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Holy crap, there are multiple offers for every single fandom I requested. Regardless of anything else, this means there are multiple people in the world who have read these books. I LOVE YOU GUYS. I LOVE YULETIDE.

Date: 2013-10-15 03:03 pm (UTC)
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It is an interesting movie. You know, John Wayne's movies were way less likely to have racist stuff in them than your average movie of his day? This is the only one I can think of where the main message of the film is RACISM IS BAD, but he'd regularly have characters of color playing against stereotypes. Like McClintock, where in one subplot we're supposed to root for the Native American college-educated man trying to date a white woman instead of the white man trying to keep his sister from dating an Indian, and in another supblot we're supposed to root for the Indians instead of the US Cavalry. Sure, most of the Indians are just as ridiculous as most of the white characters, but they're still the good guys when they come into conflict with white people. Or take Rio Bravo, in which the innkeeper is a cheerful but fairly stereotypical Mexican ... who is also the only townsperson to show up to help Sheriff John Wayne take out the rich bad guy who's been terrorizing the town.

I loved John Wayne movies growing up, but that's one of the things that keeps me loving them now that I'm an adult.

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