Dude screw reddit… I should have quit July 1st when they took away my boost for reddit 3party app… but I couldn’t stand FB discussion which is deluded with terrorist claiming to be Christians and Republicans… I can’t stand the boners they get for any cop video… So I tried going back to reddit… then the ban came… I searched around and some how found lemmy… and I am glad I did. I like it here better. I like that it’s new too
If their movies from that era weren’t a good enough insight…
John Wayne was a racist sexist POS and it shows in all his Westerns . Most mobster movies objectified a specific group as less than… while glorified another… even though their actions were just as messed up.
women and people of color were on the bottom barrel of being treated decently in these movies… How many scenes are there of men slapping a woman and then passionately kissing her as she hits him to stop…but it does nothing to him and she suddenly succumbs to his ‘charm’. it was a popular trope…
But I am sure those were only movies and not indicative of how white men actually viewed life. Its not like they were trying to capture an audience in relevancy