sorry for my original post. i can see that i was wrong
Following r/thesims is so funny because sometimes you just scroll by, do a double-take, realize what forum it belongs to, and let out a breath of relief
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Remember The Blind Side starring Sandra Bullock? The movie showed how a kid who had an extremely rough upbringing got help from the family of a school friend, found success in football and ultimately ended up being adopted by the family. Turns out he was never adopted.
Michael Oher says that he was tricked by the Tuohy family into signing documents that made them his conservators. Since he was already 18 at the time the family told him, “that it means pretty much the exact same thing as 'adoptive parents,' but that the laws were just written in a way that took [his] age into account.”
Oher also says that papers were signed so that his story and likeness were given away for free to use in The Blind Side. He also never got a single royalty check for the hugely successful, Oscar nominated film in the 14 years since its release.
It just continues to baffle me that they essentially purchased a young Black man's life to make football money off of, like buying a racing horse, except a person. Like, I don't know how else to say it. And then made everyone think it was something wonderful they did to "save" an "impoverished, Black boy", and he's been saying it for years to no avail that they took advantage of him!
It makes perfect sense when you learn how white people have used the black body to their advantage for centuries. This story and film hasn’t sat right with me almost since it came out so I’m not surprised, but I am deeply saddened for Oher's experience of being taken advantage of.
The article gets into this, but the movie's also super fucking gross in how it portrays Oher and his life.
For one thing, it chose to portray him as a slow kid who got into the private high school he graduated from because the Tuohys showed the football coach how, uh, big and athletic he was. In reality, he was a smart kid who impressed the principal of the school by demonstrating academic focus despite his chaotic home life. This change is so straightforwardly racist that I don't even feel the need to elaborate on it.
The movie also decided to make the Tuohys the ones who introduce Oher to football, even though in reality he already knew how to play and was already excelling in the high school's team before ever meeting the Tuohys. This change is honestly fucking bizarre. It's like the Tuohys felt like their white savior fantasy wouldn't be complete unless it was literally complete, totalizing, with themselves directly responsible for every aspect of Oher's success.
Anyway, Oher's taking the Tuohys to court; here's hoping he can finally get what's his. He also has a book out.
Extremely rare woman's tie in muslin embroidered with blue flowers and branches. Shaped with Ariadne's thread covered with sky blue silk. Identical choker closed by a hook.
1832-1833
Not true!
Wake up babe new tag yourself dropped
Really lucky a mongermonger turned up to help with this post.
lawmonger i use that to cut the grass
“Abolish Golf”
Sticker spotted in Chicago, Illinois.
A typical golf course uses 200 million gallons of water a year. There are over 16,300 golf courses in the United States.
That's nuts.
Ngl I hate golf and I'm all for this. They put a golf course in our public park at the expense of hundreds of centuries-old live oak trees. Half of the walk around the park you're just looking at an empty golf course. Like 2 people want to play golf. So annoying.
Golf was a game developed in Scotland, where it rains up to 250 days of the year, and where the courses use very hard-wearing grass. The sand in the bunkers is because it used to be played on the coast - these traditional courses are called "Links" courses. The top Links course in Scotland, Royal Dornoch, uses no mains water at all. They have their own rainwater collection system.
It wasn't originally intended to be played in the middle of a desert on lush green turf that takes thousands of gallons of water a day to maintain. Unless you can keep the course alive using only rainwater collection, it shouldn't exist.
Seriously though the way the conservationist teachers at a natural reserve were literally telling us that golf courses use fertilisers and chemicals to make the grasses extra green which flow into the river and affect the native species by messing with the place and then just left it at that?
like why aren't you rioting? i get that it's not affecting the ecosystem now but it's definitely building up to affect it later?
Why do humans procastinate on problems even as a collective? We know it's gonna be harder later, we know it's better to do it now to save us a many other organisms, and we don't even have the excuse of being one person with shitty decisions cause there's like hundreds of people in power just letting the decision slide the
i could never have a tail because i would be swangin that shit like crazy. ohhh i love this pottery museum theres so many awesome pots. dont pet my head or ill cause millions in damages