavery story, but everyone's too busy getting attention by being offended to realize that.
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Well, its only a matter of giving it the right label, I guess. Instead of calling it "eating sweets", call it "discovering german culture". And there is much to discover... :)
I often have the impression that many so called "activists" have no clue about what they are complaining about. Its just a way of avoiding being a nobody.
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Sometimes when you're young you just want to rebel, and don't much care what you're rebelling against. Organizers take full advantage of that, unfortunately.
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