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re: No Hidden Figures Thread?
Posted on 3/3/17 at 9:41 pm to volod
Posted on 3/3/17 at 9:41 pm to volod
We're watching it right now and I'm trying hard to keep from laughing. They're laying it on so thick and it's so over the top... it's hilarious.
NASA is a bunch of bumbling idiots until these three women show them the way.
(Turns out that in 1961, no one at NASA had heard of IBM, even though the company had been working with the U.S. government since before World War II. "What's that room for? That's for the IBM! What's an IBM?")
NASA is a bunch of bumbling idiots until these three women show them the way.
(Turns out that in 1961, no one at NASA had heard of IBM, even though the company had been working with the U.S. government since before World War II. "What's that room for? That's for the IBM! What's an IBM?")
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Posted on 3/3/17 at 9:56 pm to Fewer Kilometers
It's bad.
NASA is two buildings.
30 white guys in one.
30 black girls in another.
And the white guys seem lost.
NASA was huge...and Hollywood admitted, they had to act like it was 3 black girls and a few white men...
and the girls contributed - this is not fiction. That's true.
But the movie is one of those amalgamations...to heighten the story and actually make it interesting...the people of the story have to be at every significant point in history and save the day...
Hollywood does this often with white famous people too. It's their thing they justify in making movies watchable.
No one is going to watch a movie where women do math.
So they make it seem that everything they do is pivotal to everything succeeding.
This story was such a blip in history - it's not even mentioned in anybody's history of NASA.
The girls were there and did the math...that's true...and I think I heard that Glenn did ask for her. So that is probably real.
I think what gets people is the white guys are all sheepish and dumb.
These are the people blacks were afraid of? Sheepish and stupid and stammering everytime they met a wise-talking black person?
How the frick did segregation ever exist?
Thats the dumb part. If you want to tell a story about racism and segregation show the reality of it.
NASA is two buildings.
30 white guys in one.
30 black girls in another.
And the white guys seem lost.
NASA was huge...and Hollywood admitted, they had to act like it was 3 black girls and a few white men...
and the girls contributed - this is not fiction. That's true.
But the movie is one of those amalgamations...to heighten the story and actually make it interesting...the people of the story have to be at every significant point in history and save the day...
Hollywood does this often with white famous people too. It's their thing they justify in making movies watchable.
No one is going to watch a movie where women do math.
So they make it seem that everything they do is pivotal to everything succeeding.
This story was such a blip in history - it's not even mentioned in anybody's history of NASA.
The girls were there and did the math...that's true...and I think I heard that Glenn did ask for her. So that is probably real.
I think what gets people is the white guys are all sheepish and dumb.
These are the people blacks were afraid of? Sheepish and stupid and stammering everytime they met a wise-talking black person?
How the frick did segregation ever exist?
Thats the dumb part. If you want to tell a story about racism and segregation show the reality of it.
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