Does anyone think Viola Davis was robbed of her Oscar?

[Anonymous]

The book panders to white people and black apologists. The movie was cringe-worthy. But Viola Davis should get it for having to dress in a maid's costume and make white people feel good about themselves in 2012.

[Anonymous]

Viola Davis should have gotten it...rather^^

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meryl Streep just donated $10,000 in honor of Viola Davis to a charter school in the Rhode Island town where Viola Davis grew up. I am sure that will provide more fodder for debate.

She made the donation before the Oscars, so no one can claim it was a consolation prize.

So, that's why she got the Oscar. Huh. Politics. And 10k? Please, Did Viola ask her to do this? Otherwise, this comes under the heading of "stealing someone else's thunder". !0k is chump chand to the likes of a Streep. She does seem like this very genuine person--but to donate chump change to your "opponent" charter school BEFORE the Oscars, wow that's just too manipulative. And don't say: no good deed goes unpunished, because whatever--if she had given 100k, that would have been meaningful. What can a school really do with 10k? Buy a few flashy computers to distract the kids with? Pish-posh.

Meryl and Viola are friends and Meryl donated the money because Viola spoke to her of the school's plight.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh god, the whole freaking movie was racist IMO. "The Help" was a freaking white woman. Ugh. Does no one see how awful this book was? The whole thing makes me so uncomfortable. The way that everyone was patting themselves on the back for giving Octavia Spencer the Oscar was so cringe-inducing...the standing ovation...when really they were just applauding themselves for being magnanimous enough to give a black woman an Oscar. Ick ick ick.

I am not the only person who feels this way, am I?

No you aren't. I am conflicted. The focus of the movie makes the white woman the hero. I cringed. It was like I was reliving the horror of "Ridin' Miss Daisy " all over again. Our culture is really most comfortable with de-sexualized black women who can cook some good fried chicken. I am a northern white woman, btw.

Driving.

Driving.

No one was "Ridin'" that petrified cootchie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh god, the whole freaking movie was racist IMO. "The Help" was a freaking white woman. Ugh. Does no one see how awful this book was? The whole thing makes me so uncomfortable. The way that everyone was patting themselves on the back for giving Octavia Spencer the Oscar was so cringe-inducing...the standing ovation...when really they were just applauding themselves for being magnanimous enough to give a black woman an Oscar. Ick ick ick.

I am not the only person who feels this way, am I?

No you aren't. I am conflicted. The focus of the movie makes the white woman the hero. I cringed. It was like I was reliving the horror of "Ridin' Miss Daisy " all over again. Our culture is really most comfortable with de-sexualized black women who can cook some good fried chicken. I am a northern white woman, btw.

Driving.

Driving.

No one was "Ridin'" that petrified cootchie.

Lol. Sorry. My bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meryl Streep just donated $10,000 in honor of Viola Davis to a charter school in the Rhode Island town where Viola Davis grew up. I am sure that will provide more fodder for debate.

She made the donation before the Oscars, so no one can claim it was a consolation prize.

So, that's why she got the Oscar. Huh. Politics. And 10k? Please, Did Viola ask her to do this? Otherwise, this comes under the heading of "stealing someone else's thunder". !0k is chump chand to the likes of a Streep. She does seem like this very genuine person--but to donate chump change to your "opponent" charter school BEFORE the Oscars, wow that's just too manipulative. And don't say: no good deed goes unpunished, because whatever--if she had given 100k, that would have been meaningful. What can a school really do with 10k? Buy a few flashy computers to distract the kids with? Pish-posh.

Meryl and Viola are friends and Meryl donated the money because Viola spoke to her of the school's plight.

Well then, in the words of Rosann Rosannadanna: "Never mind."

[Anonymous]

No, I think Rooney Mara was robbed.

I thought she did a much better job that Viola or Meryl.